Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences, University of California Irvine December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM.

Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences,

University of California Irvine

December 4, 2009Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

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/

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Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South

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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

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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

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◦ 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

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Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South

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◦ 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.

December 4, 2009

Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South

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Mitchell C. Brown, MLIS Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth

System Science and Russian Studies University of California Irvine

Email: [email protected]

December 4, 2009

Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South

and LILi Program