Save Our Science - How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists

Ainissa Ramirez

TED Conferences

2013

66 páginas

2h 12m

ISBN-10: B00B7B0G32

In Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists, Yale professor Ainissa Ramirez makes an impassioned call for a recommitment to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in our schools and throughout our society. She describes what habits we need to change to make STEM fun again, as well as a plan for how to increase every childs participation in these disciplines. The 21st century requires a new kind of learner not someone who can simply churn out answers by rote, as has been done in the past, but a student who can think expansively and solve problems resourcefully. In order to solve the complex problems of tomorrow, the traditional academic skills of reading, riting, and rithmetic must be replaced with creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration skills skills inherent in scientific research.