CFOS Seminar Sept. 9: STEM teaching in rural Alaska
September 8, 2020
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences will hold its second weekly seminar Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. via Zoom.
The talk will be offered by Sean Asiq艂uq Topkok, an associate professor jointly appointed
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STEM Teaching in Rural Alaska Using Traditional Knowledge Systems
In this talk, Topkok will discuss a research project funded by the National Science Foundation that supports teaching science, technology, engineering and math in rural areas using Indigenous cultural systems. Topkok is part of a team from 性欲社 that is working with the Northwest Arctic Borough School District to develop STEM lessons utilizing I帽upiaq knowledge systems and university research for middle-school-age students in three villages. The project is unique in that community members identified the research topic using a phrase an I帽upiaq person would say before going out hunting 鈥 "Uvvatuq naluallangniaqtugut," or, 鈥I humbly hope we run into game.鈥
Meeting ID: 925 9428 5292, passcode: 396929
For more information, email Matthew Wooller at mjwooller@alaska.edu.