STEM - What does STEM mean to you?

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What does STEM education mean to you? Is STEM a method of instruction? Is STEM the component academic subjects and disciplines (science: life science, physical science, environmental science or engineering: mechanical, electrical, software)? What differentiates STEM learning over the past 20 years 2011-1996 and the preceding 20 years? What is the role of vocational education in STEM? Why is STEM+ARTS important to US education and economic innovation? How has STEM and specifically information technology changed the role and relationship of the modern library and patrons? Why is cyber fundamental to STEM but much, much bigger than STEM? Cyber, the real Sputnik Moment for US Education... How does STEM relate to civil participation and democratic ideals? How does STEM contribute or mediate problems for society such as cyberbullying, pollution, hunger, etc.?

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What does STEM mean to you? What does it mean to teachers and students at all levels of education in the US? I ask teachers to define STEM and what they consider ideal learning in my workshops in this is what they say in the form of a Haiku. A haiku is a 5, 7, 5 syllable poem that expresses a seasonal transformation--a change. Here is what teachers, students and communities have to say:

Authors, High School CTE Teachers and Community College Faculty, Roane State Community College Faculty Convocation and Regional Tech Prep Consortia Workshop, Roane, TN, August 24-25, 2011

Self determined child
iPhone in hand all day long
Educators scream

Para aprender bien
Busco un estilo propio
Asi aprendo

Translation
In order to study well
I search for my personal style
That’s how I learn

Opening ourselves
To changing technology
Transports students souls

Technological
Classrooms change daily
Confusion abounds

Unique meaning creates
your personal engagement
success will follow

Book meets computer
Creativity occurs
Between screen and page

Technology’s nice,
Enhances teaching, learning too, but
Human hands must type

Break it to make it
Become what it is
Creative engagement
Focused distraction

Access to teachers
May not be possible so
See learning center

Parachute opens
Diver adapts to changes
Soft landing results

Students filing in
Teacher in middle of group
Outcome: Cooperation

Evolve
From activity
New ideas now blossom
Sense emerges from questions
Aware

Hands on learning helps
The discipline makes meaning
We produce outcomes

Accidents abound
Innovation in teaching
Creates playfulness

Authors, Pre-Kindergarten-to-12th Grade Academic, Arts and CTE Teachers, Schools and Classrooms for Tomorrow: Instructional Leadership in the 21st Century, The David O. McKay School of Education and The Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 9-11, 2011

Keystrokes on canvas
Mixed paints in a petri dish
And murals of math

Soil, garden flowering
Chemistry, art, genetics
Future gardens grow

Students and teachers
Collaborate and invent
Working as one team

A techno elder
Opens new connections up
Becomes a newborn

Creator at heart
Not sure where to run
Adventure begins

Arts, humanities
Math, science, technology
Working together

Authors, 11th Grade to 14th Grade CTE Teachers and Administrators, Florida Career Pathways Network Conference, Ft. Meyers, FL, October 6-8, 2010

I tweet
You must hear me
To learn is to network
If you put it on Facebook
I’ll know

Talking
Creates ideas
Listening is crucial
Do not lose communication
Ever!

With technology
Students share and teachers learn
Achievement explodes

Fall dawns
Fresh trails to blaze
Minds to open and shape
Using hands success is achieved
New growth

Opening youthful minds
Achieving for great success
Movers and shakers

Sunrise
Seeds are planted
Preparing fertile ground
Crops are plentiful for harvest
Rich fields

Email, Tweet, Facebook
Global connectivity
All alone am I

Intrinsic learner
Teamwork is necessary
Metamorphosis

New day
Put together
All that works for students
Make ready for work—the future
Today!

Educating kids
Working, rewarding, changing
Successful students

Authors, 11th Grade to 14th Grade CTE/STEM Teachers and Administrators, Laramie Community College, Growing a New Generation (GANG) of Multi-Skill/Multi-Disciplinary Technicians for Wind Energy, Laramie, Wyoming, May 17-18, 2011

Change instructors.
Change student attitudes.
Redefine the future.

Open others’ eyes.
Don’t close your own mind.
Entire world follows.

Tech meets academic
Worlds collide; learning begins,
Rotors swirl and twirl

Rigor and projects.
Surprising results follow.
Everyone wants more.

Curriculum, bleah!
Help me learn what I need to know
By breaking the rules.

Project-based learning
Changes student perceptions
Solve real world problems

Learn by using hands
Theory becomes the real deal
Knowledge, skill connect

Partnerships create
Multi-disciplinary courses
Across the landscape

Wind beneath all wings.
Techs, teachers, industry aligned.
Our own energy.

