Understanding the Shift from STEM to STEAM

so I follow education research pretty closely and something I find interesting is that when an idea becomes really popular in the education sphere the first place you see it in the world is usually in like the toy aisle at Target like the first time I saw steam so stem is science technology engineering and Mathematics and when you put an A in that we'll get to it it's totally fine that's steam the first time I saw steam was in the toy aisle at Target when all the toys that used to say stem learning stem now they say steam learning steam even though they they're the same toy it's just that marketers are the first people to co-opt education buzzwords and just shove it into desperate parents' hands be like you want your child to succeed right you better buy the steam toy like look at this slime it's educational I bet there's a bucket of slime in this box and maybe a little piece of paper that gives you ideas on how to make it educational but that's that's not what an educational toy is if something is going to be an educational toy you need someone to have developed a learning plan like what are the expected learning outcomes for this project and what is the metric by which you are going to test whether or not the learning goals were achieved otherwise you know you're just throwing slime at your kid desperately hoping it'll entertain them for 10 minutes while you get any time to yourself to make dinner and that's fine but that's not an educational toy but they're selling it to you like it's an educational toy isn't it weird how all the educational toys are the weird loud goopy annoying toys you would never buy usually but they're educational now [Music] so before we get to steam which is an educational teaching Style with a specific set of student outcomes and goals we have to talk about stem which like funnily enough is not that stem is not a way to teach science technology engineering and Mathematics classes stem it's rooted in Immigration policy which is I don't know that's kind of interesting you can pin this on George W bush in the early 2000s who like revamped or you could say destroyed public education with the No Child Left Behind Act but also he talked a lot about the importance of making sure highly trained immigrants don't come and take jobs that Americans could not fill which seems like an odd way to phrase that like I understand specifically as a matter of National Security you want to have citizens who are highly trained and technically skilled and can do jobs and make inventions that can keep our country globally competitive I understand that that is important it's just a weird way to phrase it as as immigration policy it's like well no no no we don't want highly trained technically skilled people to come here and become citizens we want those to be our own people it's like why why not both but I understand it and this is actually how most countries talk about stem you you can read about it on Wikipedia if you want if you go to the.gov website on our stem policy that's what you'll see stem in itself is not a way to teach those classes stem is making sure those classes get taught by providing funding to make sure all schools offer these classes at the elementary school level all the way up to the high school level uh schools can apply for government grants in order to like form robotics clubs or get computers in the classrooms all that stuff so stem by itself is not a way to teach stem classes it is just an identification of the government's interest in ensuring that we have a sci scientifically literate population and we can be globally competitive that's what stem is it has nothing to do with how the courses are [Music] taught when you tell people about steam sometimes they'll laugh at it the person who knows that stem is science technology engineering and math and they're like so you're just going to add art and then you say no steam is about the Arts and Humanities and they say well isn't that just a liberal education if you're doing all the science and all the Arts and Humanities that's just all the things and I do think that's funny but that's not what steam is so what steam is is a pedagogical approach to teaching stem courses it takes the critical thinking skills and the creative problem solving skills you you use in the Arts and Humanities and it uses those in stem education so it's a way to design a science course that uses critical thinking and problem solving skills a common complaint people my age have about their science and math education in high school is that it was just memorizing fact after fact after fact and there was no understanding requirement it was like if you memorize the science fact you got an A in science class and steam is an attempt at rectifying that steam wants to teach you how to understand science how to be scientifically literate a thing that I think is very important but we'll get into it but that is one of the reasons people laugh when you say steam it's because they don't really understand what it is yet the second type of person who laughs when you talk about steam there's a very specific type of person who thinks that they are like morally Superior that they are a better person because they study a stem topic over everyone else who's decided to do anything creative and I just I can't believe these people exist like it's so embarrassing it's like pathetic the reason I bring this up is because that type of person who thinks they're they're better than everyone else because they have an engineering degree also has never read a book in their life so they have very poor media literacy skills so when I go on to criticize steam education which is a thing I'm going to do I don't want them to misinterpret this video as me saying Arts and Humanities are bad because that couldn't be further from the truth I'm a huge proponent of the importance of a liberal education like art math science Humanities all of it's very important to be a well-rounded educated person okay so let's talk about steam I mentioned earlier that people of my generation complain about their education because it was like wrote memorization and that's kind of how science was taught when I was a kid it's just like Kepler did this and so now we know how planets work and then Newton did this and now we know how calculus works and it's just like that is not a good description of Science and it's related to the way people talked about science when I was a child adults would like look children in the face in the 90s and be like oh you're creative how fun you're going to live in poverty for the rest of your life but go have an arts degree and then they would say like oh you're smart go be a scientist like the options were creative or smart which is so insulting to everyone involved because obviously artists have to be smart and also science is one of the most creative acts that exists and it's so stupid for people to be like you know scientist they they don't think they don't think in the open box they just do math or they're not creative at all like that's such a stupid thing to say steam wants to rectify that because steam takes this creative problemsolving approach to teaching science the way actual science works is obviously a creative Endeavor like you look at the D data you look at the facts and you have to Envision a solution to that problem that matches all the facts and matches all the data and gives you an understanding of how the world works I can't State this enough one of the most creative Endeavors a human can do is is to do science okay think of what you learned in high school mitochondria is the PowerHouse of the cell right you have that memorized but what does that mean did you learn what it means or did you just memorize that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell like imagine you want an explanation for how human cells have something inside of them that looks a lot like a bacteria that has its own genome that's different from like your DNA in the nucleus of your cell how did that happen how think about it use your creative problem solving skills how can you go from single celled organism to somehow having something inside that looks like a bacteria it's one of the coolest ideas and science I really like talking about that one that's not what this video is about when I first heard about steam I was like this is brilliant like this is the most important thing that we could do to improve Science Education is to teach science how it actually is science is not oh here's the fact oh I discovered this fact oh I discovered this fact it's all of this information that you have to sift through and study and understand and put the pieces together like a little puzzle teaching science as a creative act great idea like think about the bore model of the atom when you learned that you probably sat in an eth grade like physics class and they were like here are the energy levels calculate the energy level at n equals 2 and then you just wrote it down what if instead someone was like well here are the facts right they know that atoms are neutrally charged right the the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge surrounding it are these little boys called electrons that have negative charge they know that when they look at different chemical elements they see Spectra different wavelengths of photons being emitted how can you take all of those pieces of information and know what an atom looks like how did bore come up with quantized energy how what a brilliant solution to this problem and you walk them through the steps why does it have to be quantized little shells why does it have to be specific wavelengths of photons emitted just what a great way to teach that rather than just like here it is here's the boore model calculate n equals 2 please great idea steam education is a great idea you know um but however let's talk about the bad my biggest issue with steam education is actually my issue with most hot like buzzword education