Podcaster: Host : Pamela Gay ; Guest : Anita Heward & Steve Canvin
Title: Hangoutathon: Putting the E in STEM: MoonBots & Google Lunar XPRIZE
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/kxuoES7vYdw
Description: Hosted by Dr. Pamela Gay and Christopher Miller (https://twitter.com/codeshaman & http://ctmiller.net/), with guests the author and educator Dr. Nathan Lowell & science teacher Erin Moore who tells us “… most people learn best by doing and gaming is a very active form of learning… a deeper set of learning…” Dr. Lowell tells us “Games require you to not only know what the thing is that you’re trying to learn, but you have to understand it well enough to be able to apply it.” There is also a segment on, ummm, bee spit.
Bio: Pamela Gay is a Project Director of Cosmoquest.
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