Ms. Anderson's STEM Blog

Hello everyone, welcome to my first blog reflection post!     As the world changes, the ideas and thoughts on education and skills are changing with it. Thinking about new skills that are needed in this changing world brings forth many questions about what an education needs to involve in classrooms today. When thinking about '21st century skills', a lot of varying ideas surprised me. To me, 21st century skills include collaboration, technology use and interpersonal skills. In a classroom today, these seem to be difficult to incorporate- why the resistance?            The main points of this discussion were the importance of updating what skills society thinks are important and how these can be seen in a classroom setting. In a technological based society, there needs to be a shift in the main focuses of education. STEM education needs attention and needs to be altered for todays's world (Davis et al.,  2019). Most of...

  Hello everyone and welcome to my STEM blog! My name is Madison Anderson, and I am a student at Brock University in the the Concurrent Education program at the junior/ intermediate level with a mathematics teachable.   This blog, titled Ms. Anderson's STEM Blog, sets out to reflect and discuss different perspectives and issues in learning and teaching STEM related subjects. In this changing world, the perspectives on STEM curriculum and its' influences are extremely important. The challenges that STEM based learning and teaching face are endless and the goal of this blog is to critically reflect and analyze my experience as a lifelong learner and future educator. STEM subjects can be really daunting for students and teachers! Throughout this blog the principles, theories and concepts of STEM education will be reflected upon to begin to understand how to effectively teach these subjects. As someone who is passionate about the subject of mathematics, I hope to share the ne...