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Aug 29
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Possible futures of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education.Posted by: Dave Moursund Tagged in: STEM Museum
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In December 2009 the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop on the future of STEM education. See http://www.mathcurriculumcenter.org/conferences/stem/index.php, and pay special attention to the Reflections Papers article by Sherry Hsi.
She proposes the creation of Cultural Commons—organizations collaborating to provide types of outside-of-school STEM education. She suggests a Science and Technology museum approach, drawing on her background from working at the Exploration in San Francisco.
I (Dave Moursund) current serve on the Board of Directors of a modest-sized science and technology center located in my hometown of Eugene, Oregon. The comments by Sherry Hsi seem particularly relevant to the education programs we offer in this center.
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Links to Related IAE Documents
ICT integrated into the discipline content areas.
Dealing with information overload by use of newsletters that give very brief summaries of articles of potential interest to you. Issue 30, November 2009.
Information Underload and Overload.
Knowledge Discovery and Data-mining.
Neuromythologies (brain science mythologies) in education.
Our Analog Human Brain in an Increasingly Digital World. Issue # 55 December 2010. Real world and video game realities. Issue # 40 April 2010.
What the Future is Bringing Us.
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written by Dave Moursund, August 29, 2010
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written by Dave Moursund, November 14, 2010
Perhaps it is because we are futurists in some sense, and lots of us hope for a future in which many current problems have decreased in magnitude. Maybe STEM can provide or contribute a great deal to providing solutions?
Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is cumulative, building on the work of people in the past. It is also interdisciplinary, drawing on ideas from the various STEM sub disciplines.
Progress in science is driven by creative, talented, smart people. These people come from all walks of life and from throughout the world. Their education is a combination of informal and formal. Moreover, they tend to be intrinsically motivated and have drive that leads them to work very hard to solve complex, challenging problems.
This type of analysis leads me to believe that we need to be doing better in both informal and formal STEM education.
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