- 1.Hydro Train Commercial (123hydro, 2007)
2. Global Competition
- It is a goal of the United States to maintain a global
leadership status.
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- President Obama announced the launch ofChange the Equation , a
CEO-led effort to dramatically improve education in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM), as part of his Educate to
Innovate campaign. (Office of the Press Secretary, 2010)
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- National Science Foundation Arobust U.S. science and
engineering research enterprise is necessary to maintain a global
edge in the competition for new ideas.(Dr. Subra Sures, 2011)
- The United States is falling behind countries such as China and
India.
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- When compared to other nations, the math and science
achievement of U.S. pupils and the rate of STEM degree attainment
appear inconsistent with a nation considered the world leader in
scientific innovation.(Kuenzi, 2008)
3. Wait a minute
- An emphasis on building science and math curriculum has been
around for over 60 years
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- National Science Foundation was established in 1950
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- Its stated mission is "To promote the progress of science; to
advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure
the national defense. (Mazuzan, 1994)
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- Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in
commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being
overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the
problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity,
security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have
historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and
the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity
that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was
unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments. (Bell,
1983)
4. However
- Since then, the world has changed
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- The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman (Thomas Friedman,
2005)
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- Synopsis: The author analyzes globalization, primarily in the
early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world
as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all
competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover
illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual
shift required for countries, companies and individuals to remain
competitive in a global market where historical and geographical
divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant. (2011)
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- General Overview:It will change all of our theories of
economies, politics and jobs. It will increase competition and
require not only an emphasis on new skills sets, but a much more
self reliant, creative and innovative mindset. (CapitolReader.com,
2005)
- Causing people to rethink education
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- Sir Ken Robinson:Changing Education Paradigms(Ken Robinson,
2010)
- Improving education is still a hot government topic:What does
the White House, County Music, President Obama, Fine Arts, Steam,
Arne Duncan, STEM, and Daniel Pink have to do with 21st Century
Education? Welcome to theFuture!(Gorman, 2009)
5. Statement of the Issue
- Traditional STEM programming is not enough to adequately
prepare our children for the global market.
6. STEM or STE+aMD?
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- What is the best way to teach math and science to prepare our
children for a highly technical world that requires critical
thinking, problem solving, innovation and creativity?
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- STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
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- STE+aMD: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and
Design
7. What is the difference? STEM - Traditional STEAMD -
Transformational Professional Development Educational Workshops,
Conferences, Additional Training Research and partner with experts
in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Design; Be the
"scientist, engineer, artist, mathematician, designer" Learning
Standards Content Skills embedded in Content Instructional Design
Separate content areas Integrated content areas, trans-disciplinary
Selected Areas of Study Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Design Teacher
Qualification Education Background Education Background with
additional coursework in STEAM fields Programming Adopt a textbook
or program Adopt a program with curriculum materials that utilizes
social learning of digital learners by researching many viewpoints
(including those of other countries)Definition of Technology Give a
child a laptop and access to the Internet Technology is the usage
and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of
organization in order to solve a problem or serve some purpose. 8.
What are people saying?
- Educational Organizations
9. No Right Brain Left Behind
- Can the best and brightest from America's creative industries
help solve the creativity crisis currently facing our
schools?That's the hope of No Right Brain Left Behind, a "speed
innovation challenge" designed to help schools make theleap from an
outmoded 19th century education model that's focused solely on
teaching students to know and apply information, to a
"conceptual-era" 21st century approach grounded in creative,
big-picture thinking.(Dwyer, 2011)
- Why does our education system need to make the shift? According
to an IBM poll of1,500 CEOs, creativity was identified "as the
number one competitive edge"of the future, meaning the "soft
skills" of the right brain need to be nurtured more than ever.
(Dwyer, 2011)
10. Statement of Dr. Ray M. Bowen, Chairman, National Science
Boardto theCommittee on Science, Space and TechnologyUnited States
House of RepresentativesonThe National Science Foundations FY 2012
Budget RequestMarch 11, 2011
- As our Nation recovers from economic recession, investments in
science and engineering research and education are ever
morecritical to laying the long-term foundation for S&T-based
innovation that drives the creation of new jobs and
industries.(Bowen, 2011)
- As other countries now actively seek to emulate our success by
building their own innovation infrastructures, we must be
evervigilant to enhance our own innovative capacity.(Bowen,
2011)
11. MeetVonny , Physics Teacher
- Now here is the kicker. To a person, when asked at the
conference what does a college professor want from an incoming
freshman, every professor in attendance I spoke with and who
participated in table discussions as well as the eight featured
speakers to the whole group, not a single one mentioned content!
