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High tech highlights: NSTA 2011
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Here’s a taste of NSTA San Fran. More on this later, but many of the tech tools are open-ended allowing for student/teacher defined uses. Overall, the future looks like a fun place to teach! [youtube]http://www.…
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Imagine—you submit a proposal for a session at the NSTA conference, and you’re ecstatic when it’s accepted. And then you learn that you have an 8:00 AM Sunday morning time slot, in competition with early departures,…
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Putting the "teacher" in NSTA
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Congratulations to all of the teacher-presenters at NSTA—to those who were willing to share their ideas and experiences. It’s a quantum leap from the classroom to the national stage, but in the sessions I attended, my…
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The NSTA conference was featured in blogs from Edutopia: Jeff Goldstein’s keynote Some thoughts trends in science education (also from Edutopia)
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NSTA Emeritus Executive Director Gerry Wheeler shared his thoughts on the challenges facing science education in the coming decade in the Robert H. Karplus Lecture. He noted that although students’ lives outside…
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Featured speaker Larry Lowery’s lively presentation at the San Francisco NSTA conference highlighted research findings about how children learn to inspire teachers to incorporate new practices in their classrooms…
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Scorpions, free materials, and more
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One thing about attending a NSTA conference, you get to try local cuisine, as well as an occasional unusual treat. I just spoke to this teacher from Pittsburgh who told me he sampled a scorpion in the exhibit hall. The…
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It's not just teachers…part 2
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In addition to science educators, you also run into some interesting characters… Some attendees have more than two legs Johannes Kepler -- Up close and personal …
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NSTA—it's not just teachers!
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The name may be National Science Teachers Association, but our members—and conference presenters—are involved at all levels of education. Improving STEM Teaching and Education: A Superintendent’s…
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A sloth is just one of the unexpected sights in the NSTA exhibit hall! I have to echo Mary’s post. Where else can you see robots roaming, penguins flapping, and educators making their own butterfly chrysalis…
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I had an email from a former colleague who said that the conference must be a science teacher’s paradise. She’s right. Where else can you update your content knowledge get new teaching ideas and interact with the…
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More of what attendees are saying
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I have talked to conference attendees and presenters who have come to San Francisco from all over the country. California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and everywhere in between. Some are here for their first…
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It’s not quite 7 a.m. here in San Francisco, but it looks like a number of people are getting an early start. When I arrived at the conference center a few minutes ago, I saw several people headed in, apparently on…
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I went to a session this morning for conference first-timers, as a veteran conference-attender. NSTA staff and office holders welcomed the “newbies” and guided them through a discussion of the many options for…
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A panel discussion on the Next Generation of Science Education Standards with NSTA executive director Francis Eberle; Helen Quinn, chair of the board on Science Education, The National Academies in Menlo Park,…
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