Transcription of STEM, STEM Education, STEMmania - Virginia Tech
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stem , stem education , stem mania By Mark Sanders I. n the 1990s, the national Science Foundation (NSF). A series of circumstances began using SMET as shorthand for science, math- ematics, engineering, and technology. When an NSF. has once more created an program officer complained that SMET sounded too much like smut, the stem acronym was born. As opportunity for technology recently as 2003, relatively few knew what it meant. Many that year asked if the stem education graduate program I. educators to develop and was beginning to envision had something to do with stem cell research. That was still very much the case in Fall 2005, implement new integrative when we the Technology education Program faculty at Virginia Tech launched our stem education graduate approaches to stem education program. 1 But when Americans learned the world was flat (Friedman, 2005), they quickly grew to believe China and championed by stem education India were on course to bypass America in the global econ- omy by outSTEM ming us.
n the 1990s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began using “SMET” as shorthand for “science, math- ... pedagogies, curriculum, research, and contempo-rary issues of each of the STEM education disciplines, and to new integrative ideas, approaches, instructional materials, and curriculum. In doing so, the program prepares/enables ...
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