by Andrew Maynard | Jun 30, 2012 | Communication, Education, Recommended
YouTube is gearing up to transform the way we learn. At least that’s the message that came across loud and clear at this morning’s VidCon breakout panel on education. In an overflowing room of well over two hundred conference goers, head of YouTube...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 29, 2012 | Communication, Education, Engagement
I’m over half way through the first day at VidCon 2012, and thought I would jot a few notes down on the science scene here. OK, so maybe 7,000 people haven’t come to the Anaheim Convention Center to hear the latest on the Higgs boson and other interesting...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 19, 2012 | Communication, Education, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Nanotechnology, Technology Innovation
Here’s an introduction to the “wonders and worries of nanotechnology” that I think is rather brilliant: It’s part of a series being produced by the Science Museum of Minnesota for the Nanoscale Informal Science Education network (NISE Net). The...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 4, 2012 | Communication, Education, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Technology Innovation
Credit: James King Last semester, speculative designer James King worked with myself and a small group of science and public health students at the University of Michigan to explore how a fusion of science and creative art can lead to new insights and modes of...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 5, 2012 | Communication, Education
In a little over a week, ten of my University of Michigan Masters of Public Health students will embark on an intensive science blogging course – and they need your help! Every week for ten weeks, each student will take a recent scientific publication or...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 22, 2011 | Education
Two years ago I posted links to ten (relatively) mindless online “games” as a bit of fun, and as something not too taxing to indulge in over the holiday break. Having reached that point again where anything more intellectually challenging than tic tac toe...
