http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 21 May 2013 15:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/01/mcis-signature-s2s-program-kicks-off-its-third-year-with-a-series-of-trainings/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/01/mcis-signature-s2s-program-kicks-off-its-third-year-with-a-series-of-trainings/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:37:10 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31814 MCI’s signature School2School Connectivity Project (S2S), a partnership with global communications giants Ericsson and Airtel Ghana, the City of Kumasi, Ghana, the Kumasi Metropolitan Education Directorate, Columbia University Teachers College and selected New York City public and private schools to teach the uses of the computer and the Internet in the teaching of the STEM [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/11/01/mcis-signature-s2s-program-kicks-off-its-third-year-with-a-series-of-trainings/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/keeping-america-competitive-by-sparking-curiosity-in-the-classroom/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/keeping-america-competitive-by-sparking-curiosity-in-the-classroom/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:51:31 +0000 Dove Pedlosky http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13995 To keep America competitive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the STEM disciplines), a report from the National Academy of Sciences calls for strengthening the skills of some 250,000 teachers across the United States through university-run science training programs. The report asserts that when teachers gain laboratory experience and conduct fieldwork alongside active researchers, they become more effective and passionate educators in the classroom.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/28/keeping-america-competitive-by-sparking-curiosity-in-the-classroom/feed/ 0