{"id":5217,"date":"2013-02-06T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ombs\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:16:13","slug":"want-to-bolster-stem-career-interest-this-guys-got-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/2013\/02\/06\/want-to-bolster-stem-career-interest-this-guys-got-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Bolster STEM Career Interest? This Guy&#039;s Got it Right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"st_twitter_large\"> <\/span><span class=\"st_facebook_large\"> <\/span><span class=\"st_ybuzz_large\"> <\/span><span class=\"st_gbuzz_large\"> <\/span><span class=\"st_email_large\"> <\/span><span class=\"st_sharethis_large\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n       stLight.options({publisher:'0b9142ea-42f7-4b62-947d-dd7654ef4f2d'});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tyler_dewitt_hey_science_teachers_make_it_fun.html\">TED Talk<\/a> to get everyone thinking today.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tyler DeWitt at TEDxBeaconStreet\" src=\"http:\/\/tedxbeaconstreet.com\/wp-content\/themes\/tedx2011\/images-new\/homepage\/Tyler-DeWitt.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tyler DeWitt is a PhD candidate at MIT and an advocate of the idea that science education in high schools needs to take a turn for the less serious if we want kids to really get excited about it. Instead of the highly technical jargon of textbooks, he is in favor of turning science lessons into storytelling. &#8220;Science has become that horrible storyteller\u2026who gives us all the details nobody cares about,&#8221; DeWitt says, and his goal is to change that. DeWitt also has a growing library of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tdewitt451\">YouTube videos<\/a> aiming at exposing students to topics in biology, chemistry, physics, and math in a fun, engaging, and (perhaps most importantly) relatable way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great TED Talk to get everyone thinking today. Tyler DeWitt is a PhD candidate at MIT and an advocate of the idea that science education in high schools needs to take a turn for the less serious if we want kids to really get excited about it. Instead of the highly technical jargon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}