9:00-9:30         Registration and breakfast

Welcome     

9:30                 Dr. Karrin Wilks, Senior Vice-President and Provost, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Ms. Janey Flanagan, Director of E-Learning, Borough of Manhattan Community College

“STEM Learners: Education, Technology, Success and Prospects”

                        Dr. Frank Mayadas, Founding President, Sloan-C, now Online Learning Consortium, and Program Director (ret’d), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

9:50-10:40      “Improving Student Accessibility through the use of Remote Instrumentation: The BC-ILN Project”

Dr. Bruno Cinel, Associate Professor, and Dr. Sharon Brewer, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia

10:40-11:00     Coffee break and networking: Fiterman 13th floor outdoor terrace

STEM Presentations

11:00– 11:25    “Online Graduate Courses from the American Museum of Natural History,” Dr. Rob Steiner, Director, Online Teacher Education Programs, American Museum of Natural History

11:30– 11:55     “Science Forward!” Dr. Lisa Brundage, Director of CUNY Advance and Dr. Kelly O’Donnell, Director of Science Forward and Adjunct Professor at Macaulay Honors College and City College of New York

2:00–12:25        “Bringing Real World Experiences to Online Learning using Simulation,”

Dr. Richard W. Oliver, Founder and CEO of American Sentinel University

12:30-12:55      “Blended Science Classes and Technology Tools for Student Collaboration,”

Dr. Nannette Van Loon and Dr. Sarah Salm, Professors at Borough of Manhattan Community College

Lunch

1:30-1:40         “Why Students Leave the Sciences and Lessons for Online Learning,” Dr. Anne Barrie Hunter,author of Talking about Leaving Revisited: The Problem of Undergraduate Persistence in STEM Majors, Co-Director of and Senior Professional Researcher with Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E & ER) at the University of Colorado, Boulder

1:40-1:50         “The Importance of Career Awareness for Students,” Ms. Joanne Van Voorhis, Executive Director of Career Cornerstone Center

 Panel and Guided Discussion

1:55-2:40         “The Need for Quality STEM Graduates and the Role of Online Education”

The panelists will address this important topic bringing to bear their perspectives and

experiences.

Moderator: Dr. Frank Mayadas, Sloan-C, now Online Learning Consortium

Mr. Scott Bronson, Manager of K-12 Programs for Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL) Office of Educational Programs (OEP)

Dr. Ryan Kelsey, Program Officer, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Dr. Steve Rossnagel, Research Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM

Dr. Michael Teitelbaum, Senior Research Associate, Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School, Science Careers 2013 Person of the Year, and author of Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent

2:40-2:50         Continuing Initiatives in Faculty Research, Professional Development and Collaboration,

Dr. Helene Bach and Dr. Megan Elias, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Closing and Door Prizes

Intel Survey Finds Job Variety and Earning Power Motivate U.S. Teens to Consider Engineering as a Career

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • A critical step to creating more American engineers is nurturing an interest in high school, or earlier, so there is a healthy pool of engineering students entering college.
  • Any facts about engineering, including what engineers actually do and, specifically, how much money they earn, motivate more than half of teens to say they are more likely to consider engineering as a career.
  • Programs such as robotics and science competitions offer teens the real-world, hands-on experience with engineering that improves the likelihood that they will get hooked on the subject and pursue it in college.

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/12/06/exposure-to-engineering-doubles-teens-career-interest

Who Says Math Has to Be Boring?

American students need vastly improved skills in math and science — they ranked 30th among students in 65 nations in math — but they do not all have to be trained to be mathematicians or scientists. While all students need a strong grasp of the fundamentals of critical thinking and problem solving, including algebra and geometry, they should be offered a greater choice between applied skills and the more typical abstract courses.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE FULL STORY

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/who-says-math-has-to-be-boring.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Enjoy

 

 

STEM teacher uses ‘flip’ method to put classroom focus on students, not educator

High school teacher Glenn Arnold uses an innovative method to make learning science easier for his students at L&N STEM Academy.The technique is called a flipped classroom, sometimes referred to as reverse instruction or an inverted classroom.  Click the Link below to read more…..

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/my-kids-my-school/stem-teacher-uses-flip-method-to-put-classroom

 

STEM Education Has Little to Do With Flowers

For readers who heretofore have been spared exposure to this little concatenation of capital letters, or who have, quite understandably, misconstrued its meaning, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, supposedly the major food groups of a comprehensive science education.

Click Below to Read More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/science/05angier.html?pagewanted=all