I am waiting with great anticipation for our first cohort of mathematics teachers that are coming for a two part residential course to improve their leadership skills. They are coming from all over the country and with a great variety of experience of both teaching and leadership. This will be the first mathematics professional development event of 2013 at the National STEM Centre.
In June we will… Read more
Mathematics professional development for 2013 is starting at the National STEM Centre
Posted by Lydia Showan on 9th May 2013
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It’s all hAPPening at the National STEM Centre in York!
Posted by Steve Lyon on 18th April 2013
There have been a lot of stories in the news recently about school students writing a whole series of amazing APPS for use on phones, iPods, iPads and the like.
Nick D’Aloisio hit the headlines when his ‘Summly’ app, which summarises news items, was bought by Yahoo for ‘dozens of millions’ of pounds. Nina Dewani designed a password-prompting app and Tom Humphrey launched… Read more
The Voice of STEM Education
Posted by Steve Lyon on 16th April 2013
I don’t usually like reality TV shows, and generally avoid watching ‘Big Brother’, ‘I’m a Celebrity, ‘X factor’ and the like. Yet I sat down, with the rest of my family, eagerly anticipating the new series of ‘The Voice’.
I’m not sure why I like watching the Voice, but I do - there I’ve said it! One reason is that I like the judges.… Read more
Home-grown graduates in STEM
Posted by Tom Lyons on 19th March 2013
A think tank report reveals that there is a 40,000 per year shortage of home-grown graduates in STEM.
The Social Market Foundation’s report, In the Balance: The STEM human capital crunch, uses the latest industry figures to analyse the mismatch between the future employment requirements and the supply of home-grown skills in the STEM sector.
The study notes that there has been a long-running… Read more
Smile and the world smiles with you
Posted by Steve Lyon on 26th February 2013
‘Smile and the world smiles with you’ so the saying goes. At the National STEM Centre we have something to bring a smile to the faces of mathematics teachers in primary and secondary schools up and down the country.
Visit the eLibrary and explore the wealth of resources produced by the Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment or SMILE. There are two collections, SMILE… Read more
York CAS Hub, Raspberry Pi with a good dollop of Jam
Posted by Steve Lyon on 14th February 2013
Blizzard conditions were not enough to deter teachers of computer science from attending the first Computing at Schools York Hub meeting, run in association with the National STEM Centre. After initial welcomes and introductions teachers got stuck into a variety of workshops; discovering how to set up a Raspberry Pi from scratch with our very own Ian Miller, experiencing how the Raspberry Pi can be… Read more
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