Closing Speaker PETE&C

Prepare students, workers and citizens

1. Literate in all subjects
2. Learning is a social act
3. Habit of Inquiry, life-long learning.
4. Assessing progress is part of learning
5. Information into knowledge using multiple media
6. Learning in a Global Context

Schemata for the STEM

1. Technology certification
2. foundation for studies
3. high percentages

Gaps:

1. Achievements
2. Cost per pupil
3. Best preschool, but not available for 4/5 of our students

Expectations

2.4% take AP Calculus

"Ultimately, we will be judged by the success of each child" Dr. Gerald Zahorchak, PA Secretary of Education

WIKIs

Check these out:

Widgetbox

Wordle

NING Diane Krauss

• box.net is a file holder.
• NING has private, more robust than wiki
• Edmodo is even better
• NING is robust with space, lots can go on a NING but there is advertising. Pay to get rid of the advertising
• classroom20.com
• educa

Jim Gates Session A Digital Literacy

Creative Commons

• Check out Tianammen Square, Google, Bing, then Google in China
• Yahoo has Creative
• Big Huge Labs does neat things with pictures
• Copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com

• Digital Literacy Document Management
• Gapminder.com
• www.officelive.com, like Google Docs difference is you cannot create, must have office 2007 this is storage only

Research skills

• Zoomit.com will zoom in, free
• site:ir elections
• Wolfram Alpha (Firefox browswer) computational search engine
• Split screen is an add on from Firefox
• Del.ico.ious
• Diigo
• mailcatch
• Aggregator - Netvibes.com to have information come to you

Security, Privacy, Digital Footprints

• "Please rob me" on Twitter, finds people not home- WARN STUDENTS

Presenting

• pecha kucha style Power point presenting. Each slide 20 seconds, 20 slides
• mappingworlds
• uuorld
• slideshare
• Bubble motion charts in Google
• Google Earth
• Evernote to take notes
• Symbaloo - site to pull up lots of icons

STEM Favorite 10 sites

STEM:

Problem solvers

Siemens STEM Academy Oakridge, trips conferences

http://stem.discoveryeducation.com/

PBS Eduction Resource Center

~Link to shows PBS/STEM

The STEM School blog

Minn STEM - Flashy

http://www.mn-stem.com/

STEM Education Blog

Pennsylvania STEM Initiative

http://www.pasteminitiative.org/

Teach Science and Math Blog

www.teachscienceandmath.com/2010/01/29/math-and-science-integration-with-environmental-science/

STEM ED

http://k12s.phast.umass.edu/stem/

Engineering is Elementary

http://www.mos.org/eie/

STEM Connect

http://www.discoveryeducation.com/stemconnect/

National Engineers Week Foundation

http://www.eweek.org/Home.aspx

Discover Engineering

http://www.discoverengineering.org/

On Discovery site: Fuel the Future Now