Infusing STEM Education with Coding and Discovery: An Open Platform for Publishing Modern Curriculum

Kyle Keane, MIT

W. Craig Carter, MIT

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Who We Are

CODE SEAL

CODE, Science, Engineering And Learning

Code | See | Learn

www.CodeSeal.org

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Project Leaders

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Educators

Daniel Lewis - RPI (Materials Science) - Professor

Rachel Zucker - UC Berkeley (Materials Science) - Post Doc

Heman Gharibnijad - Univ. North Texas (Math and Physics) - Post Doc

Ming Tang - Rice (Materials Science) - Professor

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Designers

Chiara Valerio - UX and Interaction Designer

Andrew Ringler - MassArt (Dynamic Media) - UX and Interaction Designer

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Researchers

Janet Rankin - MIT (Teaching and Laerning Laboratory)

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Ambassadors

Jenni Zheng - Stanford (Materials Science)

Michael Gibson - MIT (Materials Science)

George Varnadides - MIT (Materials Science)

Mary Elizabeth Wagner - MIT (Materials Science)

Sam Shames - MIT (Materials Science)

Raku Watari - MIT (Materials Science)

System Overview

Project Timeline

Project Timeline

Phase 1 (In progress) - A new framework for delivering modern science and engineering curriculum

Project Timeline

Phase 1 (In progress) - A new framework for delivering modern science and engineering curriculum

Phase 2 (Summer 2016) - An open STEM curriculum repository

Project Timeline

Phase 1 (In progress) - A new framework for delivering modern science and engineering curriculum

Phase 2 (Summer 2016) - An open STEM curriculum repository

Phase 3 (Spring 2017) - An open data repository for educational research

Curriculum Framework

Main Idea

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Learning Modes

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Learning Cycle

Live Demonstration

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Publication Platform

Submission Format

Standard Mathematica notebook with Default stylesheet plus some simple markup

Submission Process

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Thank You

If you have questions or would like to get involved, then please contact us through 
www.codeseal.org