Dropping the bomb on STEM education in South Carolina.

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CTE’s Time is NowSouth Carolina Education and Business SummitGreenville, S.C., June 21, 2015

JIM BRAZELLCEO, Armour.iojim@armour.io

WHAT IS STEM?

• STEM Public Policy Origin and Path

• Abraham Lincoln

• John F. Kennedy

• Barack Obama

When our predecessors stood at the edge of the world and gazed up at Sputnik in 1957, they did not respond with a narrow focus on technology education or training.

General Robert F. McDermott, Academic Dean, of the U.S. Air Force Academy, founded the new academy on the idea that in a world of increasing technological complexity, education needs to increase emphasis in both classical and contemporary studies.

Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott

Health Arts

CTEAcademics

LeadershipCharacterCitizenship

Classical Contemporary Education

The Fundamental Question of 21st

Century education is:

How do we cultivate innovation and

innovators in our schools?

Dr. Francis X. Kane Military Father of GPS (Col. USAF, 1918-2013)

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/11/230841224/lessons-in-leadership-its-not-about-you-its-about-them

When we face a challenge where people have to change, leadership’s role is to engage the people with the problem to solve it for themselves—rather

than prescribing a solution from the top down.

Adaptive Leadership Ronald Heifetz Harvard University

http://hbr.org/product/the-theory-behind-the-practice-a-brief-introductio/an/3241BC-PDF-ENG

Successful adaptive changes build on the

past rather than jettison it.

Organizational adaptation occurs

through experimentation.

Adaptation relies on diversity.

How do we cultivate innovation and innovators in our schools?

Indigenous Invention - “We must move beyond school reform through the implementation of outside ideas to a new approach, one that embraces inside innovation, imagination, and invention…”

Source: School Reform: The Flatworm in a Flat World: From Entropy to Renewal through Indigenous Invention, PAUL E. HECKMAN, University of California, Davis and VIKI L. MONTERA, Sonoma State University.

We are here

TEAMSSTEM

21st Century Economic Shift

TEAMS Organization of people and technology across

institutions and disciplines to innovate.

EducationEconomic

Development

IndustryWorkforce

Community Innovation Laboratories

From Brazell in Network World: Cyber Bullying,

Citizenship, and Learning, South Carolina CTE, June

30, 2011.

Health Arts

AcademicsCTE

TEAMS BalanceCulture, Norms &

Behaviors

How do we create a positive environment for learning?

Rules, Policies, Support, Counseling, & Enforcement

Brazell in South Carolina CTE, Network World: Cyber Bullying, Citizenship, and Learning, June 30, 2011

SURVIVAL

GOVERNANCESECURITY &

SAFETY

QUALITYOF LIFE

WEALTHJOBS

STEM is transformation of social, human, and

environmental systems by human creativity & design

and the unintended consequences of our

actions.

What is the technology shift changing the economy and education landscape?

What is the historic and contemporary context motivation for change in schools?

What conclusions can we draw from the STEM labor market about CTE education?

How should CTE leaders respond?

The Commission reported:

1. There was a widespread interest in the subject of industrial education.

2. The lack of skilled workmen was not chiefly a want of manual dexterity but a want of what what may be called industrial intelligence.

3. There was a growing feeling of inadequacy of the existing public school system to fully meet the needs of modern industrial and social conditions. The schools were too exclusively literary in their spirit, scope, and methods.

4. To the question of who should bear the expense of technical education, the common answer was the state.

On June 7, 1905, Massachusetts Governor William Douglas appointed a Commission on Industrial and Technical Education that later became known as the Douglas Commission. The Commission reported:

1. There was a widespread interest in the subject of industrial education.

2. The lack of skilled workmen was not chiefly a want of manual dexterity but a want of what what may be called industrial intelligence.

3. There was a growing feeling of inadequacy of the existing public school system to fully meet the needs of modern industrial and social conditions. The schools were too exclusively literary in their spirit, scope, and methods.

4. To the question of who should bear the expense of technical education, the common answer was the state.

(Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976)

Morrill Act, July 2, 1862

PracticalArts

LiberalArts

STEM Motivates

“...promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes.” (Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976)

Hail the skillful cunning hand!

Hail to the cultural mind!

Contending for the world’s command,Here let them be combined.

(Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976)

St. Louis Manual Training School, 1880

Steam-driven threshing machine near Hallock, Minnesota. Photo from 1882, scanned from H. Arnold Barton, A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840—1940, Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1994. Held by Nordiska Museet, Stockholm. Public domain by reason of age in Wikipedia.

1812 Industrial AgeInput to production – machine labor (STEM driven change)Agrarian Age

Input to production – human labor

19th Century Economic Shift

1973Information AgeInput to production – human knowledge via computers (STEM driven change)Industrial Age

Input to production – machine labor

20th Century Economic Shift

We are hereNew Economic Age (STEM driven change)

Information AgeInput to production – human knowledge

21st Century Economic Shift

STEM JOBS

Audience Survey

What percentage of jobs in the U.S. in 2014 are

classified as STEM jobs by the BLS, U.S. Department of Commerce?

STEM JOBS

60% or more

STEM JOBS

59%-25%

STEM JOBS

25%-6%

STEM JOBS

Less than 7%

6% STEM JOBS

6% of U.S. Workforce,8.2M STEM Jobs in

2014, http://www.bls.gov/oes/2013/may/stem_groups.htm, 8.2 million jobs and David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, “STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future.” US Department of

Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf

½ of STEM Jobs are Network and

Information Tech

2014, http://www.bls.gov/oes/2013/may/stem_groups.htm, 8.2 million jobs and David Langdon, George McKittrick, David Beede, Beethika Khan, and Mark Doms, “STEM: Good Jobs Now and for the Future.” US Department of

Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration last accessed online October 28, 2012 http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/stemfinalyjuly14_1.pdf

6% STEM JOBS

Is there a labor market shortage of STEM workers?

There are too many college educated, experienced STEM workers who are

trying to find a job; there is not a shortage of them (Economic Policy

Institute). However, current STEM job categorization does not typically

include health and medical jobs or the majority of middle and high skill jobs.

The STEM Crisis Is a MythBy Robert N. CharettePosted 30 Aug 2013

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

STEM attrition goes 10 yrs into the workforce, as 46% of #workers with a Bachelor’s degree in STEM have left the field.

—Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/10-stem-economy-rothwell

Caveat Emptor

The true secret behind the curtain

ANTHONY P. CARNEVALE NICOLE SMITH MICHELLE MELTON, “Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics”, Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce, October 20, 2012 last

accessed October 28, 2012 at http://cew.georgetown.edu/stem/.

Forecast of STEM Occupational GrowthGeorgetown University, Center for Education and the Workforce

Job Shortages: We face a chronic shortage in STEM competencies as the

demand for STEM talents grows outside traditional STEM jobs.

The Hidden STEM Economy, Brookings Institute, 6.10.2013 http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/10-stem-economy-rothwell

CTE - Five Ways That Pay, Center for Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, Sep 2012, Last accessed online October 28, 2012 at http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/CTE.FiveWays.FullReport.pdf

There are 29 million middle

skills jobs.

62% of middle skills job pay

$35K plus

There are 29 million middle skill jobs.

Many of these jobs are wrongly classified as middle skill jobs because they only require a two year degree or or certificate (Bettersworth, TSTC.edu).

STEM Workforce Data - Caveat Emptor

http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/file/middle-skill-fact-sheets-2014/NSC-South-Carolina-MiddleSkillFS-2014.pdf

Dennis Vilorio, Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2014, http://www.stemedcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/BLS-STEM-Jobs-report-spring-2014.pdf

“The future of the economy is in STEM,” says James Brown, the executive director of the STEM Education Coalition in Washington, D.C. “That’s where the jobs of tomorrow will be.”

There is no universally agreed-upon definition of STEM….

If the BLS can not agree on a workforce definition of

STEM, it can not be measured and STEM education and

workforce funding is lost to politics.

STEM 2.0: Transformational Thinking About STEM for

Education and Career Practitioners

by Jim Brodie Brazell

If you would like a copy STEM 2.0 or if you would like a copy

of my monthly newsletter, please email me at

jim@armour.io

In my opinion, the STEM Ed Coalition, is one of the most harmful lobbies in the United States to preparing our youth educationally to face their future—rather than

our past. This organization has consistently taken over the space in public policy and funding advocacy occupied by CTE over the past 100 years—essentially replacing

advocacy for workforce education with a path to 4 year colleges only.

Millennial Flip Flop of Political Education Poles

(1) There is no standard workforce or education definition of STEM in the U.S.

