Comments on: STEM Hijacked? https://blog.inroads.acm.org/2013/01/stem-hijacked/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stem-hijacked Paving the Way Toward Excellence in Computing Education Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:41:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: Amber.Settle https://blog.inroads.acm.org/2013/01/stem-hijacked/#comment-14 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:11:49 +0000 http://inroads.acm.org/blog/?p=103#comment-14 Hi Joe,

I just ran across an article that seems to support your feeling: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/connecticut-and-texas-aim-grow-stem-enrollment-take-different-approaches It talks about increasing undergraduate participation in STEM, but when you look at the details it’s all about increasing engineering enrollments. I wanted to share.

]]> By: Catherine Lang https://blog.inroads.acm.org/2013/01/stem-hijacked/#comment-12 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:13:18 +0000 http://inroads.acm.org/blog/?p=103#comment-12 Hi Joe, I think the issue is related to the nomenclature somewhat. Here in Australia it is currently called ICT – Information and Communication Technology. It covers so much that I just bring it down to computing for conversations, but then have to say I don’t sit and code. The link into secondary schools (high schools) is further confused with multimedia being in different technology streams, and the whole tensions with being a competent user of IT packages or studying to be an ICT professional. I have spent many hours at conferences as well as on advisory boards with the discussion of what we call ourselves going round in circles. I do not have the answer, if I did I would sell it to you all and make enough to retire! Now our national curriculum board are saying IT has too many bad connotations and are floating the new name Digital Technologies… go figure!

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