Science and technology education

Science education is being modernized to give students the skills they will need for jobs in the future.

The latest training techniques emphasize classroom practice and design thinking.

Blowing up your lab is usually discouraged, but it’s part of the experience when you’re learning online.

Teachers do not need training in the arts to create useful drawing experiences for science students, says Bethann Garramon Merkle.

Science education could bring new opportunities to developing countries.

In a lab, you can hypothesize. In a lab, you can run experiments. In a lab, you can learn to think— and operate—like a scientist. If you are a high school or college student and do not have access to a lab then you could be missing out on valuable experience—but not for long.

Programmes from high school through to graduate school are aiming to keep more women and people from underrepresented groups in the physical sciences.

Researchers are making it safer for children to use the Internet for educational purposes.

Experienced chemists know that chemistry is all around them. Helping students to see the connections between real life and concepts of organic chemistry is the driving force behind the development of a set of online resources pioneered at UCLA.

It is time to use evidence-based teaching practices at all levels by providing incentives and effective evaluations, urge Stephen E. Bradforth, Emily R. Miller and colleagues.

Engaging undergraduates in computational tasks can improve genomic research laboratory productivity, benefiting both students and senior laboratory members.

If programmes to bolster STEM education are effective, they distort the labour market; if they aren’t, they’re a waste of money, argues Colin Macilwain.

Gene discovery and polygenic predictions from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.