stem & empathy: what's the promise
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STEM & Empathy
Mark Basnage
@mbasnage @startempathy
#STEMandEmpathy #STEMplusplus
The Problem Space
>BrazilRussiaItalyIndiaCanada…
inside the economic engine
and yet…
STEM pipleline
STEM pipeline
what about K-16?
girls and underrepresented students
are kicked off the STEM path
Elementary School
exposure, access sense of wonder
freedom to explore teacher comfort/fluency
dead curricula… or none
Middle School
algebra engaging curricula
identity (“I’m not a math person”) “fast = smart”
High School
sorting/ tracking identity
Community College & University
“the first C” stereotype threat
non-cognitive issues
other issues• STEM programs as content only
• teacher isolation
• educational landscape fragmentation
• turnover
• STEM teachers/administrators not always guiltless
yet money is being spent
Let’s Change This
STEM++
enlarged approaches to STEM increases opportunities for underrepresented students
Promising Practices• ++ underrepresented students
• + empathy
• + innovation and entrepreneurship
• + arts and creativity
• + design thinking
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
community college
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
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.
Susan Amrose
room for lots of good work to be done
People Need Maps
K-45-8 9-12 CC
Univ
CodeNow
CodeHS
CodeRacercode.org
CodeSchool
GirlsWhoCode
BlackGirlsCode
Coursera
Udacity
EdXCodea
She++
GrokLearning
HacketyHackGirlsTeachingGirlsToCode
Udemy
MIT AppInventor
CampSciGirl
Tequity
We need to talk to each other, build bridges
We need tools to know how to spot opportunities, how to try things. How to innovate.
We need to share what’s working, and how to spread and scale.
“Reclaim the role of the teacher so that s/he is an architect”
Taking a “team of teams approach”
~ 1,000,000 K-12 students in the Bay Area
If we can’t solve it here, then where?
by 2025…
by 2020, no 8th grader rules herself out of STEM
Next steps today
• roadmaps and toolkits
• stakeholder needs and opportunities
Save the date!
++EMST1510
10/10/2015
creating ecosystems of opportunity in education