(2) Today, labor market shortages are for STEM-based skills across many jobs not typically classified as STEM.

(3) A new approach to analysis is needed to identify how social institutions such as employment are changing as well as what skills give rise to economic innovation and sustainability of democratic ideals.

The Fundamental Question of the 21st

Century is:

How do we cultivate innovation and

innovators in our schools?

Dr. Francis X. Kane Military Father of GPS (Col. USAF, 1918-

Increasing student, teacher, and worker performance can be

achieved by reconciling what we perceive to be

opposites:

Academics and the applied arts--Engineering,

Fine Arts, Performance Art, Computer Science,

and Career and Technical Education…

Reconciling Opposites Two Sides of the Same Coin

KnowledgeAcademics

Liberal Arts/White Collar Jobs

Practical Arts/Blue Collar Jobs

SkillCareer & Technical

Education, Arts, Engineering, and

Computer Science

Common Core State Standards & Career and Technical Education: Bridging the Divide between College and Career Readiness was prepared for Achieve by Hans Meeder and Thom Suddreth of the Meeder Consulting Group, with the Association for Career and Technical Education and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.

“...all too often, the focus on “college readiness” and “career readiness” remains in two distinct silos...”

“Those who complete both a strong academic curriculum and a

vocational program of study (dual concentrators) may have better

outcomes than those who pursue one or the other”

Source: Silverberg, Warner, Fong, & Goodwin, 2004; Plank, 2001; Stone & Aliaga, 2003)” (National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition, 2005, Career Preparatory

Experiences, ¶ 3).

Tell me, and I forgetShow me, and I remember Let me do, and I understand

—After Confucius, China, 5th century BC

http://www.saysi.orghttp://www.saysi.org

SAY Sí is a year round, long-term, non-profit multidisciplinary arts

program that provides students opportunities to

develop artistic and social skills in preparation for

higher educational advancement and

professional careers. SAY Sí strives to develop each

individual student by enhancing their character so that they will possess all the

tools and motivation necessary to become productive, thoughtful

citizens of our community.

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1,000 MPG eq. Fuel Cell Car

Health Arts

CTEAcademics

LeadershipCharacterCitizenship

Morrill Act, July 2, 1862

PracticalArts

LiberalArts

STEM Motivates

“...promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes.” (Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976)

Educational Change

Today schools are working to mainstream engineering, arts,

and computer science processes within the academic context—

integration of practical and applied arts.

Model classical contemporary schools that integrate academic and applied arts with success in terms of improving learning outcomes for students include:

1. Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School (K-8), ppacs.net, PA.

2. Clark Magnet School, clarkmagnet.net, La Crescenta, CA.

3. Indian River State College, irsc.edu, Fort Pierce, FL.

4. University of Maryland Baltimore County, umbc.edu, Baltimore, MD.

5. Olin College, olin.edu, Needham, MA.

Classical Contemporary Education - Systems Innovation

a. ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP - Adaptive leadership is specifically about change that enables the capacity to thrive—change led from the bottom up and the top down simultaneously.

b. INNOVATION LABORATORIES – Positioning challenges and opportunities from the community (local and/or global) in the center of learning and education goals through student- and teacher-driven innovation projects.

c. CULTURE OF INNOVATION - Context and frame for learning is real world and purpose driven incorporating failure as feedback to the learning process. A culture of innovation is conducive to learning, improving, and adapting while fostering risk taking. In this view, learning cannot be achieved without feedback as an integral part of the learning loop.

d. PRE-K TO PhD NETWORKS, SYSTEMS, & PATHWAYS - Sequenced, integrated and transferable courses across K-12, Community College, University and the Adult Continuing Education spectrum of lifelong learning.

Classical Contemporary Education - Pedagogical Innovation

INTEGRATED ACADEMIC & APPLIED PRACTICE -

STEM is used as a bridge to connect academic, arts, CTE, and health education;

Delivering integrated programs of study across disciplines (coherent course sequences);

Integrating fine arts, performing arts, cultural arts, commercial arts, and creativity as foundational to school culture and outcomes (not an add on);

Applying knowledge and skill-based learning through apprenticeship, expert modeling, and project work;

Integrating disciplinary knowledge across subjects through innovation themes, projects, and competitions; and,

Integrating professional development within and across faculty professional development subjects/disciplines.

The Fundamental Question of the 21st

Century is:

What are we going to do to change the

world today?

