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Microsoft Selects the Nation’s Top Educators at the U.S. Innovative Education Forum

By Guest PostAugust 1, 2011Education, Technology2011 us innovative education forum, acte, alabama, alaska, andrew ko, anthony sablan, association for career and technical education, california, ccsso, colin horack, council for chief state school officers, educators, engineering and math, florida, ief, jason arthur, kelli etheredge, louis zulli jr, melanie wiscount, michigan, Microsoft, microsoft corp., partners in learning global forum, Pennsylvania, Science, south carolina, stem learning, Technology, Washington

*Outstanding educators using technology are recognized for their contribution and impact in teaching.*

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 1, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced 11 educators from Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Washington who have been selected as winners of the 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum (IEF). The IEF is an event recognizing innovative teachers and school leaders who creatively and effectively use technology in their curriculum to help improve the way kids learn while increasing student success. Out of the thousands that applied, 100 educators from 25 states were selected for a spot to compete on Microsoft’s corporate campus in Redmond. IEF participants also voted on their peers in the Educator’s Choice category and selected a winning project. The winning educators will represent the U.S. and advance to compete against educators from around the world at the Partners in Learning Global Forum, Nov. 6–11, 2011 in Washington, D.C. (more…)

No Fake Science, Just Real Learning Opportunities (and Pennies)

By Guest PostJuly 25, 2011Educationcareer high school, penny experiment, penny measuring experiment, yale scholar program

Anamika Mishra hopes to be a pediatrician someday, but right now, she’s studying pennies. “The people who make pennies used different materials, and we’re trying to figure out which is the densest,” she explains. (more…)

Expert in Arabic Studies Honoured by British Academy

By Guest PostJuly 23, 2011Culture, Educationacademy, al qasimi professor, arabic language and linguistics, british academy, classic ships of islam from mesopotamia to the indian ocean, dionisius a agius, institute of arab and islamic studies, islamic material culture, maritime ethnography, maritime ethnography of the arabian gulf and the red sea, middle east, sir adam roberts, the dhow, traditional wooden seacraft of the western indian ocean, traditional wooden vessels, university of exeter

Professor Dionisius A. Agius of the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

He is one of only 38 academics to be elected this year at its Annual General Meeting on 21 July. (more…)

MU Psychology Study Finds Key Early Skills for Later Math Learning

By Guest PostJuly 15, 2011Educationcomplex math, david geary, elementary school years, fractions and algebra, good foundation, good head start, growth in mathematics, low level arithmetic, math learning, math skills, mathematics, psychologists, understanding numbers and quantity, united states, university of missouri

*Long-term study shows students must know about numbers at beginning of first grade*

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Psychologists at the University of Missouri have identified the beginning of first grade math skills that teachers and parents should target to effectively improve children’s later math learning.

A long-term psychology study indicates that beginning first graders that understand numbers, the quantities those numbers represent, and low-level arithmetic will have better success in learning mathematics through the end of fifth grade, and other studies suggest throughout the rest of their lives. (more…)

Chemistry Never Sounded This Good!

By Guest PostJune 18, 2011Educationalex jaksha, ali lanewala, beatles, chem 14d jedi, chemistry, chemistry jedis, chemistry jock, concepts like salvation, daniel brenners, edgar gonzalez; forget that, frank choe, gargonauts, hydrogenation, immunology and molecular genetics, john boles, jordan halfman, justin banaga, kevin nishida, kimberly bui, lady gaga, let it be, michelle azurin, microbiology, mike dai, music, music video, myan pham, nakia sarad, neil garg, o chem toolbox, organic chemistry course, professor neil garg, rachel stafford lewis, sean nguyen, sophomore, ucla, video, we're yours, yannick goeb, YouTube

*UCLA students set organic chemistry to music, from Beatles to Lady Gaga*

By now, the word is out at UCLA that undergraduates in Neil Garg’s organic chemistry course produce clever, creative music videos as an extra-credit assignment. The bigger secret may be just how much chemistry they learn by doing so, as none of them are chemistry majors and most admit they didn’t like chemistry when the class started.

It’s a little too soon to say which music video will be this year’s sensation. A strong candidate is “We’re Yours” by the Gargonauts — Rachel Stafford-Lewis, Myan Pham, Ali Lanewala and Jordan Halfman — which achieves the desired trifecta of excellent chemistry in a video that sounds and looks great. But unlike last year, when one video, “Chemistry Jock” — which has become the gold standard of the genre, with 38,000 YouTube views and many fans — ran away from the competition, this year’s field is much deeper. (more…)

In Summer Session, Students can Take a Yale Course From Afar

By Guest PostMay 25, 20111 commentEducationbrains of genius, computational finance, introduction to the politics of the mideast, jazz and race in america, music historian craig wright, pilot program, political institutions, susan gonzalez, tom duffy, yale faculty members, yale summer session courses, yale university

Students from around the world will have the opportunity to take a Yale course this summer even if they are unable to come to campus.

The University is embarking on an experimental pilot program to offer Yale Summer Session courses, all taught by noted Yale faculty members, through an online platform. The overall program involves four Yale Summer Session courses, with two of the four courses available for credit. The five-week, for-credit courses are open to current college students and others beyond college. Students apply for admission to the courses as they would for any in-resident Yale Summer Session course. (more…)

Take Fear Head on, Actor Tom Hanks Tells Yale Seniors

By Guest PostMay 23, 2011Culture, Educationacademy awards, apollo 13, big, catherine lew, class day, eliza gonzalez, eric randall, Facebook, fear or faith, forest gump, graduates, ivy ode, john paul jones, old campus, old country, oscar-winning actor, philadelphia, preparing to leave, saving private ryan, tom hanks, toy story, tweets, Twitter, veterans of the iran and afghan wars, woody, yale, yale baseball cap, yale class day, youtube viral sensations

How Yale’s newest graduates make their imprint on the world and on history will be determined by how well they handle fear and inspire faith, Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks told the seniors in his Class Day address on May 22.

In the ceremony on the Old Campus, Hanks urged the soon-to-be graduates to begin their future by coming to the aid of the U.S. veterans of the Iran and Afghan wars, whose “faith in themselves is shadowed by the fear of not knowing what is expected of them next,” he said. (more…)

Study Shows Interactive Teaching Methods Double Learning in Physics Classroom

By Guest PostMay 15, 20111 commentEducationbose einstein condensate, carl wieman, carl wieman science education initiative, cognitive psychology, cu sei, cwsei, ellen schelew, eric cornell, interactive teaching methods, louis deslauriers, nobel prize, pedagogy, physics, physics class, university of colorado boulder

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study involving University of Colorado Boulder Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman that is being published today in Science.

Led by Louis Deslauriers, a post-doctoral researcher at UBC’s Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, or CWSEI, the study compared the amount of learning students experienced when taught by traditional lecture and by using interactive activities based on research in cognitive psychology and physics education. The teaching took place for three hours over one week. (more…)

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