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Smart coverage of #EWASTEM convo w/@mpolikoff. @BenjaminBHerold on textbooks falsely claiming #CommonCore alignment: http://bit.ly/1fLhFQK

Thanks to all the journos and presenters who took the time to join us for #EWASTEM! Proud to be part of the @EdWriters team.

New trend is "reflective game play." It's more about the journey than the destination. Player's imagination is a key component. #EWASTEM

For video game designers on our panel, all of their career paths started with the pure fun of playing them as kids. #yaychildhood #EWASTEM

.@gtoppo has put together amazing panel on gaming as learning tool. Can't wait for his book on it! #EWASTEM

Going to demo solve-the-mystery video game wearing heart rate monitor. How easily I can see clues depends on how nervous I get. #EWASTEM

Scientist Helen Quinn: Without context, students dissecting owl pellets aren't learning much about owls, pellets or anything else. #EWASTEM

Helen Quinn of National Research Council: You cannot learn to analyze data without doing it yourself. #EWASTEM

My next trip to L.A. I want to visit http://heartofla.org's programs. Students learn 3D printing, circuitry & robotics. #EWASTEM

Long Beach #CTE high school principal had 1,200 people attend open house, quelling fears about "dropouts" flooding neighborhood. #EWASTEM

Bumper sticker envy, courtesy of @NRCCTE's Jim Stone. #EWASTEM http://t.co/ssZn4zJOGd

"I don't know what I want to be when I grow up yet. The notion that 12th graders should know is absurd." - @changeequation's Rosen #EWASTEM

Divergent views of whether there's #STEM worker shortage: 2+2 doesn't always equal 4, especially when no clear definition for "2." #EWASTEM

Teitelbaum: #STEM majors take many years to earn degrees. By time they enter field the job openings that lured them are gone. (2/2) #EWASTEM

Harvard's Teitelbaum: Repeated cycles of alarm/boom/bust on supposed shortage of #STEM workers. (1/2) #EWASTEM

Harvard's Teitelbaum: Silicon Valley is not a good parable for #STEM industry. It's the "classic cluster," prone to boom and bust. #EWASTEM

Harvard's Michael Teitelbaum hears people say they're against #STEM ed because they confuse it with stem cell research. (Sigh) #EWASTEM

.@changeequation's Rosen: Every child comes to school a natural born scientist. If we don't nurture that, we're in trouble. #EWASTEM

Engineers are going into management but MBAs can't make similar career shift, says Rosen of @changeequation. Diversion = shortage. #EWASTEM

.@changeequation's Rosen: #STEM is best acronym we've had. Some of us remember SMET, which sounded very much like something else. #EWASTEM

Linda Rosen of @changeequation asks if education journos are "#STEM literate." She correct that we need to be. #EWASTEM

We're back in session at #EWAstem! Today's agenda includes the science of teaching science, gaming in the classroom & high school redesign.

Reporters must be clear about what the science is, and not reaffirm unsupported claims in interest of balance, says @GaleSinatra. #EWASTEM

Things labeled "controversy" in science are often "misconceptions," says @GaleSinatra. Climate change, evolution not disputable. #EWASTEM

Gale Sinatra of @USCRossier recommends "directly refuting" common scientific misconceptions, i.e. false link b/t vaccines & autism. #EWASTEM

William Schmidt of MSU: The bottom 25 percent of U.S. teacher prep programs "are abominable." #EWASTEM cc: @NCTQ

William Schmidt of MSU: Based on statistical surveys, there are "very few" teachers nationally against #CommonCore. #EWASTEM

.@mpolikoff: 4th grade textbooks aligned with #CommonCore look a lot like Florida textbooks, agreeing "over 90 percent." #EWASTEM

.@mpolikoff: Textbook publishers capitalized on #CommonCore by slapping stickers on old tomes and calling them "approved." #EWASTEM

USC's Michael Quick: "If you got to know me you wouldn't call me the bluebird of happiness. But promising times ahead for #STEM." #ewaSTEM