The article discusses how STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education resources can be implemented in to public libraries and services for teenagers. The author notes that with an increased importance placed on STEM subjects, it is important for librarians to consider resources and programs for students beyond what they typically offer. The article lists suggested ways librarians can integrate STEM into public library work, including introducing STEM resources to students when visiting schools, promoting STEM programs to parents and educators, and creating STEM booklists
The article discusses ways racial and ethnic minorities are excluded from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. According to the article, the lack of minority STEM professionals in industries is blamed on their less rigorous early educational experience, lack of mentors and difficult work environment. Library staff can help alleviate many of these disadvantages through teacher education and thoughtful programming for students in a professional environment.
The article discusses the Helen M. Marshall Children's Library Discovery Center in Jamaica, New York. The resource center is designed to encourage science learning, reflect the cultural aspects of Queens, New York, and allow students to engage in science experiments. Exhibits mentioned in the article include bug observations, color mixing, and using touch sensors to identify objects. Other topics discussed by the author include incorporating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education, library outreach programs, and teenagers on the library staff.
The article discusses how STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education will affect the work of teen librarians and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). According to the article, YALSA created a STEM task force whose objectives include developing a list of recommended reading related to STEM, compiling STEM resources online, and creating a "STEM in Libraries" toolkit.
The article examines how school library programs are uniquely suited to initiate innovative thinking on how to leverage resources such as science fiction to help young people see the value of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in their daily lives. The authors report on the Sci-Dentity project launched in January 2012 which involves the collaboration between researchers and librarians at the University of Maryland in designing ways to incorporate sci-fi to STEM.
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Mega SubramaniamAmanda WaughJune AhnAllison Druin
The article discusses strategies for public libraries to offer programs and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and activity programs. The author comments on how public libraries can partner with businesses to offer STEM resources to library patrons and strengthen the role public libraries play in terms of education in their communities. Topics include the possibility of public libraries learning from science fairs to incorporate displays and nonfiction book lists that promote science, as well as strategies to organize nonfiction book holdings.
Multimodal technologies are creating new experiential opportunities for exploring, tinkering, learning and interacting in the virtual world. Once combined with sensorial objects and open-ended activities in the physical world, they introduce a new genre of interactive environments called ThinkeringSpace. ThinkeringSpace is a hybrid system - made of networked and remotely accessible physical environments - that seeks to bring school-age children together to collaborate face-to-face and tinker with things, both physical and virtual, reflect upon what they do and discover, and elaborate their
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Heloisa MouraDale FahnstromGreg PrygrockiT.J. McLeish
This paper identifies the need for developing new ways to study curiosity in the context of today's pervasive technologies and unprecedented information access. Curiosity is defined in this paper in a way which incorporates the concomitant constructs of interest and engagement. A theoretical model for curiosity, interest and engagement in new media technology-pervasive learning environments is advanced, taking into consideration personal, situational and contextual factors as influencing variables. While the path associated with curiosity, interest, and engagement during learning and research
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Marilyn ArnoneRuth SmallSarah ChaunceyH. McKenna
We present a review of an after-school program that has been running at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York for the past 5 years. The program is unique among after-school activities for high school students in several ways. First, it deliberately focuses on students who do not excel in science and math courses and students who are unsure about a college career. Second, it targets typically underrepresented minorities in the technology fields, namely blacks, Hispanics, and women. Third, it introduces these students to high-tech career options which do not require
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Amy BieberPaul MarcheseDon Engelberg
This study was designed to examine the impact of participating in an after-school robotics competition on high school students' attitudes toward science. Specifically, this study used the Test of Science-Related Attitude to measure students' social implications of science, normality of scientists, attitude toward scientific inquiry, adoption of scientific attitudes, enjoyment of science lessons, leisure interest in science, and career interest in science. Results indicated that students who participated in a robotic competition had a more positive attitude toward science and science-related
As the global economic competition gets tougher, American policymakers and researchers are interested in finding ways to increase the number of students pursuing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-related majors in order for the United States to continue its role as an economic powerhouse. A survey study was employed to investigate a multi-charter school system's (Harmony Public Schools [HPS]) after-school program in which doing a science fair project was expected for all 4th-12th grade students, and students were encouraged to participate STEM-related clubs (MATHCOUNTS
Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to educate these students more equitably. This study examines how girls of diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds perceived the characteristics of one such intervention program as inspiring the development of greater confidence in their mathematics skills. This article explains the similarities and differences of the perceptions of each group, as well as the