STEM@theTech-Preso

This document discusses several misconceptions around standardized testing and content standards. It notes that teaching to standards does not mean "teaching to the test" but rather developing complex assessments of what is most important for students to learn. It also addresses the misconception that there is too much content, pointing out standards are intended to prioritize what is most essential. The document also mentions TIMSS, an international assessment, and notes average US student performance is lower than international peers in reading, math and science. It concludes by suggesting schools focus research on improving student learning in specific units or topics.

2011 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC)February 2-4, 2011 - San Antonio, TX Transforming the Education of Future Generations in Engineering and Engineering Technology Jan Morrison President, TIES

Far too often, school leaders fail to consider how technology might dramatically improve teaching and learning, and schools frequently acquire digital devices without discrete learning goals and ultimately use these devices in ways that fail to adequately serve students, schools, or taxpayers.

Washington's education system ranks low nationally in spending per student. This is forcing businesses to import highly educated employees and is contributing to poor student performance. Only 16 out of 100 Washington students who enter college complete a degree within 6 years. Due to budget cuts, the University of Washington has lost teaching positions and offers fewer courses, potentially hurting students. Improving education is seen as important to the state's economic future.

Catalyzed by technology, education is undergoing major change towards greater personalization and access. Many tools and instructional models are being reimagined using technology, from personalized and interactive literature to credentialing and e-portfolios. New blended learning models like lab rotation and flex rotation combine online and classroom instruction. Venture capital is increasingly flowing into educational technology startups.

We’re living in a time of tremendous technological change. In the next five years, another billion people will gain access to the internet. By 2020, 80% of the adults on Earth will have a smartphone, double what it is today. We started the Seed Fund to seek out those places where technological change might be leveraged to improve education, and there is much to improve about our current system. One of the most troubling trends of the last decade is the decrease in educational mobility. As a country, we are doing worse than most at educating our neediest kids which now account for just over half of public school children. For our neediest children, the problems are cumulative. A series of school failures and missed opportunities add up to an education of accumulated disadvantage, a reverse Matthew Effect of sorts. Our team is focused on how technology can be used to reduce and even eliminate these obstacles so that our school system is an escalator to opportunity for all. We’ve invested in over 40 teams scaling ideas to improve our education system by empowering students, educators and families with the best tools technology has to offer. Through this lens, we share our second ReImaginED deck. Inspired by KPCB’s Mary Meeker’s widely shared Internet Trends deck, we set out to expose data about our K-12 education system and highlight some of the innovations in education technology. The goal of this deck is to draw out high level trends so it doesn’t include the human stories on the other side of these numbers and charts, see here for some of those. In ReimaginED 2015 (building off the original published over a year ago), we review the latest systemic challenges, landscape shifts, and emerging innovations that are helping to solve these problems. Let us know about other innovation trends you are seeing in the comments below or by sharing this on twitter, #ReimaginED2015. (Cross-post from www.newschools.org/blog/reimagined2015, original post by Jennifer Carolan and David Havens)

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers are some of the hottest jobs in Pennsylvania. In this webinar, we introduce you to some of the most in-demand STEM careers and share with you some resources for helping your son or daughter begin exploring all the exciting opportunities that are available.

This presentation focuses on women in engineering majors, the challenges they face, and what can be done to encourage more women to enter engineering programs.

Group B Group C Group D 41 This model allows for more individualized instruction and practice time using technology, while still having face-to-face teacher support. The rotation ensures equitable access to both online and offline learning experiences. Flipped Classroom 42 Students watch video lectures at home as homework Class time is spent on projects, exercises and collaboration Homework: Watch lecture videos Class time: Projects, exercises, collaboration

The document summarizes various accolades and statistics about Gainesville, Florida that position it as an innovative city with a strong knowledge economy. It highlights Gainesville's rankings as a top city for young professionals, education, and job growth. The local universities and research institutions are noted as key drivers of the regional economy in fields like biotechnology, renewable energy, and agriculture.

