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"Learners communicate and justify their proposed explanations. Using a framework known as argue-to-learn, students present, explain and justify their artifacts, claims, and analysis to their teacher and peers."

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Self-regulated learning refers to our ability to understand and control the learning environment through using goals, applying positive affect, implementing strategies, and using monitoring and reflection.

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Vee Diagram is a research based scaffold for inquiry based instruction. It identifies elements of scientific knowledge as they are used in a scientific investigation. An example of a Vee Diagram is placed below.

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Cyber-learning helps us take advantage of new technology. Teachers need to become aware, learn how to use them, and become comfortable with them in the classroom and at home.

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Student assessing - when students are asked to assess their own learning, they expanded gains, had better communication skills, better media usage, and deeper application in the real-word.

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S: Science
T: Technology
E: Engineering
M: Math

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STEM seems to focus on real-world problems. These problems can be social, economic, and environmental problems. STEM will help students identify real-world problems to find a solution.

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STEM activities don't always have one right answer, and that's it. It allows for many right answers, and it accepts failures. Failure means that that students are trying, and they will eventually reach a solution.

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STEM lessons should be centered around hands-on activities, as well as open-ended activities. The teacher may control the tools or materials they work with, but the results are student-centered. Students should control their own ideas and investigations.

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These sites can help jumpstart our thinking with STEM lessons:
1. Design Squad Nation
2. NASA STEM lesson
3. National Geographic Education
4. STEMWorks
5. TeachEngineering
6. The Air Force Collaboratory

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Current data reveals that the highest paying jobs in the future will be centered around their employees mastering science and math which is connected to STEM. STEM is also connected to college success, economic growth, national security, and competitiveness in the global market.

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"STEM education involves viewing separate disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as one unit, thus teaching the integrated disciplines as one cohesive entity." The article gives the example that an engineer needs a developed understanding of science, math, and technology to do their designs and applications. It goes hand in hand.

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Out of 5,000 people, 86% said they did not understand the reference to STEM or they confused it with STEM cells, flowers, and broccoli stems. A main concern of STEM is that there is a communication gap between policy makers, universities, K-12 school districts, and the general public (parents).

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There seems to be no common operational definition or conceptualization of STEM, so at times it makes it hard to implement. The way STEM is taught is often much different than the way STEM is done. It seems like the programs do not give enough time to relate STEM to the other disciplines within it. They are also having trouble with  not showing how STEM it relates to the real world.

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The federal government made STEM a top priority in funding.