Tennessee STEM Innovation Summit

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CATEGORIES
Technology & Innovation

YEARS
2024

LOCATION
Nashville Tennessee

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DESCRIPTION
Driving change in K-12 Education/STEM education and PBL in all subjects. Jorge Valenzuela “Project-Based Learning Grades 6-12 Enhancing academic social and emotional learning.” Empowering educator. Learn Discover Explore…everyone needs purpose. Focus on passion and purpose. Key points: Five steps for how to connect passion to purpose. IF, else and then….algorithms. Grade 11 ELA students stop asking what’s expected and start asking what is possible. What are the benefits of design thinking? Building resiliency—maybe not your best work but freedom to fail or struggle. Passion Project planner: Takes a student into an area they are not comfortable in and empathize with. Inspires creativity. Empathize with the different stakeholders in this issue. Persuasion requires a paintbrush and not a hammer. Define: Write a problem statement Ideate: How am I going to communicate this with my audience.