Quick Ideas from the first meeting of 2008-2009

Integrated STEM through Design Thinking

Importance of Design and Technological Learning Opportunities

• coordination of curriculum
• articulated instruction
• programming that integrates lessons from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics so that lessons are deliberately aligned around a common purpose.

Learning Cycle – IMAST

• Explore (no or no direction)
• Getting the Idea (direct instruction)
• Applying the Idea
• Expanding the Idea

MYP - Middle Years Program is driving some good things at some member districts. 

From the International Bacc. Website

This course is essentially concerned with solving problems in an effort to stimulate students’ ingenuity and to encourage them to combine intellectual talents and practical skills.

Schools are granted flexibility in the choice of technology subjects, but each course provides a balance between three key areas:

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  • systems
  • information
  • materials.

In particular, students are encouraged to display ingenuity and creativity in devising practical solutions to given tasks. Students use the design cycle to:

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  • investigate
  • design
• • plan
  • create
  • evaluate.

Newspaper Geodesic Domes

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