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Join Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA and educators from the MicroObservatory Robotic Telescope Network in this interactive webinar! Learn how to remotely control a real telescope and create stunning astrophoto masterpieces using a simple image enhancement tool used by astronomers. Designed specifically for facilitators to include engaging digital and hands-on activities, this empowering event is ... Read more

Although many science centers currently have audience-focused data efforts in place, the majority of these are isolated to individual organizations with limited capability for sharing findings across sites. Through Creating a Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (C-COVES)–an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project–project leaders hoped to determine the feasibility of forming a ... Read more

The Sound Travels team interviewed staff members from seven science museums across the country who shared ways they are removing barriers and accommodating visitors with disabilities.

Explore the importance of relevance in STEM learning experiences. We will start with an introduction to the principles of relevance, sharing strategies found to be successful during a study of place-based learning in the NISE Network’s STEM Learning Ecosystems project. We will talk about the process of how to approach your community and find out ... Read more

What do you do when traditional data collection tools just won’t work for your project?  This session will explore strategies for learning from visitors in tricky physical contexts, in hard-to-wrangle programmatic situations, and in leisure experiences you just don’t want to interrupt. We invite you to join us for a 90-minute session to begin exploring ... Read more

This Update From the Field was compiled by Jamie Bell, Project Director, CAISE, Claire Pillsbury, Program Director, Osher Fellowships, the Exploratorium and Lucinda Presley, Chair, the Innovation Collaborative. “A physician, an engineer, a dancer and an artist walked into a bar…….and she ordered a drink…” So began Robert Root-Bernstein’s talk on How Arts, Crafts, and Design Training Benefits STEMM Professionals: The Evidence ... Read more

The 2023 Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA) Conference theme is Sankofa, which is a Ghanaian principle that means “to go back and get it.” It translates to san – to return, ko – to go, fa – to get/seek and represents the importance of learning from the past to improve the future. It was chosen as this year’s theme ... Read more

Calling Ed Researchers interested in K-12 Computer Science REGISTER NOW! For January workshops to help teams prepare for responses to the NEW CSforAll Solicitation. K-12 implementation teams and individual education researchers are encouraged to apply. Travel support is available. NSF has just released the FY17 CSforAll Solicitation. Three workshops are planned for January in order ... Read more

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement’s (CSCCE) Community Manager Certification Program builds upon their foundational Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) course to create a longer-form, multi-component, online program for STEM community managers. The program will equip community managers and their organizations with the necessary skills and frameworks to ground their work in a community-centric leadership ... Read more

In this Tools Trial, the first in an ongoing series focusing on open-source tools and communities, the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)  will be exploring how community managers can use Github to support connection and collaboration between members. Learn more and register.

The U.S. Department of Education and Beyond100K are partnering to host a dynamic and restorative webinar aimed at amplifying the efforts to address the challenges of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) teacher representation and retention. The goal for this interactive session is to bring together partners, school leaders, and teacher preparation organizations to ... Read more

This Knowledge Base article was written collaboratively with contributions from Meixi Ng, Patricia Montano and CAISE Admin. This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date.  Overview  What do we mean by culturally relevant experiences? And the use of the concept and its ... Read more

Culture influences all aspects of our lives, from our interactions with friends and family, to our actions and perspectives at work, to our perspectives of others. Culturally responsive evaluation acknowledges that we all are affected by culture and that we have biases and assumptions that we bring with us when working with stakeholders and audiences. ... Read more

Interested in exploring how to support children’s curiosity about STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) and leveraging that curiosity for learning—and having fun yourself? Register for the 2024 Curiosity and Learning conference, a hands-on day exploring stations to experiment with provocations and materials. You’ll also have an opportunity to engage informally with BU Wheelock faculty ... Read more

Overview About NSF AISL Applying for Funding Current Funding Opportunities Resources Funded AISL Projects Solicitation Webinars NSF Resource Centers Service Be an AISL Reviewer Work for NSF Update on AISL Solicitation Submissions: Multifactor authentication will be required to sign into Research.gov effective Oct. 27, 2024. Learn more. Read the current NSF AISL Program Solicitation (24-601). ... Read more

Cyberchase Description An interview with Frances Nankin, Thirteen/WNET : Co-Principal Investigator of Cyberchase.   Transcription of Interview with Frances Nankin <!– July 22, 2008 by Jim Spadaccini –> <!– [music]-Cyberchase, we’re moving’, we’re beaten’ Hacker at his game… –> Introduction     Introduction   Frances: Cyberchase is on many platforms, but the cartoon part takes ... Read more

The Cyberlaboratory – Exploring Customization and Continuity, or Cyberlab (part of National Science Foundation project #1114741), installed a suite of observation tools in the existing infrastructure of the Visitors Center at Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) in Newport, Oregon to unobtrusively observe visitors. The audio and video recording tools document visitor behaviors in order to understand ... Read more

The Cyberlearning Research Summit, convened by the Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) and supported by the National Science Foundation, will be held June 9-10, 2014 in Madison, Wisconsin, immediately before the Games, Learning & Society conference at the same location. The Cyberlearning Research Summit will be a gathering of researchers [regardless of funding ... Read more

The Second Cyberlearning Summit will take place June 9th-10th. It features 15 talks about the latest research on technology and learning, research posters, technology demonstrations, and panels. Now, you can register for the online program to view the live webcast of the talks (over two days) and join online activities with other virtual participants. There ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a Dear Colleague Letter entitled Enabling the Future of Making to Catalyze New Approaches in STEM Learning and Innovation. The letter encourages EAGER proposals surrounding the topic of making in both formal and informal settings. Proposals are due December 17, 2015 and December 17, 2016. From NSF: Building ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a Dear Colleague letter to encourage proposals that integrate the use of data from polar regions into undergraduate education and informal STEM education. From NSF: The Geosciences and Education and Human Resources Directorates are partnering to advance and develop understanding of learning environments that build upon the rich ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter announcing opportunities for funding through the INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) initiative. Proposals will be due on November 13, 2017 and April 16, 2018. For more information, visit the NSF website.

The Directorate for Education and Human Resources announces a nationwide search to fill the position of Division Director, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The mission of EHR is to provide the research foundation to develop a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-literate public and a ... Read more

NSF has identified improvement of graduate student preparedness for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce as one of its priorities. As part of this effort, a supplemental funding opportunity is available in fiscal year (FY) 2018 and FY 2019 to provide support for non-academic research internships for graduate students to support career opportunities ... Read more