ideas which is that the researchers have developed this idea when you talk about creativity and science people remember the science better they remember the scientific method better they're able to have better scientific literacy skills like later they can read articles about science and understand what it was happening better because of the way they were taught these ideas and then that moves all the way to the classroom teacher and how that appears in the classroom is often very different from how it appears in the research and there's a bunch of reasons for that and one of the reasons is like education research lag so you have these researchers who work in Academia applying for funding in Grants and doing these projects with teachers with students in classrooms and then they write up a report right they write up some papers maybe they presented a conference but how does that information travel all the way to the teacher the teacher could get the paper from the researcher and she could read it um but is she trained on reading scientific documents probably not like you you become a teacher and you get your Master's of education but you're not really learning education research you're learning how to teach how to do an education right so if she reads the paper it's going to take her a lot of time to understand when is she supposed to do this so teachers make like what $47,000 a year they work 7:30 to 5:30 they have to develop lesson plans they have to develop homework assignments they have to grade homework assignments they have to answer the 75 emails from parents who are like why did my daughter get a 9.7 out of 10 on this assignment you know and then also they have to teach for seven hours a day all of that in the day when do they have time to read scientific literature on education they don't right maybe during the summer except teachers don't get paid during the summer I I'm against people working for free so they should not but even if they wanted to read literature in the summer they used have to get other jobs because rent doesn't stop in the summer because you don't get paid during the summer do you know what I mean so teachers getting this information directly from the scientists is not as easy as it sounds like I don't want them to work for free so when should they do that do you know what I mean of course the academics could be responsible for disseminating their their information to the teachers but they're also not paid for that they apply for a grant and usually it's like here's the money to do the research and that's it so on their own time they have to write up the research and present the research are they also supposed to develop a workshop that they can give to high school teachers and then they're supposed to travel the country talk they don't have time to do that also they should not be working for free look at me telling teachers and academics to stop working for free like that's ever going to happen stop working for free stop it it's bad to do that whatever anyway the academics also don't have the time or the money to to get this information so there's this huge gap if you get your masters of education you will learn the latest tools and the latest ideas but then you just go straight to the workforce you don't go back to school like you're required by States depending on the state to do a certain number of workshops and all this stuff but you don't go back to school and start over so there is a lag time between research being done in in Academia and that research appearing in the classroom okay this Gap though unfortunately is filled with people trying to Pro Prof it off the lack of communication between these two groups you have a bunch of scammers who are like hey teacher who makes $47,000 a year give me $1,200 for this course on Steam education and then they just email out like a bunch of PowerPoint slides and stuff that's that sucks like the teachers want to help the students and so they they look for information and it's just like scammers taking their money and I mean not all of these people are scammers you also have a bunch of like bossy boss boss babes who are like I used to be an elementary school teacher but now I make money on Instagram selling courses and like they're not professionally trained researchers they're not they are not the experts who teachers should be getting advice from maybe they're not scammers but a lot of it's just really bad information I'm just going to play one one of the things I'd first like to introduce you to is using pipe cleaners in your classroom they're not just for little kids anymore pip cleaners are great teaching instruments for so many different ways as I talk and I give direct instruction to my students I know that they're not always going to want to look at my face or the notes that I have on the board and at times instead of looking out the window I would prefer for them to be looking at what I'm doing that I don't necessarily need to be paying a lot of attention to but that what I'm doing is related to what we're learning about so right now you and I are learning about people and teaching steam so I'm making a little person and maybe if you have a pipe cleaner at your house you might be following making the little person but if you give your students the pipe cleaners and they make what you're making then they have a tangible connection now I don't think this woman is a scammer but saying you're teaching steam techniques and then your Technique air quotes I'm so sorry your Technique is to do the exact same science lesson you would have done except hand all the children pipe cleaners is not steam steam is not adding art and pipe cleaners are not art in that context that's just a fidget spinner steam is taking the approaches that people do to teach art and doing it in a science class you can't give the same lesson you have to redo your science lessons and approach science as a topic in a creative and critical thinking problem solving way handing everyone pipe cleaners is not doing a steam education and I can't believe she sold this class for money there there of course could be a reason you hand out pipe cleaners and be like you just do something with your hands while you watch me talk about science but that's not steam education that's just definitively not steam education you don't know what you're talking about and you're selling a class this is like 20 years old I don't I'm sure she's not selling this anymore but it's still on YouTube this is the problem right there is research and there are people who work on the ground and there is a lack of communication with the two that is just filled with nonsense which is why I think it's not great that we are implementing seam right now because the teachers I don't think based on what I've seen based on the courses and things that are being taught and recommended I don't think they know what steam is yet of course handing everyone a pipe cleaner and saying you're doing a steam doesn't really affect how the course is taught like you're still just teaching it the same way it was taught before which is not great but I mean it's not like you're making worse outcomes for your students however my biggest problem with this widespread adoption of steam is how I see teachers and schools talking about steam because the thing about public education is that it is not job training STEM talks about how to be globally competitive we need to produce strong technical adults right but that is not how how you teach the class you don't teach calculus and imply to all the students that the only way they'll ever be successful in life is if they pass calculus and they go on to be a stem career and they keep us globally competitive that's not what stem says stem does not tell you how to teach the stem classes steam wants to tell you how to teach the stem classes but people are taking the job search rhetoric about stem and using it in the classroom just like the 21st century Workforce is going to need highly trained steam people we got to do steam because we don't know what the job force will be like in 20 years and it's just like I love teachers I really do do we think teachers should be giving job hunting advice no no we love teachers but the traditional path of the teacher is like they get their masters and then they become a teacher and they've done like one job interview in their whole life like your average teacher has worked at their school for 17 years do you want your 15-year-old son to go talk to someone like Mr Rodriguez who's the best AP English teacher in the state and say hey Mr Rodriguez I know 17 years ago you had one job interview can you tell me about like what employment is like and what a career is like and what kind of job I should get we love Mr Rodriguez he's a great teacher but he has no idea he should not be giving job hunting advice to children because he doesn't know that and we should not expect him to he knows English and he knows how to teach English and that's what he should be doing have you ever been job hunting and someone 30 years older than you is like let me tell you what i' do get your suit on you know what I mean if you have not been job hunting like traditional first time out of college job hunting in 20 years you have no idea what it's like and you should not be giving advice and the way steam education is presented by Educators is like we don't know what jobs are going to be like we have to prepare them and I just how can you prepare them if you don't know what it's going to be like and also you haven't had a job interview in 17 years this is not your job public school is not job training like why not just sell all the elementary schools to Amazon fulfillment centers and they can just go to the elementary school/ Amazon fulfillment center and get to work right away public school is about education it is not job training and it should not be otherwise the capitalist win okay we want the children to learn the science so they can be good citizens so we can be globally