3. Schools around the country are
STEM-washing, using the term
STEM to gain recognition and
hope to attract funding.
STEM is the
buzzword of the
moment.
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6. How many of you have ever claimed
one or more of the areas of STEM as
your content area?
Examples:
We are the “T & E” of STEM!
I teach TECHNOLOGY, which is more than computers!
The physics teachers can’t teach engineering. It is part of
the CSPG for Technology Education!
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7. • There are a lot of other teachers claiming the “T” in
STEM
Instructional Technology
Educational Technology
Technology Classes (ie. Computers)
Technology Integration (ie. Using computers for learning)
Technology Coach (ie. Person identified to coach teachers
in using instructional technology)
• Science claims the “S” in STEM, but did you know…
The NGSS include standards for Engineering & Technology
• Math claims the “M”, but does not show interest in STEM
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8. To understand STEM, M helps
No it
to begin by understanding
No S M
Science, Technology, Engineeri
No T E
ng, and Math. T
No S M
No S
In other words, STEM literacy
No T
includes an understanding of all
No E
four areasS of STEM. M
YES! T E
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9. Science
Systematized knowledge
derived from observation,
study, and experimentation
carried on in order to
determine the nature or
principle of what is being
studied; Utilizes a process
of inquiry. 9
10. Technology
The system by which a
society provides its
members with those things
needed or desired; A
method or process for
handling a specific
technical problem; Utilizes
a process of design.10
11. Engineering
The discipline and profession
of acquiring and applying
technical, scientific, and
mathematical knowledge to
design and implement
materials, structures, devices,
systems, and processes that
realize a desired objective;
Utilizes a process of design.
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12. Mathematics
The group of sciences
dealing with
quantities, magnitudes, a
nd forms, and their
relationships and
attributes by the use of
numbers and symbols;
Utilizes a process of
problem-solving. 12
13. Dr. Judith Ramaley coined the term
"STEM" when she was the Assistant
Director of the Education and
Human Resources Directorate at the
National Science Foundation from
2001 to 2004. Previously, the acronym
was SMET. "I did so because science and math support
the other two disciplines and because STEM sounds
nicer than SMET," Dr. Ramaley wrote. "The older term
subtly implies that science and math came first or were
better. The newer term suggests a meaningful
connection among them.” 13
14. Technology Engineering Mathematics Science
The system by which a The discipline and The group of sciences Systematized
society provides its profession of acquiring and dealing with knowledge derived from
members with those applying quantities, magnitudes, observation, study, and
things needed or desired; technical, scientific, and and forms, and their experimentation carried
a method or process for mathematical knowledge to relationships and on in order to determine
handling a specific design and implement attributes by the use of the nature or principle of
technical problem. materials, structures, device numbers and symbols. what is being studied.
s, systems, and processes
that realize a desired
objective.
Technological Design Engineering Design Problem Solving Scientific Inquiry
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15. If you are going disciplines… claim,” it is
It From separate to that claiming
is often thought “stake a
important to fully understand what it is
Science
something brings with it certain rights
Mathematics
that you are right to … to integration
such Technology claiming. the only content
as the be
Engineering STEM education is an intentional,
area that can teach particular content.
integrative approach to teaching and
We are the “T & E” in STEM represents
learning, in which students uncover
and acquire a cohesive set of concepts,
claiming components within something
competencies, and dispositions of
But, claiming any part of a larger entity
science, technology, engineering, and
that should be greater than the sum of its
mathematics that they transfer and
brings with it great responsibility. In
apply in both academic and real-world
parts – it is to add value as the “T & E.”
STEM STEM.
contexts, in order to be globally
competitive in the 21st Century.
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16. There are two roads you can take
as a technology education teacher…
Claim “T & E” as a right.
OR
Claim “T & E” as a responsibility.
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17. There may be things that you are
What else can
already doing…
Technology &
TSA, FIRST, and other student competitions
Engineering
Technology & Engineering courses that also
incorporate math or science concepts
educators do to
Use of STEM design challenges in T&E courses
addmath teacher
Collaborating with a science or
value?
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18. STEM Professional Learning Community
• Face-to-face at your school
• Virtual at your school or in your district
• Virtual extending beyond your district
http://www.mspkmd.net/blasts/plc.php
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19. STEMsolar energy
Make School-wide theme for year
Engineer the tools of
economical scientific discovery
Advance health informatics Manage the nitrogen cycle
Advance personalized Restore and improve urban
learning infrastructure
Engineer better medicines Reverse engineer the brain
Prevent nuclear terror Enhance virtual reality
Provide access to clean
Provide energy from fusion
water
Develop carbon
Secure cyberspace
MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATIONmethods
sequestration
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20. School-wide STEM Project
Integrative, project-based learning that
involves collaboration between
science, technology & engineering
INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION
education, and mathematics teachers
for afocus is on the common content and skills acrossfor ALL
The specified period of time disciplines.
Common learnings that are embedded in separate disciplines are
STUDENTS. the connections.
“chunked” to emphasize
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21. STEM-based Curriculum Alignment
Curriculum mapping that brings together
science, technology & engineering
education, and math educators to develop
integrative curriculum, instead of separate
and isolated curriculum. INTEGRATION
METADISCIPLINARY
The focus in on the deliberate integration of disciplines through a
meaningful context; Incorporates integrated and disciplinary learning
to strategically yield learning that is greater than the sum of the parts.
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22. Merge into a STEM department
• Combined professional development
• Combined department meetings
• Combined common planning time
• Combined budgeting & ordering
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STEM is catchy, but doesn’t accurately capture the relationships of the four disciplines. First of all, the four disciplines should be represented as a continuum of disciplines that are all part of the same content “umbrella.”Technology and science belong on the two end of the continuum because these are the two core disciplines that share the primary relationship. Math belongs beside science because technically, all math is a group of sciences.Engineering belongs beside technology because of their similar processes, but engineering also belongs beside math because it is the application of advanced math that is partly responsible for the differences between technology and engineering.
Science – (noun) 1. Systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. 2. Any specific branch of scientific knowledge, esp. one concerned with establishing and systematizing facts, principles, and methods, as by experiments and hypotheses.Mathematics – (noun) 1. The group of sciences (including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, etc.) dealing with quantities, magnitudes, and forms, and their relationships, attributes, etc., by the use of numbers and symbols 2. The act or process of using any of these sciences; computation. NOTE: Mathematics is not the language of science, it is a science!Technology – (noun) 1. The study of the practical or industrial arts, applied sciences, etc. 2. a method or a process for handling a specific technical problem 3. the system by which a society provides its members with those things needed or desired.Engineering – (noun) The discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific, and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.