The document discusses how America's technology industry relies on high-skilled immigrants and faces a shortage of such workers. It notes that many foreign students studying in top US universities cannot stay due to immigration policy. As a result, US companies are prevented from hiring enough high-skilled immigrants and some jobs are moving overseas. The document argues for immigration reform that addresses this shortage and helps US tech companies recruit more high-skilled talent globally in order to remain competitive.

Our students will face unprecedented global challenges, competition and change. A 21st century education must must these challenges and opportunities. Gregory Washington outlines strategies for success for K-12 educators.

The U.S. Bureau of labor Statistics projects STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) related careers will grow to more than 9 million between 2012 and 2022, an increase of 1 million jobs in the 10-year time span. To meet this growing trend, school districts are adopting STEM-based curriculums to better prepare students for the 21st Century workforce demand through the development of specialized skills, critical thinking, and creative problem solving techniques. This session will explore how the recently completed Marysville STEM Academy has transformed the educational environment and discuss the inclusion of public and private partnerships to promote business and industry engagement in STEM education. Diane Mankins, Superintendent, and Kathy McKinniss, Principal, of Marysville Exempted Village Schools, will join Gary Sebach, OHM Advisors’ Director of Architecture, to discuss how a vacant school in the Marysville EVS District was converted into a creative, collaborative, and unique learning environment to support STEM related education

Dr. Gregory Washington, Dean of UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering, delivers a riveting message to provoke educators in the NSF IUSE Ideas lab to action. The world is changing rapidly, but we still educate the same way. We need a STEM-o-lution!

This document discusses Project Lead The Way (PLTW), an organization that prepares K-12 students for STEM careers through technology and engineering courses. It provides statistics on PLTW's middle school Gateway to Technology and high school Pathway to Engineering programs. Key points: - PLTW has over 10,000 students enrolled across 80 middle schools in its Gateway to Technology program. - At the high school level, Pathway to Engineering has grown from 2 schools in 2001 to 96 schools and over 10,000 students in 2011-12 across 59 districts. - PLTW students are more likely to pursue postsecondary STEM degrees than the national average.

The document discusses managing high-performing teams in technology projects. It provides guidelines for creating successful teams, including defining goals, providing professional growth opportunities, and ensuring adequate resources. It also discusses managing resistance to technology changes by creating a common environment, training programs, and streamlined processes. This allows for improvements like increased accuracy, communication and productivity while reducing costs. The roles and responsibilities of strategic managers, project managers, and operational managers in team leadership are also outlined.

The document provides an overview of strategic planning. It defines strategic planning as determining an organization's current state, desired future state, and how to get there. The generic strategic planning process involves defining the current state, analyzing trends, defining the future state, analyzing gaps between current and future states, and developing a plan. Key aspects of the process include preparing the organization, conducting SWOT and customer analyses, defining visions and roadmaps, overcoming obstacles, and promoting the resulting plan. The document emphasizes involving stakeholders, being flexible, and reviewing progress.

This document provides steps to help individuals discover their core values and create a personal mission statement. It involves identifying top values from a provided list, defining each value, ranking them in order of importance, reflecting on desired relationships and legacy, and incorporating spiritual beliefs to write a concise mission statement. The goal is for individuals to learn who they are and who they want to become by gaining clarity on their guiding principles and purpose.

This document provides an overview of the important steps for starting a business in California, including preliminary steps like choosing a business name and structure, writing business and marketing plans, and reserving the business name. It also discusses the process of formalizing the legal business structure through incorporation, forming an S corporation, limited liability company (LLC), or general partnership. Finally, it covers obtaining necessary licenses, permits and registrations at the federal level like an employer identification number and requirements with the state Franchise Tax Board and Secretary of State.

The document summarizes findings from a market research study on small and medium sized businesses. It identifies key decision makers and influencers for technology purchases as business owners for companies with less than 5 employees and more specialized staff for larger companies. The document also recommends positioning strategies for different company sizes, with easy-to-use solutions targeted towards very small businesses and more comprehensive online solutions targeted at mid-sized businesses. It assessed different segments' technology adoption rates and identified opportunities to attract holdouts and move novice users to larger service offerings.

