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High tech highlights: NSTA 2011
Here’s a taste of NSTA San Fran. More on this later, but many of the tech tools are open-ended allowing for student/teacher defined uses. Overall, the future looks like a fun place to teach! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_mT8D0eKjk[/...
By Martin Horejsi
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Imagine—you submit a proposal for a session at the NSTA conference, and you’re ecstatic when it’s accepted. And then you learn that you have an 8:00 AM Sunday morning time slot, in competition with early departures, church services,...
By Mary Bigelow
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Putting the "teacher" in NSTA
Congratulations to all of the teacher-presenters at NSTA—to those who were willing to share their ideas and experiences. It’s a quantum leap from the classroom to the national stage, but in the sessions I attended, my colleagues rose to t...
By Mary Bigelow
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The NSTA conference was featured in blogs from Edutopia:...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA Emeritus Executive Director Gerry Wheeler shared his thoughts on the challenges facing science education in the coming decade in the Robert H. Karplus Lecture. He noted that although students’ lives outside the classroom are changing drama...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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Featured speaker Larry Lowery’s lively presentation at the San Francisco NSTA conference highlighted research findings about how children learn to inspire teachers to incorporate new practices in their classrooms....
By Claire Reinburg
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Scorpions, free materials, and more
One thing about attending a NSTA conference, you get to try local cuisine, as well as an occasional unusual treat. I just spoke to this teacher from Pittsburgh who told me he sampled a scorpion in the exhibit hall. The chef didn’t recommend any...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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It's not just teachers…part 2
In addition to science educators, you also run into some interesting characters… Some attendees have more than two legs...
By Mary Bigelow
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NSTA—it's not just teachers!
The name may be National Science Teachers Association, but our members—and conference presenters—are involved at all levels of education. Improving STEM Teaching and Education: A Superintendent’s Symposium featured four Bay-area sup...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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A sloth is just one of the unexpected sights in the NSTA exhibit hall!...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I had an email from a former colleague who said that the conference must be a science teacher’s paradise. She’s right. Where else can you...
By Mary Bigelow
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More of what attendees are saying
I have talked to conference attendees and presenters who have come to San Francisco from all over the country. California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and everywhere in between. Some are here for their first conference, others are attending ...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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It’s not quite 7 a.m. here in San Francisco, but it looks like a number of people are getting an early start. When I arrived at the conference center a few minutes ago, I saw several people headed in, apparently on their way to some early sessi...
By Lynn Petrinjak
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I went to a session this morning for conference first-timers, as a veteran conference-attender. NSTA staff and office holders welcomed the “newbies” and guided them through a discussion of the many options for sessions and events. Each ...
By Mary Bigelow
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A panel discussion on the Next Generation of Science Education Standards with NSTA executive director Francis Eberle; Helen Quinn, chair of the board on Science Education, The National Academies in Menlo Park, California; and Stephen Pruitt, vice pre...
By Lynn Petrinjak