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=Governor's **STEM Advisory Council: Technology-Enhanced Instruction Working Group**=

Governor Branstad's [|EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER SEVENTY-FOUR] declared that science, technology, engineering and mathematics education should be strengthened as part of providing a world-class education, encouraging innovation and enhancing economic development to focus and promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in Iowa.

[|Iowa STEM Education Roadmap]

[|Science "Next Generation" standards:] https://docs.google.com/a/spirit-lake.k12.ia.us/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6BS0zTyeir8YWNiMjU4YjUtYmE0NC00MTRjLWJkMGUtOTg1N2ZmMGMwYmQw&hl=en_US

[|IOWA STEM "Heat Map"]
This document identifies existing STEM education projects/program. An important "take-away" is that there is a plethora of activity going on across the State. The question is how are these initiatives shared, connected, coordinated and evaluated? The next step is to evaluate success, connect to business and advance manufacturing, and tell the story. We need to leverage and promote what we have in place. Thanks to Jeff Weld and his UNI Team for the creation of this map.

[|Transforming American Education: LEARNING Powered by Technology]

This video gives you a "snap shot" of Van Meter Schools and some of our thinking. [|Van Meter Schools] Thinking from Sir Ken [|Changing Education Paradigms] and his "TED" talk [|Do schools kill creativity?] (//His book, "The Element" is a good read too.//) The U.S. Army is committed to systemically changing training (LEARNING) for soldiers by 2015 [|The U.S. Army Learning Concept for 2015] What is "blended learning?" [|The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning] Great site for updates [|Iowa Math and Science Education Partnership] Interesting thinking in reference to class size in teaching science. [|Class Size and Student Learning]

This article by Jeff Borden addresses personalized learning through the use of technology and online learning. Personalised learning cultures

NM- Another good resource are the Reflection Papers from the [| Future of STEM Curricula and Instructional Design: A Blue Sky Workshop]

NM- Tool/Resource Iowa already has in place, but needs additional support. P otential of our statewide repository (Equella). [|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrFmvkCXpDs__]

NM- The STEM Exchange is being built by NSDL, in collaboration with a range of STEM education partners, as a web service to capture and share social media-generated information and other networked associations about educational resources. http://nsdlnetwork.org/stemexchange

A few great TED videos: Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

JCC Thanks to Jeff Weld and his UNI Team for the creation of [|IOWA STEM "Heat Map"] This document identifies existing STEM education projects/program. An important "take-away" is that there is a plethora of activity going on across the State. The question is how are these initiatives shared, connected, coordinated and evaluated? The next step is to evaluate success, connect to business and advance manufacturing, and tell the story. We need to leverage and promote what we have in place.

JMH-UNI: Outline of Mission and Vision statements with supporting resources. [|CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GOOGLE DOC]

Must watch! [|Iowa, Did you know?]

To move forward we are using this template [|Managing Complex Change] to organize our thought.