No silo learning
STEAM is everyday
Guide at side is norm

Rigor and projects
Surprising results follow
Everyone wants more

Horizon tower looms,
I want to fix those someday,
5th grade daughter says.

Students climbing high
Expectations surrounding
View toward future

Turbines
High above us
Capturing energy
Creating successful workforce
from GANG

Authors, High School Teachers, Huether Lasallian (Christian Brothers) STEM Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 19-20, 2010

While reaching for stars
Keep Frankenstein at heart
Or worlds fall apart

Conduct of schools now
Calls us to a new culture
Of innovation

Bring care to part
Of STEM's reach into the future
Even the gospel

Climbing the mountain
Of innovation with care
For love, peace and zeal

Creative values
Faith with directed passion
Awareness is ours

Belief in science
Infused in all disciplines
Now and forever

Direction to All
Collaboration will All
A voice toward future

Faith leads us to think
Beyond our first thought of self
To community.

Authors, Pre-Kindergarten to 8th Grade Students (3-11 years of age), Teachers, and Parents, Evergreen, California, March 18-19, 2011

No mortgage, fees, fines
Just be the best you can be
Hassle, tension free.

I like lollipops
It is sweet and colorful
I like to eat it

Reading, writing, math
Coloring how nice to create
A picture of life

I like computers
Playing games are fun but
It needs batteries

In class
I want to learn
Something I don’t yet know

What fascinates me
Is technology and space--
The coolest subjects

Working together
Our focus is school & life
Children first always

When I grow up soon
Being a naturalist
Will be a good goal

Reading, writing, math, coloring
Oops done!
How nice…

Learning about life
Needed to be a doctor
Doctors are savers

Math, English and art
Encouraging the students
Positive results

I will learn nature
Nature is interesting
Just like life science

Hear the music play
Dancing on stage to compete
Winning the trophy

Rocks
Rocks can make you think
Igneous, metamorphic
Sedimentary

Any color any size
Superficially different
Deep down we are all same

I like playing games
Video games are awesome
T.V. is cool too

Platypus’ speech
Parent university turn
Robot’s switch

Here, there, everywhere
Works I see, do you? Let’s go…
Appreciate them

Learning about science.
Science is everywhere on Earth.
Earth science is the best.

Doctor - Important job
Saving lives every year
Taking care of many patients

Playing piano
Dreaming, singing peacefully
Stop! Get back to work!

Authors, P-20 Network (Community Stakeholders) and High School Students, Abilene, Texas, September 13, 2010

Creativity
Will expand when failure is
Not kept in shadows.

Create strong systems
For integrated learning
So children succeed.

The time to challenge
Is here and demands rigor.
First with measures placed high.

Globally prepared
In a world intertwined
By paperless measures.

Communities grow
When children learn and succeed.
Adults must listen!

Prepared for my life
Interdisciplinary
But football remains

All the venues merge
Technology—arts—science
Our future opens

Success in teamwork
Innovation and
Mountains are shaken

Children
Achieve success
Using innovation
For community problems
New world

Staying in the past
Isn’t good for our future.
Innovate today!
Kids are our future
Challenge them beyond normal
As they grow be proud

Learning, achieving
The playdough is the secret
Equilibrium

Authors, University Students and Faculty, Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) – Transformative Systems and Transdiscuplinary Synthesis of Business, Science and Engineering, Dallas, TX, June 6-11, 2010

"Civilizing Effect"
Social thought generates
Ideas and connectivity
To change the world now.

Education and
Knowledge have a power when
Transdisciplinary.

Love is
Commitment to
Each other. Beauty
Is adaptation to
The world.

"Concentration"
Listen to people,
Promote communication,
Be more tolerant.

Understand people
Embrace other perspectives
Help bring awareness

Preserve your culture
Understand other cultures
Cheer diversity

"Creativity"
Compassion, help, lover,
Listen and respond to act,
Respect shall follow.

Obstacles appear.
United we stand the way,
Fruitful the result.

Leap into vision,
Reaching out to form beauty—
Invigorate them.

"Compassion"
Be compassionate.
Add more diversity now.
Look inside your self.

Cross cultural bounds
Can be achieved through sharing
Thoughts, ideas and scars.

Listen to my thoughts.
We can sympathize as one.
Let’s immerse together.

"One"
Trust is mine to give
To collaborate in truth—
Permission I give.

To err is human.
We all must communicate
What moves our minds most.

Simplify your thoughts,
Our friendship depends on this—
A common language.

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