Dr. Francis X. Kane Military Father of GPS (Col. USAF, 1918-

Health Arts

CTEAcademics

SURVIVAL

SAFETY

QUALITYOF LIFE

WEALTHJOBS

STEM is transformation of social, human, and environmental systems by human creativity & design and the unintended

consequences of our actions.

EducationEconomic

Development

IndustryWorkforce

CTE’s Time is NowSouth Carolina Education and Business SummitGreenville, S.C., June 21, 2015

JIM BRAZELLCEO, Armour.iojim@armour.io

Extra Slides

WHAT IS STEM?

A conversation with Rene Bonck, Aamco, Inc., Transmission Tech, Orlando, Florida, June 19, 2009.

QUESTION: What is the art of transmission repair?

"....part changer vs. someone who understands and overlooks every part and design of the system.

Building... Creating the better system... That's actually what we do. We take a system from a manufacturer

and those who know what they are doing actually build a new system using what we know works from the

“We are inventors when we have to be. Some times we redesign a component or a couple of components and interfaces, sometimes we build a whole new systems

within a system...

“Art and science are the same thing.

“…look at new cars, art and science are one because of drive by wire--there is no more mechanical

controls… The steering is driven by wire… by the same thing as a video game joy stick. The new cars are

robots. They are remote control.”

WHAT IS STEM?

A conversation with Rene Bonck, Aamco, Inc., Transmission Tech, Orlando, Florida, June 19, 2009.

QUESTION: Define Tech, Engineer and Scientist:

Tech -"repairs and fixes"

Engineer -"designer”

Scientist - "test each component and find new materials"

QUESTION: Which one are you?

"I am all 3. Fix it. Better way to make it last. We find or build new parts that are stronger than the parts

manufactured. We engineer and design parts and a system is stronger. Science is finding out what its

capabilities are... It's like a circle. The art and science is the learning. The feedback. The governor.”

Rene operates in the world with a transdisciplinary perspective--Renee is a craftsman, an artist, a

scientist, a philosopher, and an artist.

WHAT IS STEM?

SURVIVAL

SAFETY

QUALITYOF LIFE

WEALTHJOBS

actions.

We are here

21st Century Economic Shift STEM is facilitating

transformation of:

KnowledgeOrganizations

IndustriesMarkets

Technical SystemsHuman Capital

CurriculaSocial Institutions

Human Identity

We are here

Information Age

Social InstitutionsEducation

STEM is facilitating transformation of:

WorkEducation

FamilyLaw

HealthGovernance

WarPolitical Movements

Civil SocietyEconomy

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Simulation-Based Triage Training, Games for Health: Mass Casualty Care Panel , RTI International

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We need to think beyond these.

We are here

Social InstitutionsWork

WorkEducation

FamilyLaw

HealthGovernance

Information Age

http://ae45ipb.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/masa-depan-pertanian-ada-di-tangan-robotikabisakah/

WHAT IS STEM?

3D Printers That Build Entire Houses: Contour Craftings Aims To Print 2,500 Square-Foot-Homes In 20 Hours, International Business TimesBy Ryan W. Nealon October 29 2013 10:08 AM

http://www.ibtimes.com/3d-printers-build-entire-houses-contour-craftings-aims-print-2500-square-foot-homes-20-hours-video

The Contour Crafting 3D printers could even do the electrical work, plumbing, tiling, finishing work and painting.

Brian Handwerkfor National Geographic, PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2, 2013

We all know drones can deliver death on the battlefield, but might they also soon be delivering presents to your door? Amazon.com is counting on it, thanks to the online retail giant's no-longer-secret "Octocopter" package delivery project.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131202-drone-uav-uas-amazon-octocopter-bezos-science-aircraft-unmanned-robot/

We are here

Social InstitutionsWar

WorkEducation

FamilyLaw

HealthGovernance

Information Age

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We are here

World ViewSTEM is facilitating

transformation of:

TimePlace

GeographyIdentity

SubjectivityValuesBeliefsCulturePrivacy

Information Age

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http://www.tek-lado.com/wp-content/uploads/Necomimi-on-Sale-600x393.jpg

http://neurogadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Necomimi-successor-Shippo-brain-controlled-tail-Neurowear-e1348342289528.jpg

Shippo brain-controlled tail Neurowear

SURVIVAL

SAFETY

QUALITYOF LIFE

WEALTHJOBS

actions.

http://news.yahoo.com/human-cyborg-mcdonald-employees-assaulted-wearing-gear-210139320.html

Gerardo Caballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Jan Zalasiewizc, The Guardian, Sunday 21 June 2015

We are hereNew Economic Age (STEM driven change)

What is the key technology shift driving economic change?

