Beyond the subject silos in STEM The case for looking sideways in the secondary school curriculum Frank Banks Emeritus Professor Open University & David.

Beyond the subject silos in STEMThe case for looking sideways in the secondary school

curriculum

Frank Banks Emeritus Professor Open University

& David Barlex Director Nuffield Design & Technology

Presentation Overview

• S.T.E.M or STEM• Significance of teachers • The interviews• In the silo• Looking sideways• Significance revisited

STEMIn School

STEM

Outside School

S.T.E.M or STEM?

Fullan and Stiegelbauer

“Educational change depends on what teachers do and think – it’s as simple and complex as that.”

Support for design decisions through being empirical

Using scientific knowledge to support technical choices

Torben Steeg

Celia Hoyles

Designing devices with embedded mathematics

Respect task authenticity

Peter Campbell

Encouraging connections

Encouraging investigations

In the silo – S.T.E.M

Ella Yonai - Israel Marcus Berlatzjy - Argentina

Use the aspiration to be an astronaut to enhance science teaching

Three different conceptions of technology are harming the T in S.T.E.M

Looking sideways - STEM

Ronit Perez - Israel Vitor Soares Mann - Brazil

Integrate the subjects to reduce the gap between learning at school and ‘real’ life

Look sideways by combining formal and informal approaches

STEM as knowledge creation

• Investigate state of intellectual capital

• Manage the process of knowledge creation

• Validate the created knowledge

• Disseminate the created knowledge

• Understand the nature of your own and other subjects through conversation

• Teach in the light of STEM• Evaluate the

effectiveness of your new teaching

• Spread the word through conversation, networking and publication David Hargreaves 1998

S T E M

Black in Dillon & Maguire

Teachers are the sole and essential means to educational improvement. If they do not share the aims, and do not want to do what needs to be done, it cannot happen effectively.

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