STEM/STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts
Here you'll find articles and resources for STEM+Arts education, also known as STEAM. Topics include science, technology, engineering, math and arts education and range from research reports to feature articles to profiles of makerspaces to news about new STEAM and STEAM initiatives in schools.
As these teachers have come to understand, you don't have to be technically minded to introduce your students to the important concepts behind artificial intelligence.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/12/19
Institute of Play, a nonprofit in New York City that pioneered and promoted the use of gaming principles for learning, has decided to shutter operations, effective by the end of summer. The organization said it would hand over its learning assets to the Connected Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/06/19
A new guide has provided insight for school administrators who are struggling to implement equitable K-12 computer science education.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/04/19
A new analysis by the Education Commission of the States has identified those states where students do and don't play musical instruments outside of school.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/03/19
A small South Carolina school district is making a large investment in STEM education. The three-school Florence School District Four opened a STEM "innovation lab" in its elementary school for the 2018-2019 school year and introduced drone pilot certification lessons to high schoolers. Now it plans to open a second STEM lab in its middle school in time for the start of classes next fall.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/30/19
A company that produces virtual laboratory simulations for education has struck a deal with the Danish Ministry of Education to provide its schools with access to its programs. Beginning this month, students in lower secondary (grades 8-10) and upper secondary grades will have access to STEM-focused simulations from Labster, which has its headquarters in Denmark.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/30/19
The initiative intended to enhance the community's digital literacy for workforce competitiveness, beginning in K-12.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/28/19
More work needs to be done by states to emphasize required instructional time for science in early grades, establish a course sequence for science topics in middle school and match graduation requirements with state-defined science learning for high school.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/22/19
A million-dollar technology project is helping students at one Michigan school gain job skills in robotics.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/21/19
American girls' scores were higher than boys' scores in the latest national technology and engineering literacy exam, an assessment that asks eighth graders to solve real-world technology and engineering problems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/20/19