Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education - Milton Chen

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Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

STEM Summit 2010UC-Irvine, Feb. 19, 2010

Milton Chen, [email protected]

Senior FellowGeorge Lucas Educational Foundation

San Francisco Bay Area

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1.Guarantee Digital Equity: Close the Digital

Divide!

• More than an educational issue: a civil rights issue

• Declining costs: $275 per student per year, TCO

• Political will: Maine still the only 1:1 state

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2. Create New Settings for STEM Learning• Rise of after-school, STEM beyond school

• Luis: 4-H Tech Wizard (Oregon St.)(edutopia.org/digital-generation)

• Online learning: Bugscope (bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu)

• Role of universities, science museums

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3. The Other 10%: Assistive Technology• Speech-to-text readers, speech recognition and synthesis

• Universal design: students with disabilities, but we all have “special needs”

• Digital curb cuts

• Natl Ctr for Technology Innovation (ncti.org), CAST (cast.org)

edutopia.org/digital-generation

edutopia.org/digital-generation

edutopia.org/digital-generation