What is STREAM Education & Why is It Gaining Popularity? About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century.
What Is STEM? (And STEAM, and STREAM?) – Niche Blog. Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash You could say STEM is evolving.
Mutating, even. It has sprung another two heads, and educators are currently navigating the process of turning STEM into STEAM, or even STREAM. The History of STEM vs. STEAM Education (and the Rise of STREAM) As a technology educator with a K–8 undergraduate degree, creation with technology has always been at the heart of my assignments.
Students in my technology classes have often infused what they have learned in class into the projects I assigned. I haven’t always taught technology though. While teaching middle school language arts, I was asked to add math into lessons. For my students, process writing was a great way to reinforce what they were learning in pre-algebra, and reading mathematical fiction such as Chasing Vermeer allowed students to see how math mysteries could be solved. STEM Needs to Be Updated to STREAM. In 2006 there was a term that started to grow in the United States— STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
The basis of the STEM movement was the growing concern that our students were not prepared for the high-tech jobs of the future. Just a year later a well-know researcher, Georgette Yakman, announced the need to include the arts in STEM programs; thus STEM became STEAM. Georgette took the inclusion of the arts and expanded on how it relates to the other STEM subjects.
Her well-know quote is “Science and technology, interpreted through engineering and the arts, all based in elements of mathematics.” This is a rich beginning to our dive into the 21st century job market... but! We have lost sight of one very important aspect of our education and all jobs, be they high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech. Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard. ELA, or English Language Arts, is a critical component of the core standards. WHERE WILL STEAMM TAKE YOU? Issue 02. PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit. Both project-based learning and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) education are growing rapidly in our schools.
Some schools are doing STEAM, some are doing PBL, and some are leveraging the strengths of both. Both PBL and STEAM help schools target rigorous learning and problem solving. Resources for STEAM. The Benefits of STEAM STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is Key to Strong Economy: Learn how adding art and design elements to STEM approaches may help students be better prepared to solve the creative problems of the future.
(Edutopia, 2012) The Art of Thinking Like a Scientist: Read about the links between the arts and STEM. STEM vs STEAM: What’s Better? Science, technology, engineering, and math, otherwise known as STEM, has become a major focal point in today’s schools.
However, individuals are now proposing that art be added into the mix to make STEAM, which would be STEM + Art = STEAM. The goal of this would be to take science, math, and technology and add an art component to it. This has led to quite some controversy and debate. Here we will take a brief look at the two, to see how they both measure up. Let’s first take a look at where STEM education originated. So individuals in the public and the private sector decided that our education system needed to change, or should I say adapt what they were focusing on. The Maker Movement: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants to Own the Future.
Should we worry that making in the classroom is just the new-new thing, soon to be replaced by some other newer new-new thing?
Should we worry that lots of schools will run out and buy 3D printers without thinking about what they will do with them? Yes, I think we should worry, but not give up! To prevent this, I like to combine the work of education pioneers and giants with the new work of scholars to show that this is more than just a fad or a chance for a shopping spree. I also think that "making" shouldn't be just making anything. Schools have a tendency to cherry-pick the easiest parts of implementing complex ideas. Stem beyond the acronym (1) Blikstein Martinez Pang Meaningful Making book. Meaningful Making 2. Educational Leadership STEM for All Tinkering Is Serious Play. Newest C Toolkit. K 3 Coaching Kit.pdf (http tinyurl.com AUNE CSP k3) Critical Skills Level 1 Coaching Kit (http tinyurl.com AUNE CSP 1)