{"id":3763,"date":"2015-04-13T20:26:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2015-04-15T02:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:51:51","slug":"stem-literacy-you-dont-have-to-be-a-rocket-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"STEM literacy: You don&#8217;t have to be a Rocket Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='678' height='412' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y44nqo11Fh0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nMs. Calandrelli does a nice job explaining her thesis that you don&#8217;t need to be a rocket scientist, or rather a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) scientist to understand STEM information, to be STEM literate.<br \/>\nRegarding the average person&#8217;s plaint &#8220;I don&#8217;t do math,&#8221; i.e., that the average Joe or Jane just doesn&#8217;t or can&#8217;t understand STEM information, Emily says:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s time we threw away that mindset&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bravo. Well put. Like religion and science denial, its just a mindset, a habit, a cultural given, a historical accident. Not natural, needed nor necessary. In fact, like religion detrimental and just plain wrong.<br \/>\nEmily makes the case that you can achieve STEM literacy and handle understanding math and science quite well without being a scientist or techno geek yourself.<br \/>\nIt is just a mindset we can jettison.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never heard of Emily before finding her recent TEDx video. She&#8217;s actually becoming quite an accomplished up and coming media science educator.<br \/>\nCheck out this article of hers on the vaccine controversy:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mic.com\/articles\/64549\/5-reasons-jenny-mccarthy-is-even-more-dangerous-than-you-thought\">5 Reasons Why Jenny McCarthy is Even More Dangerous than You Thought<\/a>.<br \/>\nEmily pulls no punches in it! Like wow.<\/p>\n<p>And she has her own new science show on FOX entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilycalandrelli.com\/about-my-show\/\">Xploration Outer Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As she says states on her blog:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We need more Bill Nyes and Neil deGrasse Tysons of various ages, races, and gender.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, we could have another very visible and educated science educator in the making. Fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine if we had as many folks out there promoting science as we do ministers, priests, imams and monks promoting myths and divisiveness and misogyny and homophobia and pseudoscience&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/emilycalandrelli2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/emilycalandrelli2.jpg\" alt=\"emilycalandrelli2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3805\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/emilycalandrelli2.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/emilycalandrelli2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/emilycalandrelli2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGive Emily a listen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"3763\"> (665)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Calandrelli does a nice job explaining her thesis that you don&#8217;t need to be a rocket scientist, or rather a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) scientist to understand <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=3763\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}