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 | Sep 16, 2010 | Education
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – PCAST – has just released a new report on US K-12 education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (the STEM subjects). The report provides, in the words of the President’s...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 14, 2010 | Education, Engagement
I love books – the old fashioned kind, printed with ink on paper. As a kid, books were my source of education, inspiration and entertainment. As an adult, I still find there’s something oddly satisfying about picking up a sheaf of printed and bound pages...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 11, 2010 | Education, Recommended
Last September regular readers of 2020 Science will recall that I was somewhat taken aback at having to fork out $100 for a Texas Instruments graphing calculator as my son started 7th grade math. One academic year on, was the purchase worth it? (Yes, despite my shock,...
