STEM Steering Group blog

The STEM Steering group now has a new web presence through the blog: http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/ 

The STEM Steering Group (SSG) was formed in 2011, made up of staff and students from across the University’s Schools, Professional Services and external partners. 

Its aim is to promote STEM activities, research and partnerships, that contribute to the Raising the Bar strategy and to raise the profile of STEM through public engagement, activities and initiatives.

To find out more go to http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/ and to get involved email stem@northampton.ac.uk

To find out the work done by the group on employability go to http://apslandt.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/student-employability-skills-through.html

Sample screenshots from the blog:

To find out more go to http://mypad.northampton.ac.uk/stem/ and to get involved email stem@northampton.ac.uk



Related links

• Junkbots 
• Raspberry Pi Junkbot in Action
• Raspberry Pi in Northampton.

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12000 views and counting

Yesterday the page views for this blog exceeded 12000.

Views from around the world.

Sample of some of the most popular papers

A diagrammatic language to build and share STEM te... 2 Sep 2012	81
Personal View: On-line marking - two screens or on... 21 Feb 2012, 2 comments	56
NORTHANTS ENGINEERING TRAINING PARTNERSHIP (NETP),... 5 Sep 2012	55
Influencing students’ construction of personalised... 15 Jun 2011	52

Higher Education Academy STEM Blog posts

Some useful information taken from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) STEM Blog: http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/ on teaching and learning in STEM subjects.

• "Is Dialogic feedback worthwhile": http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/07/06/is-dialogic-feedback-worthwhile/
• Two videos - What are student perception of assessment and feedback: http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/07/04/what-are-student-perceptions-of-assessment-and-feedback/ 
• Posting concerning issues in assessment and feedback in STEM subjects: http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/07/03/what-are-all-the-issues-with-assessment-and-feedback/
• A couple of postings about internationalisation:
• http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/06/29/employability-and-international-students/
• http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/06/28/internationalisation-resources-for-teaching-and-learning/
• Posting on student's guide to using feedback: http://blogs.heacademy.ac.uk/stem/2012/06/27/a-student-guide-to-using-feedback/

Learning for Sustainable Developments

The United Nations declared 2005-2014 the  Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) "Education in general has been affected by the multiple crisis – not only in terms of threats to budgets, aid flows and learning opportunities, but also in terms of the very purposes of education: what kind of society and economy, indeed what kind of future should education prepare learners for? And how should it respond to the changing realities around us as well as prepare for – and contribute to – a different future? These types of questions have long been important components of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), but have now, in 2010, acquired new urgency and relevance. " UNESCO (2010)

Two Geography senior lecturers from the University, one of whom Dr Greg Spellman is from the School of Science and Technology, along with Dr Faith Tucker (School of Social Sciences) have developed a level 4 module called 'Learning for Sustainable Development'. This has involved a range of innovative methods.such as:

• UN style role-playing
• Producing a video documentary on a sustainability research project.
• Blogs  to enable students to think about sustainability in their daily lives.

Spin-offs from this include a project working with a northamptonshire school on sustainability, fitting with the other projects involving sustainability and school's (e.g. Junkbots) that are on going within the School of Science and Technology.

UNESCO (2010) "UNESCO Strategy for the Second Half of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" [internet]  :Paris:UNESCO (Published 2010) Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001873/187305e.pdf