Stevens web site for K-12 teachers gets national recognition
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A Stevens Institute of Technology web site has won top recognition from two of the nation’s premier organizations that rate outstanding math and science Internet web sites for kindergarten through 12th-grade education.
The web site, an initiative of Stevens’ Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE), can be viewed at http://www.ciese.org.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has named Stevens’ CIESE web site as one of its August 1999 "Digital Dozen," a collection of easy-to-use sites that promote educational reform and national standards (see www.enc.org/classroom/index.htm and click on "Digital Dozen"). Other sites named in this month’s "Digital Dozen" include Discovery Channel School, PBS Mathline and The New York Times Learning Network.
In addition, the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif., has named the CIESE web site one of its August "Tech 10" picks (see http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/tech10 ). The museum, created and funded by Silicon Valley corporations, is one of the country’s top science and technology museums today. In announcing its August picks, the Tech Museum called the CIESE web site "one of the 10 best technology and science web sites we’ve found for middle-school and above students, teachers and parents."
Stevens’ CIESE program sponsors and designs projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. The Center focuses on projects that use real time data available from the Internet, as well as collaborative projects that tap the Internet’s potential to work with scientists, experts, as well as other school children around the world. (See the following page for background and contact information related to CIESE.)
About Stevens’ Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education
CIESE helps educators worldwide use the power of technology to improve instruction and bolster student achievement in mathematics and science. The center collaborates with schools and school districts across the country and guides teacher professional development on effective applications of technology in K-12 science and mathematics curricula.
Through CIESE, teachers master computer and Internet applications as resources for teaching and learning. Advances in student learning in these areas will create a more competitive technological workforce that is better able to analyze and deal with complex issues and problems.
The CIESE team believes that technology can be a powerful catalyst in improving K-12 education by providing students with enriched opportunities to experience and understand scientific and mathematical concepts, increase problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, and participate in authentic interdisciplinary projects. All CIESE programs focus on rigorous science and mathematics content that can be enhanced or reinforced through the use of technology.
CIESE’s mission is accomplished through a variety of activities including direct collaboration with teachers and local school systems, partnerships with community colleges, video conferences and hands-on workshops. Current programs are impacting more than 10,000 educators through a hands-on course on unique applications of the Internet, an effort supported by more than $10 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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