Showing posts with label Inquiry Skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquiry Skills. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

STEM - What K-12 Skills are Needed for STEM Workforce?

MaryLee Helm

IL

Education Week. (2017). Congressional Panel Asked: What K-12 Skills are Needed for STEM Workforce? Retrieved from http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2017/07/congressional_panel_asks_what_k12_skills_needed_STEM_workforce.html?cmp=eml-enl-dd-news2

Lawmakers introduce a bill to provide more funding for the National Science Foundation to research STEM education in early childhood.

I am a proponent of STEM/STEAM education and am encouraged to see discussions happening at the government level to monetarily support programming in these fields of study.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Adriana Lugo

ET

Stripling, B. (2008) Inquiry-based teaching and learning—The role of the Library Media Specialist. School Library Media Activities Monthly XXV (1). Retrieved from 6/14/2017 /http://www.teachingbooks.net/content/InquiringMindsWantToKnow-Stripling.pdf

Explains inquiry based learning as well as how librarians can collaborate with teachers as well as use it to define their collection and teaching.