competitive so they can make an informed choice on what career path they want to go to it is not the job of the teacher the high school teacher who has not applied for a job in 30 years to tell your 15-year-old son how to get an engineering job because they do not know okay it is crazy to to put that on them it is crazy to suggest that they should they should make predictions about the workforce no no steam education is not about the workforce steam education is a way to teach science and math it just paints this like really desperate picture in my brain of like a teacher getting trained up on Steam and every time a seven-year-old student is like I love drawing they just pivot them into like you know sometimes computer scientists have to make goys that's kind of artistic you should go do that like imagine how devastating it is for like a child interested in art every time they're like I would love to write a play they're just pivoted into like you know where writing is important technical writing for technical manuals you know some people with English degrees can get jobs at like law firms to write technical manuals how about that like the devastation of taking a child showing interest in a creative field and just pivoting them every time just like oh you like singing you know you could sing while you work the oil field they were headphones no one would be able to hear you isn't that great like maybe you should go into that you know technical finally this is my very selfish reason for saying this is a bad implementation of steam education which is that I think art is important I want children who want to do art to get to do that I want the seven-year-old right now to write a book or a video game or a movie 25 years from now so that I can read or play or watch that movie I I think art is good hot take and I want children who are interested in that to be encouraged to do that and I want us as a society to value that art and if we take every single kid and we hard pivot them into steam because it's kind of art there's kind of Art in there that's real bad I don't like it I want kids to be able to do art and I want everyone to realize how good it is we all like watching movies if we get rid of all the artists we won't have any movies I mean we already don't it's just sequel after sequel after sequel imagine Jurassic Universe we're going to have to watch that my biggest fear with the way I see Steam being pushed into schools is that people misunderstand it people think it has art steam does not have art steam is a way of teaching stem courses to be like creative problem solving we already talked about it but it is not teaching art teaching art and Humanities is separate from Steam but My worry is that six years from now when a school is deciding whether to cut the art program or the steam program they're going to look at the steam program and be like there's art in there that's fine just throw away all the Arts just do Steam and that's bad I have a fundamental belief that a liberal public education should be free and easy to get for every single person in our society and you know Civic pH and calculus and gym class and art class and physics class should all be held to high standards to make citizens who are media literate and scientifically literate and they have a good base founding to go on and do the career that they want to do and that includes art I'm really worried that this incorrect implementation of steam is just going to shut out art funding and that would be devastating of course the solution to this problem is to pay teachers more and pay them for the summer so that they could attend workshops that we pay academics to teach during the summer just like more money for everyone so that there is time money equals time for these people to learn how to correctly Implement stee into their science classrooms that's the solution but like we'll see it's [Music] fine so I love education research before I went into physics I was getting my masters of education I was teaching at a public High School like a physics class and after I finished my masters of education I wanted to do education research like what is the best way to teach science but instead I went into physics instead don't I know who cares about physics because I think what is the best way to teach science is a very interesting question because if you want science to improve and move forward you need a good founding of Science Education and what is the best way to teach science what is the research we can do to discover how to reach the the maximum amount of people and make sure they understand how to think critically and scientifically and when they read a science article they can tell right away if it's garbage because because they have good scientific literacy skills how do we do that what an interesting question the problem is like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter the real bad is that it doesn't matter 0% of this matters This research doesn't matter if you are lucky enough to live in a good school district and you send your kids to safe happy school with teachers who are paid a living wage and the district has decided they want to implement steam education because it's really important for the workforce of the 21st century or whatever all that means is that on Tuesdays your second grader is going to attend an hourong class where they play with Legos and do an engineering project I'm not saying the engineering with Legos is a bad project it's totally fine it's just like in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter because Republicans have been destroying the public education system in America for 50 years you can draw a direct line from Ronald Reagan's attack on college students protesting the Vietnam War to your student loan debt before Reagan was the governor of California College tuition in the state was free his goal was to end government spending on public colleges and he was very successful the United States is fighting a war which the students in the United States don't believe in when we set out to try and meet in cooperation with the University the financial problem of this state recognizing the need to keep the University at its high level we intended to meet with them around a table quietly when I say we I mean the people of our Administration the financial people the budget Department to see how the university which is a large share of the general fund spending how they could cooperate with us to help us meet this financial problem and not harm the quality of education and within 24 hours we were being attacked uh by these people as if we had laid down an ultimatum and we were out to destroy education and we were out to destroy education you can draw a direct line from George Bush passing the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 to the reduction of public school funding in every single lower income community in America you ever wonder why you were so good at math in high school and then you go to college and you have no idea how to study and just failed out of the math class you took it's because No Child Left Behind lowered the education standards in every single school in America you weren't so smart the government specifically prevented the teachers from providing you with an education you were robbed of your education and in return you just got a 3.5 GPA George Bush and we owe the Children of America a good education and today begins a new era a a new time in public education in our country as of this hour America schools would be on A New Path of Reform and A New Path of results the Trump Administration passed through school choice reform which was so far screamingly successful as a way to funnel funding from public schools into expensive privatized unregulated schools and air quotes for Rich Kids the goal the goal the stated goal which they say aloud is to get rid of public school education alog together and I would like your your views on uh the relative advantage of profi measuring doing assessments and using them to measure proficiency or to meas measure growth thank you senator for that question um I think if if I'm understanding your question correctly around proficiency I would I would also um correlate it to competency and Mastery so that you each student is measured according to the um advancement that they're making in each subject area well that's growth that's not proficiency so in other words the growth they're making is in growth the proficiency is an arbitrary standard reached a level the proficiency is if they've reached a a like third grade level for reading Etc no I'm talking about the debate between proficiency and growth yes what your thoughts are on them well I was just asking to clarify then well this is this is a subject that is has been debated in the education Community for years but it surprises me that you don't know this issue you say a factual statement like the Republican stated goal is to end public school education people are like they would never do that we would never let them do that but they're saying that's what they want to do and that's what they're going to do if you went to college in California in 1970 and your total bill for all four years of education was $1,400 and I told you hey in 40 years your grandson is going to go to the same school you did get the same degree you did and he's going to pay $6,000 would you say no that's crazy we would never let that happen because they said that that's what they wanted and that is what's happened when people show you who they are believe them yes absolutely a person says to you I'm selfish or I'm mean or I am unkind or I'm crazy or I'm believe them they know themselves much better than you do listen to what people are saying and it's actually super weird how vocal Republicans are about hating education it's weird right that's what they say out loud Republicans specifically hate children and don't want them to have an education the federal government has provided money and sent it to States for