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Title: Instructional Strategies Promoting STEM and Technological Literacy


1
Instructional Strategies Promoting STEM and
Technological Literacy
  • Maurice Frazier, Ph.D.
  • Oscar Smith High School
  • Chesapeake, Virginia

2
Have you Ever had a Conversation Start like this
  • Person 1 So what do you teach?
  • Person 2 Technology Education
  • Person 1 Hmmm what is that?
  • Computers? Shop?
  • Can the average secondary technology
  • education teacher sufficiently explain
  • what they teach and why?

3
The Nature of Secondary Technology Education
  • Support the Core Subjects
  • Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and
    English/Language Arts
  • Promote technological literacy and reinforce STEM
    curriculum.

4
It is Important to Know the Difference
  • Technology Education versus Educational
    Technology
  • Technology education teachers, core subject
    teachers, and administrators need to understand
    the difference.
  • Technology education is intended to foster
    technological literacy and educational technology
    supports the implementation of technology
    education.

5
The Importance of STEM and Technological Literacy
  • Why is it important for us as educators to
    integrate the core subjects into technology
    education courses?
  • Research tells us it can be helpful in boosting
    students performance on standards assessments.
  • Students can relate the material to Real World
    applications
  • National technological literacy assessments are
    on the horizon.

6
A Study Worth Noting
  • Technology education completers (courses taken in
    sequence) scored significantly higher on their
    standardized assessments in three out of four
    core subjects than non-completers.

7
Study Results
  • Mathematics
  • Completers- 466.9 Non-Completers- 441.7 (25
    points higher)
  • Social Studies
  • Completers- 502 Non-Completers- 463.8 (38 points
    higher)

8
Study Results (cont.)
  • English/Language Arts
  • Completers- 474.7 Non-Completers- 464.6 (10
    points higher)
  • Science
  • Completers- 459.7 Non-Completers- 430.8 (29
    points higher)

9
Curriculum Integration Ideas and Suggestions
  • It is important to actively integrate material
    from the core subjects as much as possible.
  • Collaborating and sharing ideas with other
    instructors that teach similar subjects is one of
    the best ways to start.

10
Integrating English/Language Arts
  • Speed Writing
  • One to two minute daily writing sessions where
    students write about what they know and what they
    have learned about a new topic.
  • Current communication devices and modes of
    communicating
  • Impacts that communication devices are having on
    our daily lives

11
Integrating English/Language Arts (cont.)
  • Active Notes and Paraphrasing
  • Students take notes and then work with a partner
    to paraphrase and dictate examples of what they
    have learned by adding their thoughts to their
    partners notes.
  • Students then read what their partner has written
    to the rest of the class.

12
Integrating English/Language Arts (cont.)
  • Word Discovery
  • Students must look up a word that relates to the
    current material that they are not familiar with.
    The student must record the definition, cite
    examples of how to use it properly, and teach a
    three minute lesson to another student about how
    it relates to what they are learning.

13
Integrating Mathematics
  • Measurement Scavenger Hunt
  • Students walk around school and outside to find
    and measure objects that are in a given range of
    measurements that have been designated by the
    instructor.
  • With that activity students integrate estimation,
    decimals, fractions, and ratios.

14
Integrating Mathematics (cont.)
  • Real World Word Problems
  • Students develop a word problem for one of their
    class mates to solve based on the material that
    they are learning.
  • The student must explain how that math that they
    used to solve the problem could also be applied
    in a job or career that relates to that subject
    they are studying.

15
Integrating Science
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Students can use various forms of science to
    study the global impacts of technology on the
    natural environment.
  • Impacts on the atmosphere and natural resources
    (Earth Science)
  • Agricultural technology, pesticides, and
    fertilizers (Chemistry)

16
Integrating Social Studies
  • Social Impacts of New Technology
  • Students can explore the various ways that new
    technology has changed local and global social
    interactions over time.
  • New communication technology
  • New construction and
  • production methods
  • New digital imaging and
  • video technology

17
Integrating Social Studies (cont.)
  • Understanding Ethics and Responsibility
  • Students explore ethical awareness and how it
    might have an impact on other people and the
    world around them.
  • Ethics and the medical field
  • Ethics and environmental practices
  • Ethics and public privacy

18
How do we Know we are on the Right track?
  • How do technology education teachers know that
    they are supporting core standards?
  • Is there a way for technology education teachers
    to know that they are supporting a STEM
    curriculum and promoting technological literacy?

19
Suggestions for Articulating Curriculum and
Standards
  • Technology education and core subject teachers
    need to collaborate. Neither group seems to know
    exactly what the other group is teaching.
  • Align instruction
  • Develop activities
  • Reinforce standards

20
Suggestions for Articulating Curriculum and
Standards (cont.)
  • Workshops to stay abreast of current trends
    relating to technological literacy and
    educational strategies.
  • New Technological Literacy Standards (NAEP
    Testing)
  • Trends in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
    standards
  • New instructional strategies and delivery methods

21
Discussion, Questions, and Idea Sharing
  • What are some of the ways that you are
    integrating core subjects into your technology
    education curriculum?
  • What are some ways that we can change the
    perception of technology education?
  • Are technological literacy standards a good idea?

22
Final Comments and Remarks
Thank you for you time and attention.
Maurice Frazier Oscar Smith High
School Chesapeake, Virginia Mfraz004_at_odu.edu
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