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How Inventions have Shaped Us, and Our Role in Shaping Them

June 8, 2020

To wrap up season 13, we welcome Ainissa Ramirez back to the show. As science teachers are building their reading lists for the summer, they may want to check out Ainissa’s new book – The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. In this collection of stories about eight inventions (from clocks to silicon chips), Ramirez unearths […]

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Adjusting science language and technology for culturally relevant STEM education

November 4, 2019

As a former science teacher and now professor of education at Stanford, Dr. Bryan A. Brown is keenly interested in improving science teaching and learning in urban communities by investigating how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Some of this work is shared in his new book Science in the City, where Brown examines the interplay of language […]

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