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1. NSF Video Hall & Spanish Family Code Night: ETR Makes a Movie!
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By David Manuel Torres | June 13, 2019
Every year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) hosts a unique virtual event—a week-long STEM for All Video Showcase. In the videos, Principal Investigators, practitioners and researchers describe federally funded projects that seek to improve and innovate within STEM education. The brief videos are posted and viewed globally. This year, I joined up with ETR Senior Research Scientist Jill Denner and Senior Editor Marcia Quackenbush to create an ETR video for the NSF showcase.
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2. High School Youth Design Innovative Tech Solutions for Better Mental Health
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By Laiah Idelson, MSPH | June 4, 2019
What happens when a motivated, creative group of high school juniors and seniors is asked, “How might we use technology to create an innovative solution to improve the mental health of young people?”
To answer this question, our team conducted nine workshops from January through April this year. Seventy-seven juniors and seniors at De Anza High School in Richmond, CA, joined in.
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3. Research-Practice Partnerships: Sharing Data Where It Matters
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By David Manuel Torres | May 13, 2019
For most people, “data” is a four-letter word—not many enjoy looking at distributions and comparing percentages. Even fewer like to do so at the end of an hour-long meeting on a Tuesday morning. It’s data. If you’re not into statistics, it can be confusing. It isn’t always clear how it’s going to be useful in the real world.
Still, there are times when data need to be discussed.
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4. 8 Tips for Creating a Digital Badging System: Recognize, Encourage and Affirm Youth Who Build Tech Skills
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By Shannon Campe | March 4, 2019
What do you know about badges? I’m not talking about the patch you sew on your Girl Scout vest when you’ve completed your Space Science Explorer requirements. I’m talking about digital badges that people can share widely online.
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5. STEM Education and Youth Who are Disabled: We're Overdue for Inclusivity
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By Linda Kekelis, PhD | December 11, 2018
Advisor, STEM Next Opportunity FundWe need to build greater diversity in STEM education. Like a lot of my colleagues, I’ve worked to create programs welcoming more girls and youth of color into STEM. We’ve made good progress, and we are creating positive momentum.
But one group that continues to be overlooked, even within strong and established programs, is youth who are disabled.
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6. Equity in STEM: It Takes More Than Individual Determination
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By Louise Ann Lyon, PhD | October 9, 2018
The mainstream culture in the U.S. values independence. As a nation, we esteem individual actions and view them as paths to success. “Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is an admirable trait.
However, that focus is not the full picture.
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7. Gender Differences in Math Ability: What's the Science Say?
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By Katrina Hunter | April 25, 2017
Research Assistant, ETRI was in a college calculus course. We were learning how to use quadrants and angles to solve functions.
People can either solve the function visually, or by calculating out their answer. As we were going through different problems, I was using the visual method to solve the function. My instructor commented that it was good that I could solve the equation that way, and that it was rare for women to be able to visualize the solutions.
- By Katrina Hunter
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8. Extra Innings: Using a Video Game and Baseball to Teach Science and Math
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By Erica Marsh | September 15, 2016
Extra Innings is a new project which will be building a mobile video game to teach math and science. It’s a collaboration between ETR, dfusion and Science of Sport.
What’s new and different about it? We’re using a curriculum called Science of Baseball as the foundation, and we’ll be doing a formal evaluation of its efficacy.
- By Erica Marsh
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