Up-coming Webinar on STEM

Hi Everyone.

I received this e-mail on an upcoming Webinar on STEM skills education.  Pass it along to anyone you think might be interested.

Quig

 April 21, 2008
 
To:      Project Kaleidoscope Community
 
From:  The PKAL National Office
 
Re:      PKAL featured on the Herman Miller Webinar Series
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Presenting the Herman Miller Webinar Series
By Jeanne Narum, Project Kaleidoscope, and Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Tech

What you’ll learn:

§       How today’s undergraduates learn, especially those in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

§       How contemporary pedagogies serve these learners, today and tomorrow.

§       How physical spaces can work for the 21st Century learner— and why.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 11:30 a.m. EDT

To Register:
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Designing engaging spaces for learning, especially in STEM buildings, presents many challenges. It must take into account the characteristics of the 21st Century learner. Just as important are the implications of current research on how people learn. Then, there are the contemporary pedagogies developed to support robust learning. In this seminar’s integrative approach, the presenters consider these elements and the impact space has on them. By focusing on what works, the presenters provide practical planning information for creating built environments for higher education.

About the presenters

Jeanne Narum is Director of the Independent Colleges Office (ICO) and the founding Director of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL). As PKAL Director, Narum works with a national alliance of faculty in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) who are committed to transforming the nation's STEM learning environment for all undergraduates. Their work takes a kaleidoscopic perspective in shaping an agenda for action and building a pattern for reform that addresses all facets of the undergraduate learning environment: people, programs, and spaces.

Wendy Newstetter is the Director of Learning Sciences Research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Newstetter's research focuses on understanding cognition and learning in interdisciplines. This work informs the design of educational environments that support the development of integrative problem solving. Her ethnographic investigations of three interdisciplinary research laboratories have informed the design of problem-driven learning (PDL) classrooms at Georgia Tech. These classrooms are designed to foster integrative model-based reasoning.

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