lowincome children to be able to have access to food which they would not otherwise have access to and the Republican governors of those states have decided like no they would rather have the kids be hungry they don't want the money the money is just sitting there they don't want it they would rather the children be hungry unless like you know they could just get rid of child labor laws maybe instead of reading Captain Underpants the 10-year-old could just go work at McDonald's I guess like children yearn for the minds the Republican stated plan of you know ending public school education and making children go to work and making sure that they don't have access to food is in sharp contrast to the Biden government at the very start of his administration Biden had this America family plan and it wanted to provide comprehensive paid leave you know like every other country in the world after you have a baby get paid leave to spend time with the baby and make sure you don't die from sepsis it offered Universal preschool for all three and four year olds just like we have public school for 5 to 18 and this is a huge thing for me problems students have later on in their education career can be fixed by attending public school because they would have access to a breakfast and lunch they would have access to trained Educators who could recognize signs of them like needing glass classes or needing early intervention for walking or needing early intervention for reading or all of those things could be provided by people who care for children and got those jobs to do that by the way here's what the uh Republican Vice Presidential nominee thinks about Universal preschool Universal preschool is literally the one thing we could do that would cost very little but improve the lives of the vast majority of Americans by getting rid of daycare costs by providing early intervention by giving food to children who do not have access to it and you know there was other stuff like free community college for 2 years uh getting rid of student debt increasing the pelant program but you know every single Republican refused to vote for it so all the good things were stripped and it was just taken off the table it's weird it's like Republicans vocally say that they hate everything that's good for families and children and vote against it because they would rather the kid be poor and stupid and hungry which is weird it's like they're not interested in education at all but you know what they are super interested in children's genitals this is really hard to talk about because it just it's so disgusting on a visceral level but you cannot talk to a republican about education for more than a few minutes before they start talking about children's genitals and what bathroom they use and shouldn't they hire someone to check all the girls genitals before they're allowed to play basketball go to a school board meeting and there are three people there who are scared of books and also a really weird guy who just wants to talk about children's genitals and he wants to have access to them so he can just check it you know just in case I just these people need to be on a list like these people shouldn't be allowed 200 ft of any space where children are expected to be it's shocking that this is their platform their platform is I hate children but also I'm super interested in their genitalia hot take you know but maybe don't let people who are super interested in inspecting children's generals make any decisions about what happens to Children maybe they should be on a list somewhere maybe we should check their hard drives because I I just I don't have words I don't have words let's talk about project 2025 and the future of Education under Republican governments the things they say they are going to do I'm going to read from an education week posting of it but you can just read their wacka do 900 page document if you want uh the first thing they want to do is you know get rid of the Department of Education they specifically want to close the Department of Education voting for a republican is voting to end public school education they want to implement Universal school choice a thing they've already done where you can just funnel federal government money that's supposed to be invested in the community it's supposed to be invested in children's education and just give it to random grifters that can suddenly become tax-free education organizations they want to get rid of Title One title one is a thing that was implemented in 1964 by LBJ it is uh because we have this terrible system in America where public schools are funded by local and state taxes schools that live in poor communities are going to be worse and be underfunded compared to other schools so Title One allows Federal funding to bridge that Gap and make sure all schools are on a Level Playing Field it has been in place since the 60s 63% of schools are only functioning because title one exists Republicans want to close Public Schools so they want to get critical race Theory and gender ideology excised from curriculum things that are not in curriculum but the thing about this is like where like a librarian reading that I have a dream children's book to a bunch of first graders counts as critical race Theory and so they just want to get rid of that they just want to get rid of talking about Martin Luther King in school but like do that with everything suddenly talking about unions in a high school history class counts as critical race Theory talking about slavery counts as critical race Theory you get it they can just remove anything they don't want from education because they want you to be stupid that's the goal but don't worry they're still obsessed with children's genitals project 2025 proposes defining sex under the federal Landmark sex discrimination law to mean only biological sex recognized at Birth instead of you know talking about what the best way to teach science is and how can we get more kids involved in learning about technology they just want to Define biological sex all I want to do is talk about science and learn science and they want to destroy everything I love if you vote for Republicans you are voting to end public school education so sometimes when I talk about politics in my videos I get comments that are like stick to science stay in your lane science isn't political and I just have to laugh because that's such a stupid thing to say but also I've just shown you science is political it's factually incorrect to say science isn't political the people who get to do science got good science educations the people who get good science educations go to good schools Republicans want to close public schools which means you don't get to do science so many women people of color queer people have to turn down jobs that just happen to be in states that are hostile to their human rights if you get into the best school in America to study curing cancer but in that state you're not considered a human being you don't get to go to that state how can we get to Star Trek if more than half the people who want to do science are not allowed to do science science is political because everything is political anyway I don't want want to be a Doomer I love America I really do there are so many great things about the American education system for example I love how our liberal education system allows children all the way up to 18 to have a broad range of interests other countries Force 12y olds to decide what career they want to do and qualify for an exam or they just never get to go to the college they want to in America we have the freedom to follow the career path we want you know right now so here's just a list of things we can do to maintain this for the future the first is to vote you know write down the ballot vote for public school education only one party wants to close the Department of Education and close 63% of public schools so just vote for the other one also you know vote in local elections when people run for school board look up when that is on like the random day look up when that election is and call the people people running for your school board ask them how they feel about steam education and if they start giving you Republican talking points you know tell your friends post on Instagram and Facebook and say and just say this weirdo wants to close public schools and he's running for Schoolboard don't vote for this guy and get a sign get the sign for your local election for the guy that knows what steam education is and put it in your yard you have to be just as vocal as these wacka are and this is a big ask but I think we should all make an effort to go to our local school board meetings because the thing about these freaks is that they are absolutely a minority these losers drive from town to Town showing up at Schoolboard meetings and crying into a microphone about how Ramona Quimby age8 shouldn't be in the library because she used a pronoun and I'm scared no one else is there like that insane woman is the only one that showed up but if we were there to be like whoa it sounds like you need to go to therapy do you even live here do you even have children here let's stop listening to that woman and let's talk about steam education this would just go away because this is like one loser driving across Massachusetts do you know what I mean you see if you're there and you're vocal you can just shut them down they are a minority and you know finally if you're at the school board meeting when one of these weirdos just walks up to the microphone and starts talking about children's genitalia just have an appropriate response oh my God what the why are you talking about children's genitals oh my god there are children here why are you at a Schoolboard meeting talking about children's genitals do you think this is appropriate get out of here and then take a picture of them and call the police because these people need their hard drives checked

