When we think about securing the participation of all students in the use of high performance computing (HPC) and encouraging their informed use of the Teragrid,and other emerging technologies, we must think of the hurdles that students have to vault to achieve any kind of proficiency in the use of technology and to be involved in just science, math and engineering. … [Read more...]
STEM a Moving and Thinking Experience.. at the SITE Conference
There was a conducted bus tour on STEM at the SITE conference, it was fully subscribed and we visited schools of STEM interest in Clark County, Las Vegas. The school system helped us share STEM practices in the US. STEM? STEM has become a common acronym, particularly among policy advocates and government officials, for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, an on STEM education and competitiveness is Rising Above the Gathering Storm from the National Academies Press. … [Read more...]
Youth and ICT as Agent of Change
Leveling the Playing Field for Youth Using Technology in a Flat World Youth and ICT as Agents of Change There was an extraordinary conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. … [Read more...]
Social Networking and Collaborative Communications
For months I have been studying what I thought were new technologies to find that in the education world the social networking was all the rage. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century … [Read more...]
International Ideas and News – One World
I have just sent a niece off to Tanzania. When I made my first trip to Southern Africa, to Namibia I was struck by several people in the audience that looked just like her.When you only know Africa from the National Geographic, and from the depictions in the press you can have some very wrong ideas about the cultures, the countries and people in general. … [Read more...]