AAIM 2017 littleBits Presentation

How are you going to convey the makerspace idea to the administration, teachers, students, and all educational stakeholders.

 

Administrators-(Tech focused at HS)

1. Student's successfull careers (six digits)

2. Students experience something they can't get anywhere on campus.

3. You don't want everyone to believe that students are simply playing around with expensive tech toys?

 

• “the University of Arkansas has nearly 100 per cent job placement rate for its computer science graduates and there is a growing demand for graduates from that field.”

 

• The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) will grow 17 percent by 2018—nearly double the growth for non-STEM fields. By 2018, the U.S. will have more than 1.2 million unfilled STEM jobs because there will not be enough qualified workers to fill them. STEM is where jobs are today and where the job growth will be in the future.

 

• Currently there are 1,601 open computing jobs in Arkansas growing at a rate 3.2 times the state average. http://code.org/promote/ar

 

• Go to college, earn a degree, and be immediately recruited for a  J-O-B earning $74k and up http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/home.htm

 

 

Teachers-

1. How can you tie it into their curriculum standards.

2. Use algebra and geometry to develop video games.

3. Explore and develop complex scientific models.

 

Students-

1. FUN