so I follow education research pretty closely and something I find interesting is that when an idea becomes really popular in the education sphere the first place you see it in the world is usually in like the toy aisle at Target like the first time I saw steam so stem is science technology engineering and Mathematics and when you put an A in that we'll get to it it's totally fine that's steam the first time I saw steam was in the toy aisle at Target when all the toys that used to say stem learning stem now they say steam learning steam even though they they're the same toy it's just that marketers are the first people to co-opt education buzzwords and just shove it into desperate parents' hands be like you want your child to succeed right you better buy the steam toy like look at this slime it's educational I bet there's a bucket of slime in this box and maybe a little piece of paper that gives you ideas on how to make it educational but that's that's not what an educational toy is if something is going to be an educational toy you need someone to have developed a learning plan like what are the expected learning outcomes for this project and what is the metric by which you are going to test whether or not the learning goals were achieved otherwise you know you're just throwing slime at your kid desperately hoping it'll entertain them for 10 minutes while you get any time to yourself to make dinner and that's fine but that's not an educational toy but they're selling it to you like it's an educational toy isn't it weird how all the educational toys are the weird loud goopy annoying toys you would never buy usually but they're educational now [Music] so before we get to steam which is an educational teaching Style with a specific set of student outcomes and goals we have to talk about stem which like funnily enough is not that stem is not a way to teach science technology engineering and Mathematics classes stem it's rooted in Immigration policy which is I don't know that's kind of interesting you can pin this on George W bush in the early 2000s who like revamped or you could say destroyed public education with the No Child Left Behind Act but also he talked a lot about the importance of making sure highly trained immigrants don't come and take jobs that Americans could not fill which seems like an odd way to phrase that like I understand specifically as a matter of National Security you want to have citizens who are highly trained and technically skilled and can do jobs and make inventions that can keep our country globally competitive I understand that that is important it's just a weird way to phrase it as as immigration policy it's like well no no no we don't want highly trained technically skilled people to come here and become citizens we want those to be our own people it's like why why not both but I understand it and this is actually how most countries talk about stem you you can read about it on Wikipedia if you want if you go to the.gov website on our stem policy that's what you'll see stem in itself is not a way to teach those classes stem is making sure those classes get taught by providing funding to make sure all schools offer these classes at the elementary school level all the way up to the high school level uh schools can apply for government grants in order to like form robotics clubs or get computers in the classrooms all that stuff so stem by itself is not a way to teach stem classes it is just an identification of the government's interest in ensuring that we have a sci scientifically literate population and we can be globally competitive that's what stem is it has nothing to do with how the courses are [Music] taught when you tell people about steam sometimes they'll laugh at it the person who knows that stem is science technology engineering and math and they're like so you're just going to add art and then you say no steam is about the Arts and Humanities and they say well isn't that just a liberal education if you're doing all the science and all the Arts and Humanities that's just all the things and I do think that's funny but that's not what steam is so what steam is is a pedagogical approach to teaching stem courses it takes the critical thinking skills and the creative problem solving skills you you use in the Arts and Humanities and it uses those in stem education so it's a way to design a science course that uses critical thinking and problem solving skills a common complaint people my age have about their science and math education in high school is that it was just memorizing fact after fact after fact and there was no understanding requirement it was like if you memorize the science fact you got an A in science class and steam is an attempt at rectifying that steam wants to teach you how to understand science how to be scientifically literate a thing that I think is very important but we'll get into it but that is one of the reasons people laugh when you say steam it's because they don't really understand what it is yet the second type of person who laughs when you talk about steam there's a very specific type of person who thinks that they are like morally Superior that they are a better person because they study a stem topic over everyone else who's decided to do anything creative and I just I can't believe these people exist like it's so embarrassing it's like pathetic the reason I bring this up is because that type of person who thinks they're they're better than everyone else because they have an engineering degree also has never read a book in their life so they have very poor media literacy skills so when I go on to criticize steam education which is a thing I'm going to do I don't want them to misinterpret this video as me saying Arts and Humanities are bad because that couldn't be further from the truth I'm a huge proponent of the importance of a liberal education like art math science Humanities all of it's very important to be a well-rounded educated person okay so let's talk about steam I mentioned earlier that people of my generation complain about their education because it was like wrote memorization and that's kind of how science was taught when I was a kid it's just like Kepler did this and so now we know how planets work and then Newton did this and now we know how calculus works and it's just like that is not a good description of Science and it's related to the way people talked about science when I was a child adults would like look children in the face in the 90s and be like oh you're creative how fun you're going to live in poverty for the rest of your life but go have an arts degree and then they would say like oh you're smart go be a scientist like the options were creative or smart which is so insulting to everyone involved because obviously artists have to be smart and also science is one of the most creative acts that exists and it's so stupid for people to be like you know scientist they they don't think they don't think in the open box they just do math or they're not creative at all like that's such a stupid thing to say steam wants to rectify that because steam takes this creative problemsolving approach to teaching science the way actual science works is obviously a creative Endeavor like you look at the D data you look at the facts and you have to Envision a solution to that problem that matches all the facts and matches all the data and gives you an understanding of how the world works I can't State this enough one of the most creative Endeavors a human can do is is to do science okay think of what you learned in high school mitochondria is the PowerHouse of the cell right you have that memorized but what does that mean did you learn what it means or did you just memorize that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell like imagine you want an explanation for how human cells have something inside of them that looks a lot like a bacteria that has its own genome that's different from like your DNA in the nucleus of your cell how did that happen how think about it use your creative problem solving skills how can you go from single celled organism to somehow having something inside that looks like a bacteria it's one of the coolest ideas and science I really like talking about that one that's not what this video is about when I first heard about steam I was like this is brilliant like this is the most important thing that we could do to improve Science Education is to teach science how it actually is science is not oh here's the fact oh I discovered this fact oh I discovered this fact it's all of this information that you have to sift through and study and understand and put the pieces together like a little puzzle teaching science as a creative act great idea like think about the bore model of the atom when you learned that you probably sat in an eth grade like physics class and they were like here are the energy levels calculate the energy level at n equals 2 and then you just wrote it down what if instead someone was like well here are the facts right they know that atoms are neutrally charged right the the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge surrounding it are these little boys called electrons that have negative charge they know that when they look at different chemical elements they see Spectra different wavelengths of photons being emitted how can you take all of those pieces of information and know what an atom looks like how did bore come up with quantized energy how what a brilliant solution to this problem and you walk them through the steps why does it have to be quantized little shells why does it have to be specific wavelengths of photons emitted just what a great way to teach that rather than just like here it is here's the boore model calculate n equals 2 please great idea steam education is a great idea you know um but however let's talk about the bad my biggest issue with steam education is actually my issue with most hot like buzzword education ideas which is that the researchers have developed this idea when you talk about creativity