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crispr for kids

Teaching kids what it's about.

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Ms. Gazda believes that hands-on lab lessons help students “open their minds to the idea that they can truly be a scientist.” Several companies sell CRISPR curriculum kits to high schools and universities. One kit from Bio-Rad, a life science technology manufacturer, includes a prepackaged experiment using E. coli bacteria.

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patsy mink

A video on Representative Patsy Mink and Title IX

 

teaching anti-science

Rightwing and corporate interests deciding what "science" is taught.

This piece focuses on the fossil fuel industry, but already pushes to teach creationism are sneaking back into public schools.

 

 

abortion access and college choice

Comments from Teen Vogue.  It's still very early.  I've heard third hand of large applications for transfer two companies in Florida and Texas.

a tip of the hat to Kari

 

 

if you know about maxwell's equations

A nice way to teach a bit of their history

the end of roe and doctors

Emma Green, writing in The New Yorker, on the profound effect the end of Roe will have on the medical community and medical education.

 

 

on target

 

 

 

science education

Science Education an Age of Misinformation  is the output of discussions with a number of scientists on how to deal with mis and disinformation in the current environment.

 

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In short, an overwhelming body of evidence suggests that while students are digital natives in their facility with the technology, they remain digital novices in their ability to evaluate the credibility and quality of the information they encounter. They may be in the digital sea, but they are rudderless, lacking the basic navigational tools that would ensure they are not deceived. And, without some basic fluency, how can they obtain reliable scientific information that would better inform their personal actions and our collective decision making?

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college life in the pandemic

The students aren't ok.  This squares with comments from four professors I know.

 

 

disgusting

The equivalent of the talking Barbie that says math is too hard.

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Girls do not choose physics A-level because they dislike “hard maths”, the government’s social mobility commissioner has claimed, prompting anger from leading scientists.

Addressing a science and technology committee inquiry on diversity and inclusion in Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths), Katharine Birbalsingh said fewer girls chose physics because “physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it, they don’t like it,” she said.

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