We're excited to be kicking off the Educating STEM series at the Southern Tier West BOCES Center in Salamanca NY on December 17. We'll be introducing educators interested in STEM to the design process, which will provide a framework for "providing a focus on the pedagogical understandings for STEM education that bring context to integrated context." Our focus will be to explore the expedition of STEM, and how innovation, creativity, curiosity and wonder can be the essential elements that form the foundation of an integrated approach to education. Joining the session through a videoconference will be Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, who will provide additional context for STEM through an interactive discussion with the participants. Other speakers in the series include Sylvia Martinez who will be discussing invention and Larry Rosenstock, who will present on inquiry. Kim Navarroli and Paul Murawski from our Grand Island office complete the series by engaging the participants in a presentation about STEM in New York.
Here are the resources that we'll be using in the first session:
Innovation does not come from the top down, it comes from decentralization and freedom to explore @sepkamvar #MediaLabIO
Inspiring Spaces
- Booker T. Washington STEM Academy | CannonDesign
- Lassonde Entrepreneurial Center, University of Utah | CannonDesign
- 1871 Chicago
STEM and STEAM
- Future Fluent: The Coming Renaissance in American Education | Mouse
- New York’s Statewide Strategic Plan for Science and P-12 Science Learning Standards | New York State
- New York State STEM Education Collaborative
"If we are going to encourage creativity and innovation in education, we will need more white water rafting guides…than cruise ship captains." @dculberhouse
Design Thinking Resources
- The d.school at Stanford
- Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators | IDEO
- DT for Educators Toolkit Download | IDEO
- The Design Thinking Process (Graphic)| The Nueva School
- The Design Thinking Process (Graphic) | Stanford d.school
- IDEO Shopping Cart Redesign | ABC Nightline
- Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems | Trung Le
- Wired by Design | Wired Magazine
- Why Students Need to Think Like Designers | Remake Learning
- Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in Our Youth | Getting Smart
- Sparktruck's Surprise Lesson: Using Design Skills to Build Kids' Character | Wire
- Student Teams in Search of Design Thinking | Goldman et al.
- Learning from What Doesn't Work: The Power of Embracing a Prototyping Mindset | Carroll
- Destination, Imagination, and the Fires Within: Design Thinking in a Middle School Classroom | Carroll et al.
- Design Kit | Ideo
- Empathy | Ideo
- Make It | Ideo
- Design Thinking in Schools | a directory of schools using design thinking
Innovations come from the margins; how will unstoppable force of innovations merge w/immovable force of schools? @raphaela235 #dml2012
Examples of Manifestos
- An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth | Bruce Mau Design
- Hip Hop Ed Manifesto
- The Expert Enough Manifesto
- Glenbrook South High School (Glenview, IL) STEM Manifesto
- 10X Thinking 10X Leadership Manifesto | Jakes
Innovation is a constant pattern of invention, reinvention, then reinvent the reinvention. #Workspring
Innovation
- Innovation in the Classroom: Design Thinking for 21st Century Learning | Kwek
- Four Ways to Spread Ideas | Stanford Social Innovation Review
- The Random Events that Sparked 8 of the World's Biggest Startups | Fast Company
- 5 Ways to Innovate by Cross-Pollinating Ideas | Fast Company
- No Instructions, No Right Answers: A 263- Piece Building Kit for Curious Kids | Fast Company
- Why isn't Innovation Taught in Schools? | Forbes
- Three Ways to Distinguish an Edge from a Fringe | Hagel and Brown
- How to Bring the Core to the Edge | Hagel and Brown
Additional
- Review of Halverson and Collins, Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America | Dede
- Science Leadership Academy Website
- Chris Lehmann's Presentations | Slideshare