{"id":78690,"date":"2022-02-04T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78690"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T22:14:42","slug":"turning-girls-loose-to-build-in-stem-rieder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/04\/turning-girls-loose-to-build-in-stem-rieder\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Girls Loose to Build in STEM [Rieder]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/innotechtoday.com\/turning-girls-loose-to-build-in-stem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> Turning Girls Loose to Build in STEM<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from innotechtoday.com by Katherine Rieder<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To elementary-school science teachers and nostalgic postsecondary STEM students, it sounds like a dream. Yet the refrain resounding through the room is one of \u201cthis isn\u2019t fair,\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s too hard,\u201d often accompanied by low grumbles and furrowed brows. This reaction to a relatively unstructured learning activity where the learning process takes priority over finding a concrete and \u201ccorrect\u201d answer is, in fact, typical with this age group and gender.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It results from the mutually reinforcing combination of girls\u2019 decreasing confidence in their innate intellectual ability and the fixed mindset many develop as they move through the early years of their formal education. These same factors are incredibly detrimental to\u00a0a young woman\u2019s engagement with STEM and a future career in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning Girls Loose to Build in STEM &#8212; from innotechtoday.com by Katherine Rieder Excerpt: To elementary-school science teachers and nostalgic postsecondary STEM students, it sounds like a dream. Yet the refrain resounding through the room is one of \u201cthis isn\u2019t fair,\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s too hard,\u201d often accompanied by low grumbles and furrowed brows. This reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,82,533,121,180,119,46,838,437,480,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-engineering","category-experimentation","category-face-to-face","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning-experience-design","category-robotics","category-society","category-stem-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78691,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions\/78691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}