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iPlan: A Flexible Platform for Exploring Complex Land-Use Issues in Local Contexts
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resource research Media and Technology
Reflecting on the practice of storytelling, this practice insight explores how collaborations between scholars and practitioners can improve storytelling for science communication outcomes with publics. The case studies presented demonstrate the benefits of collaborative storytelling for inspiring publics, promoting understanding of science, and engaging publics more deliberatively in science. The projects show how collaboration between scholars and practitioners [in storytelling] can happen across a continuum of scholarship from evaluation and action research to more critical thinking
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TEAM MEMBERS: Michelle Riedlinger Jenni Metcalfe Ayelet Baram-Tsabari Marta Entradas Marina Joubert Luisa Massarani
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
Today’s digital and online media demand an approach to learning keyed to a networked and interconnected world. The growth of online communities, social and online media, open educational resources, ubiquitous computing, big data, and digital production tools means young people are coming of age with a growing abundance of access to knowledge, information, and social connection. These shifts are tied to a host of new opportunities for interest-driven learning, creative expression, and diverse forms of contribution to civic, political, and economic life. Even learning of traditional academic
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mizuko Ito Richard Arum Dalton Conley Kris Gutierrez Ben Kirshner Sonia Livingstone Vera Michalchik Bill Penuel Kylie Peppler Nichole Pinkard Jean Rhodes Katie Salen Tekinbas Juliet Schor Julian Sefton-Green Craig Watkins Alicia Blum-Ross Lindsey Carfagna Crystle Martin R Mishael Sedas Nat Soti
resource project K-12 Programs
This project, an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot, managed by the University of Nevada, Reno, addresses the grand challenge of increasing underrepresentation regionally in the advanced manufacturing sector. Using the state's Learn and Earn Program Advanced Career Pathway (LEAP) as the foundation, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities will support and prepare Hispanic students for the region's workforce in advanced manufacturing which includes partnerships with Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC), the state's Governor's Office of Economic Development, Charles River Laboratories, Nevada Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Nevada EPSCoR) and the K-12 community.

The expected outcomes from the project will inform the feasibility, expandability and transferability of the LEAP framework in diversifying the state's workforce locally and the STEM workforce nationally. Formative and summative evaluation will be conducted with a well-matched comparison group. Dissemination of project results will be disseminated through the Association for Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU), STEM conferences and scholarly journals.
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TEAM MEMBERS: David Shintani Julie Ellsworth Karsten Heise Robert Stachlewitz Regina Tempel
resource research Public Programs
The “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is transforming the world of work. Just as it happened with the technologies of the steam, electricity and computer revolutions, digital technologies are now becoming pervasive and reshaping all parts of the global economy. The computing industry’s rate of job creation in the U.S. is now three times the U.S. national average. This rapid expansion of the computing workforce means that computing skills – with coding at the core – are the most sought-after skills in the American job market. Yet amid this boom, research by Accenture and Girls Who Code shows
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TEAM MEMBERS: Accenture Research Kate Harrison