Workshop on the Substance of STEM Education: Addressing the Gap Between Foundational, Meta, and Humanistic Knowledge

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源（IUSE：EHR）的支持下，该项目旨在通过制定STEM教育的愿景，为学生应对新兴的技术和社会挑战做好准备，从而为国家利益服务。该项目将召集讨论，探讨STEM教育的当前和未来背景。 在这些讨论的基础上，该项目将设想未来STEM教育的模式。该项目将从整合基础知识（了解），元知识（行动）和人文知识（价值）的角度考虑STEM教育。 研究人员预计，这种观点将比以知识为中心的教育更好地使STEM教育与技术和社会挑战保持一致。该项目侧重于当前STEM教育模式中的两个差距。首先是学生学习STEM概念的需要与培养道德决策和行动所需的创造力、批判性思维和解决问题的技能之间的差距。第二个差距的出现是因为STEM课程和学位课程继续停留在传统的STEM学科界限内，即使我们最紧迫的问题需要跨学科的工作。该项目的目标是共同建立STEM教育未来的愿景，并开发一个描述这一未来的清晰框架。 该项目将建立一个虚拟实践社区，该社区将亲自会面，以阐明STEM教育未来的框架，并有可能实现项目愿景。研讨会前活动将包括一系列基于互联网的公开讨论，邀请专家作主旨发言。讨论的目标包括：（1）建立一个实践社区;（2）使参与者熟悉研讨会的动机，背景和关键概念;（3）设想并集中在课程类型，学习者角色和研讨会议程上。研讨会参与者将根据他们在该领域的专业知识、知识、参与度和领导力从该实践社区中选出。在为期两天的工作室形式的研讨会上，大约50名专家与会者将参与一套迭代的促进设计为基础的练习，以制定原型课程。讲习班结束后，将向更广泛的同业群体公开提供所编制的课程，目的是建立一个新的网络，继续协作开发和推广内容和资源。如果成功的话，通过这个项目开发的框架，课程和实践社区有可能为不断发展的本科STEM教育提供一条途径，以更好地应对迅速出现的经济，环境和社会挑战。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该项目属于NSF学生学习项目，该项目支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by developing a vision for STEM education that will prepare students for emerging technical and societal challenges. This project will convene discussions to explore current and future contexts for STEM education. Building off these discussions, the project will envision models for future STEM education. The project will consider STEM education from a perspective that integrates foundational knowledge (to know), meta-knowledge (to act), and humanistic knowledge (to value). The investigators expect that this perspective will provide better alignment of STEM education with technical and societal challenges than a knowledge-centric education. The project focuses on two gaps in current STEM education models. The first is the gap between the need for students to learn STEM concepts and the need for them to develop the creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills needed for ethical decision-making and action. The second gap occurs because STEM courses and degree programs continue to reside within traditional STEM disciplinary boundaries, even as our most pressing problems require interdisciplinary work. The project's goal is to collaboratively establish a vision for the future of STEM education and develop a well-articulated framework that describes this future. This project will build a virtual community of practice that will meet in person to articulate a framework for the future of STEM education with potential to achieve the project vision. The pre-workshop activities will consist of a series of open internet-based discussions featuring invited expert keynotes. The objective of the discussion includes: (1) to build a community of practice; (2) to acquaint participants with the motivation, context, and key concepts of the workshop; and (3) to envision and converge on the curricular types, learner personas, and agenda for the workshop. Workshop participants will be selected from this community of practice, based on their expertise, knowledge, engagement, and leadership in the field. At the two-day, studio-format workshop, approximately 50 expert participants will engage in an iterative set of facilitated design-based exercises to develop prototype curricula. Following the workshop, the developed curricula will be openly available to the wider community of practice, with the aim of fostering an emergent network that will continue to collaboratively develop and iterate content and resources. If successful, the framework, curricula, and community of practice developed through this project has the potential to provide a pathway for evolving undergraduate STEM education to better meet rapidly emerging economic, environmental, and societal challenges.The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is within the Engaged Student Learning track, which supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.