and science people remember the science better they remember the scientific method better they're able to have better scientific literacy skills like later they can read articles about science and understand what it was happening better because of the way they were taught these ideas and then that moves all the way to the classroom teacher and how that appears in the classroom is often very different from how it appears in the research and there's a bunch of reasons for that and one of the reasons is like education research lag so you have these researchers who work in Academia applying for funding in Grants and doing these projects with teachers with students in classrooms and then they write up a report right they write up some papers maybe they presented a conference but how does that information travel all the way to the teacher the teacher could get the paper from the researcher and she could read it um but is she trained on reading scientific documents probably not like you you become a teacher and you get your Master's of education but you're not really learning education research you're learning how to teach how to do an education right so if she reads the paper it's going to take her a lot of time to understand when is she supposed to do this so teachers make like what $47,000 a year they work 7:30 to 5:30 they have to develop lesson plans they have to develop homework assignments they have to grade homework assignments they have to answer the 75 emails from parents who are like why did my daughter get a 9.7 out of 10 on this assignment you know and then also they have to teach for seven hours a day all of that in the day when do they have time to read scientific literature on education they don't right maybe during the summer except teachers don't get paid during the summer I I'm against people working for free so they should not but even if they wanted to read literature in the summer they used have to get other jobs because rent doesn't stop in the summer because you don't get paid during the summer do you know what I mean so teachers getting this information directly from the scientists is not as easy as it sounds like I don't want them to work for free so when should they do that do you know what I mean of course the academics could be responsible for disseminating their their information to the teachers but they're also not paid for that they apply for a grant and usually it's like here's the money to do the research and that's it so on their own time they have to write up the research and present the research are they also supposed to develop a workshop that they can give to high school teachers and then they're supposed to travel the country talk they don't have time to do that also they should not be working for free look at me telling teachers and academics to stop working for free like that's ever going to happen stop working for free stop it it's bad to do that whatever anyway the academics also don't have the time or the money to to get this information so there's this huge gap if you get your masters of education you will learn the latest tools and the latest ideas but then you just go straight to the workforce you don't go back to school like you're required by States depending on the state to do a certain number of workshops and all this stuff but you don't go back to school and start over so there is a lag time between research being done in in Academia and that research appearing in the classroom okay this Gap though unfortunately is filled with people trying to Pro Prof it off the lack of communication between these two groups you have a bunch of scammers who are like hey teacher who makes $47,000 a year give me $1,200 for this course on Steam education and then they just email out like a bunch of PowerPoint slides and stuff that's that sucks like the teachers want to help the students and so they they look for information and it's just like scammers taking their money and I mean not all of these people are scammers you also have a bunch of like bossy boss boss babes who are like I used to be an elementary school teacher but now I make money on Instagram selling courses and like they're not professionally trained researchers they're not they are not the experts who teachers should be getting advice from maybe they're not scammers but a lot of it's just really bad information I'm just going to play one one of the things I'd first like to introduce you to is using pipe cleaners in your classroom they're not just for little kids anymore pip cleaners are great teaching instruments for so many different ways as I talk and I give direct instruction to my students I know that they're not always going to want to look at my face or the notes that I have on the board and at times instead of looking out the window I would prefer for them to be looking at what I'm doing that I don't necessarily need to be paying a lot of attention to but that what I'm doing is related to what we're learning about so right now you and I are learning about people and teaching steam so I'm making a little person and maybe if you have a pipe cleaner at your house you might be following making the little person but if you give your students the pipe cleaners and they make what you're making then they have a tangible connection now I don't think this woman is a scammer but saying you're teaching steam techniques and then your Technique air quotes I'm so sorry your Technique is to do the exact same science lesson you would have done except hand all the children pipe cleaners is not steam steam is not adding art and pipe cleaners are not art in that context that's just a fidget spinner steam is taking the approaches that people do to teach art and doing it in a science class you can't give the same lesson you have to redo your science lessons and approach science as a topic in a creative and critical thinking problem solving way handing everyone pipe cleaners is not doing a steam education and I can't believe she sold this class for money there there of course could be a reason you hand out pipe cleaners and be like you just do something with your hands while you watch me talk about science but that's not steam education that's just definitively not steam education you don't know what you're talking about and you're selling a class this is like 20 years old I don't I'm sure she's not selling this anymore but it's still on YouTube this is the problem right there is research and there are people who work on the ground and there is a lack of communication with the two that is just filled with nonsense which is why I think it's not great that we are implementing seam right now because the teachers I don't think based on what I've seen based on the courses and things that are being taught and recommended I don't think they know what steam is yet of course handing everyone a pipe cleaner and saying you're doing a steam doesn't really affect how the course is taught like you're still just teaching it the same way it was taught before which is not great but I mean it's not like you're making worse outcomes for your students however my biggest problem with this widespread adoption of steam is how I see teachers and schools talking about steam because the thing about public education is that it is not job training STEM talks about how to be globally competitive we need to produce strong technical adults right but that is not how how you teach the class you don't teach calculus and imply to all the students that the only way they'll ever be successful in life is if they pass calculus and they go on to be a stem career and they keep us globally competitive that's not what stem says stem does not tell you how to teach the stem classes steam wants to tell you how to teach the stem classes but people are taking the job search rhetoric about stem and using it in the classroom just like the 21st century Workforce is going to need highly trained steam people we got to do steam because we don't know what the job force will be like in 20 years and it's just like I love teachers I really do do we think teachers should be giving job hunting advice no no we love teachers but the traditional path of the teacher is like they get their masters and then they become a teacher and they've done like one job interview in their whole life like your average teacher has worked at their school for 17 years do you want your 15-year-old son to go talk to someone like Mr Rodriguez who's the best AP English teacher in the state and say hey Mr Rodriguez I know 17 years ago you had one job interview can you tell me about like what employment is like and what a career is like and what kind of job I should get we love Mr Rodriguez he's a great teacher but he has no idea he should not be giving job hunting advice to children because he doesn't know that and we should not expect him to he knows English and he knows how to teach English and that's what he should be doing have you ever been job hunting and someone 30 years older than you is like let me tell you what i' do get your suit on you know what I mean if you have not been job hunting like traditional first time out of college job hunting in 20 years you have no idea what it's like and you should not be giving advice and the way steam education is presented by Educators is like we don't know what jobs are going to be like we have to prepare them and I just how can you prepare them if you don't know what it's going to be like and also you haven't had a job interview in 17 years this is not your job public school is not job training like why not just sell all the elementary schools to Amazon fulfillment centers and they can just go to the elementary school/ Amazon fulfillment center and get to work right away public school is about education it is not job training and it should not be otherwise the capitalist win okay we want the children to learn the science so they can be good citizens so we can be globally competitive so they can make an informed choice on what career path they want to go to it