The document proposes establishing a centralized Customer Marketing Team to better leverage customer references and testimonials across all of Inprise's marketing and sales activities. Currently, the process of utilizing customer success is limited due to minimal staffing, lack of sales and executive involvement, and being too product-focused rather than focused on solutions. The new process would involve a team coordinating all customer activities, understanding the sales process, gaining direct executive involvement, being solution-focused, aligning with marketing objectives, incentivizing customer participation, and having a customer database. The team would include representatives from various departments and work closely with sales, product marketing, PR, and vertical programs.

This document provides a market segmentation and entry strategy project for BusinessProjects.com. It identifies key market segments like consulting, finance, and legal and recommends a two-pronged entry strategy of targeting individuals and departments from the bottom-up while also positioning BusinessProjects as the platform for enterprise virtual private networks to enter from the top-down. It profiles competitors and identifies BusinessProjects' differentiators as organizing all project materials in one place to smooth boundaries between applications. The document concludes with recommendations to rapidly develop new services through partners and target key decision makers.

The document discusses opportunities and challenges for educational institutions in China. It provides an overview of China's education system and higher education figures. Opportunities include English language training, corporate training, distance education programs, and student exchanges. However, market entry challenges include difficulties obtaining visas, finding partners, and navigating regulations. Joint degree programs with Chinese universities are possible but require an approval process. The educational software and Olympic industries also present opportunities, while non-degree programs have fewer regulations.

This document provides an overview of principles for effective language teaching. It discusses three main categories of principles: cognitive principles, social principles, and socio-linguistic principles. For cognitive principles, it examines theories of automaticity of acquisition and meaningful learning. It argues that both are important, contradicting each other, and that meaningful learning which associates new concepts with existing knowledge is key. The document also provides brief introductions to the other principle categories and chapters that will further explore language teaching methods, paradigms, curriculum design, and classroom management strategies.

The Evolution of the Leadership Principle in the Post-Industrial Era: From Dominance to Meaning-Making

The document provides an overview of ABC Inc.'s five-step partnering process for business development. The steps include: 1) identifying strategic objectives for partnering; 2) developing a partnering plan; 3) selecting alliance partner targets; 4) contacting alliance partner targets; and 5) creating a proposal. Key aspects of each step are outlined, such as determining strategic needs and bargaining chips, selecting partners that meet certain criteria, and designing responsibility lists for contacting targets. The overall process aims to help ABC Inc. effectively identify and negotiate partnering arrangements that meet strategic objectives.

This document outlines an activity where colleagues identify their top 5 personal values from a list in order to get to know each other better and build trust within the organization. Building trust and strong social relationships between colleagues is important for creating an effective work environment and school culture. Participants are instructed to privately select their most important values from a list of words representing common values. Sharing these top values provides insight into individuals' perspectives and starts to build the social connections necessary for generating trust within the school.

Here are a few potential inhibiting factors for why many attempts at school reform fail to achieve their goals according to the article: - Lack of sustained effort and commitment over time. Large-scale reform requires years of focused effort to change teaching practices, but governments and leaders often lose patience or commitment. - Failure to build capacity and engage all levels of the system. Top-down mandates are not enough, reform must engage educators, schools and districts to change practices from the ground up. - Not focusing on the right drivers of change. Some reforms emphasize the wrong strategies like accountability over developing teaching skills. - Complexity of the task. Deep cultural change in thousands of classrooms and schools is an immense challenge that

This document discusses findings from neuroscience research on learning and memory. It provides 4 negative findings and 5 positive findings. The negative findings are: 1) We have no intrinsic motivation to learn academic material, 2) There is no evidence for learning transfer or multiple intelligences, 3) Memories are completely unstable with each recall, 4) Learning does not improve general intelligence. The 5 positive findings are mechanisms that promote short-term learning becoming long-term, including innate learning programs, repetition of information, excitement during learning, eating carbohydrates after learning, and 8-9 hours of sleep after learning.