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  • GLS 10 Conference Proceedings
    Date: 12/17/2014
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This is the fourth volume of the annual proceedings for the Games+Learning+Society (GLS). The GLS conference is a premier event for those from both academia and industry interested in videogames and learning. The GLS conference is one of the few destinations where the people who create high-quality digital learning media can gather for a serious ... »
  • Poster - Communities of Learning for Urban Environments and Science
    Date: 12/03/2014
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington DC. It describes the CLUES project that provides STEM education opportunities to families. ... »
  • Online Brown-Bag: The International Year of Light 2015 - What's Nano about Light? (Recorded)
    Date: 12/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Webinar
    This is a recording of a NISE Network online brown-bag conversation held in December 2014 about the International Year of Light. In 2013, the United Nations proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light (IYL). More than 100 organizations from more than 85 countries are participating in IYL. During this conversation we discussed scientific ... »
  • Making Museum Exhibits Accessible for All: Approaches to Multi-Modal Exhibit Personalization
    Date: 12/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Research
    Creating Museum Media for Everyone is an NSF-funded collaborative project of the Museum of Science, the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, Ideum, and Audience Viewpoints, to further the science museum field's understanding of ways to research, develop, and evaluate digital interactives that are inclusive of all people. As a part of this ... »
  • Broader Impacts: Improving Society
    Date: 11/12/2014
    Resource Category!: Report
    This NSF Special Report highlights broader impacts. Scientific progress comes in all shapes and sizes. Researchers peer at the microscopic gears of genomes, scan the heavens for clues of our origins. They unearth wind-weathered fossils, labor over complex circuitry, guide students through the maze of learning. Disparate fields, researchers and ... »
  • Informal Science Education: Lifelong, Life-Wide, Life-Deep
    Date: 11/04/2014
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This article from the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) offers an introduction to the field of informal STEM education (ISE). It provides a brief survey of informal STEM education projects related to biology and discusses opportunities for scientists to become involved. ... »
  • Creating a Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (C-COVES) White Paper
    Date: 11/03/2014
    Resource Category!: Reference Materials
    This White Paper summarizes the work of C-COVES, a two-year IMLS-funded project designed to Create a Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies. Specifically, C-COVES was intended to research the feasibility of creating a multi-institutional network of science centers across the country united in studying the visitor experience within ... »
  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Core? The Common Core Standards and Out-of-School Time Programs
    Date: 11/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Research Products
    This article describes discussions about the relationship between afterschool programs and the Common Core Standards at a networking meeting sponsored by the Robert Bowne Foundation for out-of-school time (OST) providers in New York City in the fall of 2013. The meeting was entitled "Introducing the Common Core Learning Standards: What Are They? ... »
  • Paper Copters and Potential: Leveraging Afterschool and Youth Development Trainers to Extend the Reach of STEM Programs
    Date: 11/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    What would it be like to increase the number of youth-serving volunteers who can competently lead science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities? This question guided the Inquiry in the Community project, launched in 2008. Along with Girl Scout staff colleagues and volunteers, the project created a system for embedding inquiry-based ... »
  • Curriculum and Professional Development for OST Science Education: Lessons Learned from California 4-H
    Date: 11/01/2014
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Grounded in literature on best practices in science education, this article describes a systematic and intentional approach to developing out-of-school time (OST) science curricula and professional development models. Examples from the California 4-H Science, Engineering, and Technology Initiative demonstrate promising practices in action. ... »

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