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STEM education: why is it important to librarians?

STEM education: why is it important to librarians?. Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences, University of California Irvine. Royal Society of Chemistry.

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STEM education: why is it important to librarians?

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  1. STEM education: why is it important to librarians? Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences, University of California Irvine Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  2. Royal Society of Chemistry • The Royal Society hopes that the new interactive site will inspire members of the public to see science as part of everyday life and culture. Royal Society president Lord Martin Rees, in an announcement for Trailblazing, an online exhibit of 350 years of publishing from Royal Society of Chemistry (December 2, 2009) URL: http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/ Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  3. STEM Issues for Librarians • STEM Issues for Librarians – collecting, disseminating, integrating resources • NSDL (National Science Digital Library) http://nsdl.org/ • DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  4. American Chemical Society • Right now, in classrooms across America, our members are preparing the next generation of scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians and helping all children to develop critical thinking and reasoning skills. • Letter to Arne Duncan, UC Secretary of Education, January 9, 2009 URL: http://portal.acs.org/portal/fileFetch/C/WPCP_011731/pdf/WPCP_011731.pdf Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  5. STEM issues – The Technological Context • Interdisciplinary Research and Integrated Content • Flexible and Agile Career Paths for students and advanced learners • Information Expansion – creation and availability of raw data • Learning Concepts and Information Literacy • Teaching Problem Solving and Lifelong Learning Techniques • Building Sustainable Societies Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  6. STEM issues – Societal and Professional Context • The Realization of Globalization and the Global Economy – The World is the Market • STEM Teaching Issues for International and Domestic Students • Interaction Skills of Teamwork, Communications, and Public Policy • Example: Abrupt Climate Change and Global Warming • The issues involves primary science, public policy, legal issues, engineering applications, social discourse. Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

  7. STEM education: why is it important to librarians? • Mitchell C. Brown, MLIS • Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies University of California Irvine • Email: mcbrown@uci.edu Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

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