is not the job of the teacher the high school teacher who has not applied for a job in 30 years to tell your 15-year-old son how to get an engineering job because they do not know okay it is crazy to to put that on them it is crazy to suggest that they should they should make predictions about the workforce no no steam education is not about the workforce steam education is a way to teach science and math it just paints this like really desperate picture in my brain of like a teacher getting trained up on Steam and every time a seven-year-old student is like I love drawing they just pivot them into like you know sometimes computer scientists have to make goys that's kind of artistic you should go do that like imagine how devastating it is for like a child interested in art every time they're like I would love to write a play they're just pivoted into like you know where writing is important technical writing for technical manuals you know some people with English degrees can get jobs at like law firms to write technical manuals how about that like the devastation of taking a child showing interest in a creative field and just pivoting them every time just like oh you like singing you know you could sing while you work the oil field they were headphones no one would be able to hear you isn't that great like maybe you should go into that you know technical finally this is my very selfish reason for saying this is a bad implementation of steam education which is that I think art is important I want children who want to do art to get to do that I want the seven-year-old right now to write a book or a video game or a movie 25 years from now so that I can read or play or watch that movie I I think art is good hot take and I want children who are interested in that to be encouraged to do that and I want us as a society to value that art and if we take every single kid and we hard pivot them into steam because it's kind of art there's kind of Art in there that's real bad I don't like it I want kids to be able to do art and I want everyone to realize how good it is we all like watching movies if we get rid of all the artists we won't have any movies I mean we already don't it's just sequel after sequel after sequel imagine Jurassic Universe we're going to have to watch that my biggest fear with the way I see Steam being pushed into schools is that people misunderstand it people think it has art steam does not have art steam is a way of teaching stem courses to be like creative problem solving we already talked about it but it is not teaching art teaching art and Humanities is separate from Steam but My worry is that six years from now when a school is deciding whether to cut the art program or the steam program they're going to look at the steam program and be like there's art in there that's fine just throw away all the Arts just do Steam and that's bad I have a fundamental belief that a liberal public education should be free and easy to get for every single person in our society and you know Civic pH and calculus and gym class and art class and physics class should all be held to high standards to make citizens who are media literate and scientifically literate and they have a good base founding to go on and do the career that they want to do and that includes art I'm really worried that this incorrect implementation of steam is just going to shut out art funding and that would be devastating of course the solution to this problem is to pay teachers more and pay them for the summer so that they could attend workshops that we pay academics to teach during the summer just like more money for everyone so that there is time money equals time for these people to learn how to correctly Implement stee into their science classrooms that's the solution but like we'll see it's [Music] fine so I love education research before I went into physics I was getting my masters of education I was teaching at a public High School like a physics class and after I finished my masters of education I wanted to do education research like what is the best way to teach science but instead I went into physics instead don't I know who cares about physics because I think what is the best way to teach science is a very interesting question because if you want science to improve and move forward you need a good founding of Science Education and what is the best way to teach science what is the research we can do to discover how to reach the the maximum amount of people and make sure they understand how to think critically and scientifically and when they read a science article they can tell right away if it's garbage because because they have good scientific literacy skills how do we do that what an interesting question the problem is like it doesn't matter it doesn't matter the real bad is that it doesn't matter 0% of this matters This research doesn't matter if you are lucky enough to live in a good school district and you send your kids to safe happy school with teachers who are paid a living wage and the district has decided they want to implement steam education because it's really important for the workforce of the 21st century or whatever all that means is that on Tuesdays your second grader is going to attend an hourong class where they play with Legos and do an engineering project I'm not saying the engineering with Legos is a bad project it's totally fine it's just like in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter because Republicans have been destroying the public education system in America for 50 years you can draw a direct line from Ronald Reagan's attack on college students protesting the Vietnam War to your student loan debt before Reagan was the governor of California College tuition in the state was free his goal was to end government spending on public colleges and he was very successful the United States is fighting a war which the students in the United States don't believe in when we set out to try and meet in cooperation with the University the financial problem of this state recognizing the need to keep the University at its high level we intended to meet with them around a table quietly when I say we I mean the people of our Administration the financial people the budget Department to see how the university which is a large share of the general fund spending how they could cooperate with us to help us meet this financial problem and not harm the quality of education and within 24 hours we were being attacked uh by these people as if we had laid down an ultimatum and we were out to destroy education and we were out to destroy education you can draw a direct line from George Bush passing the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 to the reduction of public school funding in every single lower income community in America you ever wonder why you were so good at math in high school and then you go to college and you have no idea how to study and just failed out of the math class you took it's because No Child Left Behind lowered the education standards in every single school in America you weren't so smart the government specifically prevented the teachers from providing you with an education you were robbed of your education and in return you just got a 3.5 GPA George Bush and we owe the Children of America a good education and today begins a new era a a new time in public education in our country as of this hour America schools would be on A New Path of Reform and A New Path of results the Trump Administration passed through school choice reform which was so far screamingly successful as a way to funnel funding from public schools into expensive privatized unregulated schools and air quotes for Rich Kids the goal the goal the stated goal which they say aloud is to get rid of public school education alog together and I would like your your views on uh the relative advantage of profi measuring doing assessments and using them to measure proficiency or to meas measure growth thank you senator for that question um I think if if I'm understanding your question correctly around proficiency I would I would also um correlate it to competency and Mastery so that you each student is measured according to the um advancement that they're making in each subject area well that's growth that's not proficiency so in other words the growth they're making is in growth the proficiency is an arbitrary standard reached a level the proficiency is if they've reached a a like third grade level for reading Etc no I'm talking about the debate between proficiency and growth yes what your thoughts are on them well I was just asking to clarify then well this is this is a subject that is has been debated in the education Community for years but it surprises me that you don't know this issue you say a factual statement like the Republican stated goal is to end public school education people are like they would never do that we would never let them do that but they're saying that's what they want to do and that's what they're going to do if you went to college in California in 1970 and your total bill for all four years of education was $1,400 and I told you hey in 40 years your grandson is going to go to the same school you did get the same degree you did and he's going to pay $6,000 would you say no that's crazy we would never let that happen because they said that that's what they wanted and that is what's happened when people show you who they are believe them yes absolutely a person says to you I'm selfish or I'm mean or I am unkind or I'm crazy or I'm believe them they know themselves much better than you do listen to what people are saying and it's actually super weird how vocal Republicans are about hating education it's weird right that's what they say out loud Republicans specifically hate children and don't want them to have an education the federal government has provided money and sent it to States for lowincome children to be able to have access to food which they would not otherwise have access to and the