STEM & Empathy: What's the Promise
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This document discusses expanding STEM education to be more inclusive and emphasize empathy. It notes that while STEM is seen as an economic engine, many students, especially girls and underrepresented groups, leave the STEM path early on. It proposes a STEM++ approach that incorporates arts, creativity, design thinking, and entrepreneurship to engage more students. Promising practices discussed include programs that partner schools with communities and real-world work opportunities. The goal is to create education ecosystems with open exploration and challenges that spot opportunities for innovation and share best practices to spread inclusion in STEM.
STEM & Empathy: What's the Promise
- 1. STEM & Empathy Mark Basnage @mbasnage @startempathy #STEMandEmpathy #STEMplusplus
- 5. and yet…
- 10. what about K-16?
- 11. girls and underrepresented students are kicked off the STEM path
- 12. Elementary School exposure, access sense of wonder freedom to explore teacher comfort/fluency dead curricula… or none
- 13. Middle School algebra engaging curricula identity (“I’m not a math person”) “fast = smart”
- 15. Community College & University “the first C” stereotype threat non-cognitive issues
- 16. other issues • STEM programs as content only • teacher isolation • educational landscape fragmentation • turnover • STEM teachers/administrators not always guiltless
- 17. yet money is being spent
- 19. STEM++ enlarged approaches to STEM increases opportunities for underrepresented students
- 20. Promising Practices • ++ underrepresented students • + empathy • + innovation and entrepreneurship • + arts and creativity • + design thinking
- 21. Listen for… • diversity of geography, types of setting (public, private, K-12/higher ed, etc) • who plays a role — not always led by STEM faculty • ways STEM & empathy connect • inspiration, not prescription
- 23. Rich K-8 grade programs and spaces that engage students and teachers in open ended exploration and challenges in • making • technology • design thinking • entrepreneurship and change making
- 26. High School students learn IT and CS while supporting the technology and innovation efforts in their own school. + Real-life work opportunities for older students and young alumni.
- 29. Susan Amrose
- 30. room for lots of good work to be done
- 31. People Need Maps K-4 5-8 9-12 CC Univ
- 33. We need to talk to each other, build bridges
- 34. We need tools to know how to spot opportunities, how to try things. How to innovate.
- 35. We need to share what’s working, and how to spread and scale.
- 36. “Reclaim the role of the teacher so that s/he is an architect”
- 37. Taking a “team of teams approach”
- 38. ~ 1,000,000 K-12 students in the Bay Area
- 39. If we can’t solve it here, then where?
- 40. by 2025…
- 41. by 2020, no 8th grader rules herself out of STEM
- 42. Next steps today • roadmaps and toolkits • stakeholder needs and opportunities
- 44. creating ecosystems of opportunity in education