ExpeditionWorkshop/Workshop 09 16 2008 BreakOutGroup One

CEW-76 Breakout Session - Discussion Group One (Remote)    (4045)

Collaborative Expedition #76, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at NSF - Strategic Leadership For Networking and Information Technology Education    (4046)

To be discussed:    (4047)

• What Works?    (4048)
• What Doesn't Work?    (4049)
• What do We Need to Create?    (404A)
• What do We Need to Know?    (404B)

Participants:    (404C)

• TrudyBell    (404D)
• PeterYim    (4065)

Focus: How do we motivate students to be interested in science and technology?    (404G)

Discussion Notes:    (404E)

• ...    (404F)

• need to be done early    (4067)
  • (one speaker mentioned) we have to catch the child before 5th grade    (4066)

• what interests kids?    (406B)
  • do we know?    (406C)
  • the teachers? how the subjects are presented school    (406D)
  • conversely, what turns off kids    (406E)

• Examples of things that worked: competitions - project-based experiences    (4068)
  • the earlier speaker's example of building rockets and setting them off    (406F)
  • FIRST - robotics competition    (4069)
  • Cardboard Boat Regatta    (406A)

• the social issues as well    (406G)
  • as Dean Kamen (of FIRST) observed - more students are aspired to be a Michael Jordan than to be an Albert Einstein    (406I)
  • not just in the classroom    (406H)