They did not care about how much content, beyond the basics that
is, a student had in their STEM area. They can teach the content,
they all said. But what IS needed, and what IS presently lacking
from a majority of incoming college freshman, are skills. For STEM
areas, students need to be able to do 2 things according to every
professor: be able to read technical literature for understanding,
and have the ability to think about and find information to reach
logical conclusions, i.e. problem solving (this includes being able
to identify how to know what you dont know, and then be able to go
figure out the answer).Skills matter as much and more than specific
content for college. The underlying reason for this, by the way, is
that many believe we are in a paradigm shift of ages we are moving
from the Information Age into the Age of
Conceptualization.(Vondracek, 2010)
12.
- This is why higher-level thinking and problem solving and
creative skills come in, forSTEM fields have progressed from single
disciplinary to multi-disciplinary.We have moved beyond knowing
what is in the textbook, and into an age where textbooks in some
fields are changing every few months with new discovery students
must be trained to think on the fly and how to synthesize large
volumes of information and find the connections between topics from
different fields.(Vondracek, 2010)
13. What doesTEDhave to say?
- Math Curriculum Makeover, Dan Meyer
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- I'm here to tell you that the way our textbooks, particularly,
mass-adopted textbooks, teach math reasoning and patient problem
solving, it's functionally equivalent to turning on "Two and a Half
Men" and calling it a day.(Meyer, 2010)
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- And why this is an amazing time to be a math teacher right now
is because we have the tools to create this high-quality curriculum
in our front pocket. It's ubiquitous and fairly cheap. (Meyer,
2010)
14. MeetVi Hart ,a Mathemusician Doodling in Math Class: Snakes
and Graphs (Hart, 2010) 15. Is there a connection between math and
art?Nature by Numbers Cristbal Vila(Vila, 2010) 16. Is New Math
here again?
- Newsweeks July 2010issue highlighted another dimension. We are
in a creativity crisis, not simply an engineering one. The European
Union declared 2009 as the Year of Creativity and Chinese faculty
actually laughed when they found out the US education trends were
in standardized curriculum, rote memorization and nationalized
testing. Youre racing toward our old model. But were racing to
yours as fast as we can.
- My disillusionment with STEM developed when I saw their roster
of possible careers. Heavy on typical math, chemistry, engineering
and some computer science, you see no mention of, say, architecture
( someone will need to move our country toward sustainable design
), communication ( whos designing the future social networks other
than Facebook? ), visual and interaction designers ( whats beyond
the tablet? ) and product designers (they will betasked with
designing mass-scale temporary shelter for the increasing number of
natural disasters .) As a matter of fact, you dont really see
design mentioned at all. Its rather clear that Sir Ken Robinson
wasnt asked for his advice by the STEM coalition, nor was Daniel
Pink, author of A Whole New Mind.STEMs biggest flaw, and one we
keep enduring, is casting a shining light on all things
engineering, and relegating art and design to a dusty corner.
- Historys unique benefit is hindsight and I look to what we
learned from New Math to rethink how we might approach STEM. Fifty
years ago Ralph Raimi suggested that the first purpose of
educational reform was to change the climate in the hierarchy of
education so that our descendents would be able to advance the true
cause. Each generation will have its own true cause, of course, to
be heavily debated. However, Im hoping we can all agree on one
thing that the future is unknown, the rate of change is increasing
and we need to train our brains for a flexibility that can only be
achieved by playing with our potential. The right way is never one
way and our challenges are not one-dimensional.So why are we
approaching the future that way?(Richardson, 2011)
17. Falling Short
- The need to improve STEM education in the United States is no
recent revelation.Over the past 50 years, American leaders have
repeatedly discussed the need to enhance STEM education. Yet,
despite increasing federal efforts and spending, U.S. students
continue to under-perform in STEM subjects. In 2007, for instance,
the America COMPETES Act created new federal funding for STEM
education. The act included the creation of a new federal
initiative to train 70,000 new teachers in Advanced Placement and
International Baccalaureate courses, as well as initiatives
intended to provide existing teachers with STEM training and to
encourage university students pursuing STEM degrees to concurrently
obtain teaching certifications. D espite these efforts, there
remains a major shortage of qualified STEM teachers throughout the
nationand American students continue to perform worse than their
peers in STEM subjects.
- While alternative education programs have long been in
development, the American education system has continued to fixate
on the traditional school model.Alternative education programs
offer much promise for fostering innovation in education across the
country. Online or virtual learning programs, for example, allow a
break from the traditional model in which educational opportunity
is tied to ones zip code and enables students to gain access to the
best teachers regardless of where they are located. (Burke, &
McNeill, 2011)
18. Lets Find Out Together!
- Step 1: Inspire interest in the pursuit of finding out what
kind of math and science learning our students need and create a
group of teachers, parents students and community members
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- Growth centered strategy (Hoy & Miskel, 2008, p. 210)
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- Change is property of healthy organizations.
