2012+STEM+Cohort


 * This group meets on 2nd Fridays (9-11am) & 4th Thursdays (4-6pm) of each month, at the [|Mandolin Cafe]. **


 * Facilitators are Pattie Green & Ralph Hitz.**


 * From the grant proposal submitted to [|SBCTC]:**


 * Opportunities and Challenges for Teaching Responsibly with Technology in the STEM Disciplines: An Inquiry Into Our Own Practice** - eLearning technology in teaching science, technology, engineering, and math.

The participants in this community will be using an intra-disciplinary, science and engineering grounded learning community structure to develop and sustain embedded professional development for the science area as they study their own teaching practices in an inquiry-based learning collaborative that will critically examine eLearning in the broader ecology of teaching and learning practices in their disciplines with the goal of forwarding student achievement, learning and success in the STEM disciplines.
 * FLC Detail**

While exploring technology enhanced laboratory activities and/ or new and innovative techniques ( for example: Google- Maps, Earth, Sky- GIS and new iPad application for anatomy and physiology courses) the participants will study the approaches (design and delivery) and outcomes of learning practices in face to face and hybrid/ fully online instruction within their disciplines and compare, contrast, analyze and evaluate them to determine what it might take to develop the most promising and effective class/lab experiences in the online and hybrid modes. The community will investigate social presence, telepresence and student engagement and will work cooperatively and interdependently to address questions of rigor and academic integrity while developing and testing promising practices that might allow them to leverage new (and constantly changing) technologies and innovative approaches in the service of improved and integrated student learning in the sciences.