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STEM in 3-D
Many comments about STEM seem to reflect the ongoing traditions of “silo-thinking”, promoting favored “channels” of instruction, while knocking down other viable approaches for STEM. As a retired...
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STEM in a Sentence
When talking about Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) in education, we need more precise descriptions of WHAT the topic content of science is, what we DO with science, and how we APPLY it to...
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Using “Information Mapping” Techniques to Generate “Reusable Learning Objects”
The “instructional design” that I am working with is a modification of the “information mapping” (IM) work of Robert E. Horn. It is based on the idea that various “blocks” of information can be set...
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Transforming the STEM Curriculum with an Integrated 3-D Framework
In my suggestions on various discussion groups for a “Comprehensive STEM Curriculum Framework for the 21st Century”, I describe the need for a multi-dimensional view using a transformational “systems...
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STEM as a Sandwich? Might be good!
Technology, as a whole, is an important part of the STEM curriculum in that it shares some “habits of mind”, as compared to the language, arts, and social science subject areas. While science utilizes...
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Flying John Boyds “OODA Loop” through STEM
John Boyd’s contribution to systems thinking was the “OODA Loop” – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act – with a feedback loop that brings the results back into a new cycle. As a combat fighter pilot...
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An Education “Transformation” in this Decade? Yes!
Throughout a variety of continued blog discussions, there appears to be a lot of repetitive bashing of the current “education system”, as though it were some dystopian governmental monolith,...
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Blame Teachers for Common Core?
Having participated with South Dakota science and math groups, from the first NSF-SSI (Statewide Systemic Initiative) in 1991, to 2009 when we handed off our final report (which merged into CCSS), we...
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Why Use Carbon (Technology), When We Have Silicon?
“… year after year, HS juniors ALWAYS scored lower than the sophomores on the middle school-level items.” The math instructors at my technical college generalized that “math skills have a half-life of...
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