Latin America. In recent years, STEM employment has increased considerably – even up to five times more – than in those jobs where STEM sciences are not involved, during the same period. As technology continues to grow in different aspects of our lives, STEM jobs, which also come with better wages and lower unemployment rates, have a wider range of jobs – with important consequences for economic development.
This means that most of the new jobs will be in STEM fields, and teachers must prepare students for a job sector that will be very different from today.' Boxlight is contributing to this effort with its third annual "Boxlight STEM Day" (#BLSTEM) in the United States and Latin America.
On November 8, students in Georgia, Texas and California, as well as in Mexico, dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama will use the Labdisc data collector to conduct experiments. The objective of this activity is to relate the intensity of the light and the efficiency of the light source, to create a hypothesis about the amount of light emitted by different sources, and then proceed to test them using the integrated light sensor of the Labdisc.
The lesson provided by Boxlight conforms to the Next Generations Scientific Standards (NGSS) for high school students. Participating schools will be able to download the MimioStudio™ interactive lesson file or PDF containing experiment information, collaborative activities, assessment and more from https://lanews.boxlight.com/stem-day-2018.
"Boxlight's STEM Day is about raising awareness about experimentation-based learning and STEM education," said Sunshine Nance, VP of Marketing and Communication at Boxlight. "We developed the activity around Labdisc, thanks to the fact that it simulates tools that students will use when they enter the labor market. In addition, Labdisc allows them to take the activity outside the classroom or laboratory, which adds an unprecedented aspect of the real world, and thus be able to understand how STEM disciplines are used in the world around them. Our goals are to help students understand the relevance of STEM learning, develop the skills they need to succeed, and find the fun in all of this."
