https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b Made with whimsy en-us 2017-09-11 19:45:22 UTC 2025-10-29 01:04:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png bubbles201252 https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186551663 STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications.]]> 2017-09-11 19:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186551663 bubbles201252 https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186569373 College graduates overall make 84% more over a lifetime that those with only high school diplomas.

STEM fields can expect to earn 26% more money on average and be less likely to experience job loss.


]]> 2017-09-11 20:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186569373 bubbles201252 https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186743177 The presigious World Economic Forum ranks the U.S as number 48 in quality of math and science education.

25 years ago the U.S. led the world in high school and college graduation rates. Today, the U.S. has dropped to 20th and 16th. We can do better.]]> 2017-09-12 12:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186743177 bubbles201252 https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186745219 China is now the second-largest producer of scientific papers, after the U.S with nearly 11 percent of the world's total.

Russia is building an "innovation City"

Saudi Arabia has a new science university.

Singapore is working on a Medical Science Hub. 

These nations and many other have rightly concluded that the way to win in the world economy is be doing a better job of educating and innovating]]> 2017-09-12 12:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186745219 bubbles201252 https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186748462 This is an umbrella term for independent inventors, designers, and tinkerers

A maker is anyone who makes things. It does always have to be tech inventions. You can crochet, make jewelry, be a homemaker. 

[this movement] "it has the potential of giving anyone the tools they need to become makers and move them from passive users to active creators" ~Kaplan]]> 2017-09-12 13:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bubbles201252/p7g0apvsgj5b/wish/186748462