Tag: Science Education Policy
Biomimetics Moves STEM Education in an Intriguing Direction
An initiative by a major biomimetics lab to prepare students for careers in STEM introduces them to biological coding.
Stop the Presses! Columnist Reports Accurately on Arizona Science Standards
It’s always encouraging when this happens. The problem is, it happens all too rarely.
Robot Chicken Meets Intelligent Design; Plus Good News About Yellow & Pink
If you examine your cable TV schedule, as I’ve just done, you’ll see that at night the Cartoon Network takes on a more adult-oriented identity, called Adult Swim (or “[adult swim]”).
In Indian Politics, Evolution News Helps to Stir Things Up
An Indian Cabinet minister, Satyapal Singh, with responsibility for education, had noted that Darwinian evolution is “scientifically wrong” and “not scientific.”
Of Pandas and Poor Journalism
Discovery, wonder, learning, exploration: That’s what we want young people to experience in science class.