Age of Robotics

Input to production – artificial labor

and artificial intelligence

Information AgeInput to production

– human knowledge via computers

Birth of a New Economic Age

Why is everyone in U.S. and world focused on robotics education?

WhiteCollarJobs

Blue Collar Jobs

Today’s Jobs

D-J Engineering, Butler Community CollegeApril 7 to 11, 2008

Specialized Knowledge &

Skills

Systems Knowledge &

Skills

Workforce Ed & CTE Shift

(1) Automation (robotics) is having a significant impact on the labor market by transforming the input to the economy (input - artificial labor and artificial intelligence).

(2) The net effect of the adoption and diffusion of technology is the transformation of social institutions—including family, work, school, law, the economy, and national defense.

(3) The changes in work, the economy and other social institutions is so profound that it is difficult—if not impossible— to understand these changes using traditional measures.

From Brazell in Network World: Cyber Bullying,

Citizenship, and Learning, South Carolina CTE, June

30, 2011.

For Dr. Francis X. “Duke” Kane

liberal education and the arts are

part and parcel to STEM education and the cultivation

of the “creativeforce” we need for the missions ahead. For Duke, “creativity

and collaboration” were the two necessary qualities to engender in

the education of what he affectionately called the “Speed of

Light Generation.”

http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/1stLL.pdf

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning.

Blooms Taxonomy

Ethical, Cultural, Social Issues Related to Technology = Social Studies, English, Arts, STEM & CTE.

Blooms Taxonomy

ConceiveDesignImplementOperate

Self Efficacy

How can we get students to perform at higher orders of

intellect if schools and faculty are not prepared for these higher order tasks as it relates to the curricula on

a day-to-day, subject-to-subject basis?

Connect theory to

application

CTE Arts, A/V Tech and Communications and IT Clusters

Cultural & Classical Arts

Act 1a. – First integration movement

Real W

Denton ISD Current and Emerging Pattern Languages

Act 1b. – The way ahead from students.

Student lead and defined mission.

Act 2. – Rearticulation of the whole. Arts-CTE integration in Act 1 should impact a few academic

teachers and programs because of the natural relationship among arts and academics. Use the first

success to define a next movement which incorporates

all three stakeholders ARTS-ACADEMCIS-CTE.

Academic disciplines

Innovation Strategy Platform for Transdisciplinary Programs of Study

Digital Media & Art

Digital Cinema & Photography

Digital Audio & Music

Digital Literacy & Storytelling

Digital Entrepreneurship & Marketing

Innovation Strategy Transdisciplinary Program of Study

Digital Media & Art

English

Digital Media & Art

Digital

Digital Media & Art

Innovation Strategy Transdisciplinary Program of Study – Virtually an infinite number of combinations of humanities, arts and other CTE programs with

Digital

SCC Vision

Digital Media & Art

Connection defined by student

SCC Vision

Digital Media & Art

Thesis/Portfolio Assessed Entry

Juried Exit – Performance,

exhibition and/or capstone project.

Thesis/portfolio development “connecting the dots” through intensives, online and normally scheduled activities.

Connecting the dots

Connect to 1 or more academic, art or other CTE courses

Connect to 2 or more academic, art or other CTE courses

Entry Exit

Extra slides…

http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/resources/publications/file/middle-skill-fact-sheets-2014/NSC-South-Carolina-MiddleSkillFS-2014.pdf

What is the technology shift

changing the economy?

Maryland

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/international/index.cfm?i=41342

Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce Today, April 2008

ANTHONY P. CARNEVALE NICOLE SMITH MICHELLE MELTON, “Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics”, Georgetown University, Center on Education and the Workforce, October 20, 2012 last accessed October 28, 2012 at http://cew.georgetown.edu/stem/.

Forecast of STEM Occupational GrowthGeorgetown University, Center for Education and the Workforce

Total jobs: STEM occupations will grow from 6.8 million to 8 million total jobs by

Job openings: STEM occupations will provide 2.4 million job openings through 2018, including 1.1 net new jobs and 1.3

replacement jobs due to retirement.

What are they advocating?

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