Republican governors of those states have decided like no they would rather have the kids be hungry they don't want the money the money is just sitting there they don't want it they would rather the children be hungry unless like you know they could just get rid of child labor laws maybe instead of reading Captain Underpants the 10-year-old could just go work at McDonald's I guess like children yearn for the minds the Republican stated plan of you know ending public school education and making children go to work and making sure that they don't have access to food is in sharp contrast to the Biden government at the very start of his administration Biden had this America family plan and it wanted to provide comprehensive paid leave you know like every other country in the world after you have a baby get paid leave to spend time with the baby and make sure you don't die from sepsis it offered Universal preschool for all three and four year olds just like we have public school for 5 to 18 and this is a huge thing for me problems students have later on in their education career can be fixed by attending public school because they would have access to a breakfast and lunch they would have access to trained Educators who could recognize signs of them like needing glass classes or needing early intervention for walking or needing early intervention for reading or all of those things could be provided by people who care for children and got those jobs to do that by the way here's what the uh Republican Vice Presidential nominee thinks about Universal preschool Universal preschool is literally the one thing we could do that would cost very little but improve the lives of the vast majority of Americans by getting rid of daycare costs by providing early intervention by giving food to children who do not have access to it and you know there was other stuff like free community college for 2 years uh getting rid of student debt increasing the pelant program but you know every single Republican refused to vote for it so all the good things were stripped and it was just taken off the table it's weird it's like Republicans vocally say that they hate everything that's good for families and children and vote against it because they would rather the kid be poor and stupid and hungry which is weird it's like they're not interested in education at all but you know what they are super interested in children's genitals this is really hard to talk about because it just it's so disgusting on a visceral level but you cannot talk to a republican about education for more than a few minutes before they start talking about children's genitals and what bathroom they use and shouldn't they hire someone to check all the girls genitals before they're allowed to play basketball go to a school board meeting and there are three people there who are scared of books and also a really weird guy who just wants to talk about children's genitals and he wants to have access to them so he can just check it you know just in case I just these people need to be on a list like these people shouldn't be allowed 200 ft of any space where children are expected to be it's shocking that this is their platform their platform is I hate children but also I'm super interested in their genitalia hot take you know but maybe don't let people who are super interested in inspecting children's generals make any decisions about what happens to Children maybe they should be on a list somewhere maybe we should check their hard drives because I I just I don't have words I don't have words let's talk about project 2025 and the future of Education under Republican governments the things they say they are going to do I'm going to read from an education week posting of it but you can just read their wacka do 900 page document if you want uh the first thing they want to do is you know get rid of the Department of Education they specifically want to close the Department of Education voting for a republican is voting to end public school education they want to implement Universal school choice a thing they've already done where you can just funnel federal government money that's supposed to be invested in the community it's supposed to be invested in children's education and just give it to random grifters that can suddenly become tax-free education organizations they want to get rid of Title One title one is a thing that was implemented in 1964 by LBJ it is uh because we have this terrible system in America where public schools are funded by local and state taxes schools that live in poor communities are going to be worse and be underfunded compared to other schools so Title One allows Federal funding to bridge that Gap and make sure all schools are on a Level Playing Field it has been in place since the 60s 63% of schools are only functioning because title one exists Republicans want to close Public Schools so they want to get critical race Theory and gender ideology excised from curriculum things that are not in curriculum but the thing about this is like where like a librarian reading that I have a dream children's book to a bunch of first graders counts as critical race Theory and so they just want to get rid of that they just want to get rid of talking about Martin Luther King in school but like do that with everything suddenly talking about unions in a high school history class counts as critical race Theory talking about slavery counts as critical race Theory you get it they can just remove anything they don't want from education because they want you to be stupid that's the goal but don't worry they're still obsessed with children's genitals project 2025 proposes defining sex under the federal Landmark sex discrimination law to mean only biological sex recognized at Birth instead of you know talking about what the best way to teach science is and how can we get more kids involved in learning about technology they just want to Define biological sex all I want to do is talk about science and learn science and they want to destroy everything I love if you vote for Republicans you are voting to end public school education so sometimes when I talk about politics in my videos I get comments that are like stick to science stay in your lane science isn't political and I just have to laugh because that's such a stupid thing to say but also I've just shown you science is political it's factually incorrect to say science isn't political the people who get to do science got good science educations the people who get good science educations go to good schools Republicans want to close public schools which means you don't get to do science so many women people of color queer people have to turn down jobs that just happen to be in states that are hostile to their human rights if you get into the best school in America to study curing cancer but in that state you're not considered a human being you don't get to go to that state how can we get to Star Trek if more than half the people who want to do science are not allowed to do science science is political because everything is political anyway I don't want want to be a Doomer I love America I really do there are so many great things about the American education system for example I love how our liberal education system allows children all the way up to 18 to have a broad range of interests other countries Force 12y olds to decide what career they want to do and qualify for an exam or they just never get to go to the college they want to in America we have the freedom to follow the career path we want you know right now so here's just a list of things we can do to maintain this for the future the first is to vote you know write down the ballot vote for public school education only one party wants to close the Department of Education and close 63% of public schools so just vote for the other one also you know vote in local elections when people run for school board look up when that is on like the random day look up when that election is and call the people people running for your school board ask them how they feel about steam education and if they start giving you Republican talking points you know tell your friends post on Instagram and Facebook and say and just say this weirdo wants to close public schools and he's running for Schoolboard don't vote for this guy and get a sign get the sign for your local election for the guy that knows what steam education is and put it in your yard you have to be just as vocal as these wacka are and this is a big ask but I think we should all make an effort to go to our local school board meetings because the thing about these freaks is that they are absolutely a minority these losers drive from town to Town showing up at Schoolboard meetings and crying into a microphone about how Ramona Quimby age8 shouldn't be in the library because she used a pronoun and I'm scared no one else is there like that insane woman is the only one that showed up but if we were there to be like whoa it sounds like you need to go to therapy do you even live here do you even have children here let's stop listening to that woman and let's talk about steam education this would just go away because this is like one loser driving across Massachusetts do you know what I mean you see if you're there and you're vocal you can just shut them down they are a minority and you know finally if you're at the school board meeting when one of these weirdos just walks up to the microphone and starts talking about children's genitalia just have an appropriate response oh my God what the  why are you talking about children's genitals oh my god there are children here why are you at a Schoolboard meeting talking about children's genitals do you think this is appropriate get out of here and then take a picture of them and call the police because these people need their hard drives checked

Transcript for:Understanding the Shift from STEM to STEAM

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Understanding the Shift from STEM to STEAM