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- Change should imply progress.
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- Teachers have high potential for
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- the development and implementation of change.
19. Research
- Step 2: Research current and historical STEM programs. Research
what other countries are doing for math and science. If coming from
a traditional viewpoint, read the progressive side and vice versa.
Bring your ideas and questions to the group with the goal of
generating 1,000 comments.
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- To brainstorm properly, abide by these rules from Tom Kelleys
book, The Ten Faces of Innovation:
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- Go for Quantity: Good ideas emerge from lots of idea.
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- Encourage Wild Ideas: The right idea often flows
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- from what initially seems outlandish.
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- Be visual. Pictures unlock creativity.
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- Defer judgment. Think creatively first and critically
later.
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- One Conversation at a Time. Listen, be polite and build
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- Dan Pink, Page A Whole New Mind, p. 156,
20. Reflect
- Step 3: Reflect on current implementation of math and science
curriculum in the district.
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- Beliefs play a pivotal role in motivating individuals to act.
Individual beliefs about causality, fairness, intelligence, the
consequences of our actions, our ability to control our own destiny
are a few pivotal beliefs that influence behavior (Hoy &
Miskel, 2008, 146).
circle bridge 21. Purpose
- Step 4: Create a vision, mission and goals.
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- As desired states that an organization is trying to attain,
goals provide direction and motivation, reduce uncertainty for
participants, and represent standards of accountability (Hoy &
Miskel, 2008, p. 291).
My bed 22. Adopt
- Step 5: Adopt a math and science program that meets the
established goals.
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- The teaching-learning function is the technical core of the the
school (Hoy & Miskel, 2008, p. 54).
23. Professional Development
- Step 6: Plan a continuum of professional development
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- The systematic acquisition of knowledge that is, organized
formal education must supplement experience as the foundation for
increasing productive capacity and improving performance. But
knowledge and experience themselves are not enough. Events must be
seen as a whole pattern of change, not isolated snapshots.
Increasingly, successful performance will depend on the ability to
use concepts and theories as well as skills acquired through
experience to make the full patterns clearer and help us cope with
them (Hoy & Miskel, 2008, p. 473).
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- In other words, it is important for us to experience the
process to gain the understanding of how to learn and continue to
grow.
24. Development Continuumwith Possible Indicators
- From Traditional to Adoption and Adaptation: Skills and
Knowledge training
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- Advanced coursework in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art,
Math and Design
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- Build partnership with experts in the fields of Science,
Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Design
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- Understand that change can involve fear, anger and frustration
help people work through this and learn new strategies
- Transition: Infusion of new ideas into teaching and
learning
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- Collaborative team teaching in the content areas
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- Find and join national and local math and science
opportunities
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- Redesign of learning spaces
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- Participation in global learning communities
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- Experimentation, lots of questions as old beliefs are replaced
with new ones, misunderstanding about what new instruction looks
and feels like, dispel misconceptions
25.
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- Teachers and students have become the scientist, engineer,
artist, mathematician and/or designer through participation in
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math and Design research and
development learning communities
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- The systematic acquisition of knowledge that is, the organized
formal education must supplement experience as the foundation for
increasing productive capacity and improving performance. But
knowledge and experience themselves is not enough. Events must be
seen as a whole pattern of change, not isolated snapshots.
Increasingly, successful performance will depend on the ability to
use concepts and theories as well as skills acquired through
experience to make the full patterns clearer and help us cope with
them (Hoy & Miskel, 2008, p. 473).
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- Empowerment, leadership, voice of accomplishment
26.
- Step 7: Look for patterns of success and weaknesses and adapt
instruction to accommodate for these learners
Funny socks 27.
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- Report out to fellow teachers, school members and community by
modeling the social learning process.
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- Reflect on implementation, adapt and modify along the way
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- Document patterns, trends, connections and unanticipated
results
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- School effectiveness is a dynamic concept that has multiple
dimensions, multiple stakeholders and multiple environmental
constraints (Hoy & Miskel, 2008, p. 321).
28. Impact
- Increased excitement and motivation about math and science by
both teachers and students
- Increased quality of math and science instruction
- Increased performance of student achievement in math and
science
- Increased enrollment in high school and college STEM related
courses of study
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- Educating students in the sciences, technology, engineering,
and math also creates people who are capable of finding solutions
to the problems faced by the world today.(Peterson, 2009)
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- A democratic society is founded on the premise that the
electorate is sufficiently informed to make thoughtful decisions.
The tremendous rate of technological change and globalization has
increased the need for the electorate to keep current on multiple,
complex topics.(2006)
29. WOW!
- That has always been America's strength, because America was,
and for now still is, the world's greatest dream machine. Thomas L.
Friedman
Manhattan Bridge Construction 1909 Manhattan Bridge at Night 30.
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