{"id":57996,"date":"2018-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardvanhooijdonk.com\/blog\/is-stem-education-failing-the-future\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T14:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T12:34:33","slug":"is-stem-education-failing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/en\/is-stem-education-failing-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Is STEM education failing the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"bold-list\">\n<li>What\u2019s wrong with STEM education?<\/li>\n<li>We need engineers and scientists who do more than \u2018just\u2019 innovate<\/li>\n<li>STEAM is a solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist<\/li>\n<li>STEM curricula should be centered on the humanities and arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tech industry has suffered something of a black eye recently, and the last year or so has seen giant after giant lurching into scandal. Some of these are epic embarrassments, like the apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/iphone-x-racist-apple-refunds-device-cant-tell-chinese-people-apart-woman-751263\">racist algorithms<\/a> behind the iPhone X\u2019s facial recognition system. Others strike at the very heart of our faith in the legal system, like the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/04\/courts-using-ai-sentence-criminals-must-stop-now\/\">algorithm-derived injustice<\/a> in <em>Wisconsin v. Loomis<\/em>. Then there\u2019s the even more broad-reaching, like Cambridge Analytica\u2019s use of Facebook data to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jul\/11\/facebook-fined-for-data-breaches-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal\">skew election results<\/a>. Still others illustrate a level of moral paralysis that\u2019s hard to understand: just last week, Twitter was debating whether there was a technical solution to recognising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/8\/10\/17673022\/alex-jones-twitter-ban-cnn-oliver-darcy-rules\">dehumanising speech<\/a>, and whether far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had crossed that line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Is STEM education failing the future?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tnJqft_zMXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On their own, these crises are bad enough. Collectively, they\u2019re a devastating picture of society\u2019s state of ethics and technology.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s wrong with STEM education?<\/h2>\n<p>The common thread that unites these problems isn\u2019t poor engineering, programming, science, or mathematics. Instead, these failures are linked by shocking ignorance of history, ethics, society, and politics. These are subjects that are, at the best of times, at the margins of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. And it makes sense to ask whether these developments are an effect of the way we <em>mis<\/em>educate people in high-tech fields. Are we teaching tomorrow\u2019s scientists and engineers to act before they think, to put innovation before ideals? Are we teaching them to solve problems, but not ask if the solution is worse for society than what it fixes? Are we teaching them to think in terms of algorithms and maths and to ignore the human cost of these calculations?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30503\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/STEM-education-1024x683mjikmkm.jpg\" alt=\"Child and teacher building mechanical toys\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The common thread that unites these problems isn\u2019t poor engineering, programming, science, or mathematics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As much as we\u2019d like to point our fingers at them for creating a problem, we need to consider just how culpable we all are in creating a culture of education that\u2019s gotten us to where we are. We also need to ask what we might do to reinvigorate STEM with the kind of humanity that helps people as it solves problems.<\/p>\n<h2>We need engineers and scientists who do more than \u2018just\u2019 innovate<\/h2>\n<p>As Richard Lachman, an associate professor of digital media in the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/steam-not-stem-why-scientists-need-arts-training-89788\">reasons<\/a>, \u201cGraduates of science and engineering programs understandably chase positions in start-ups or high-salaried finance jobs. Their knowledge of algorithmic development, data analysis or simply structured scientific thinking may net them fantastic jobs at a variety of private-sector employers.\u201d But he notes that this high-paid work \u2013 \u201coptimizing microseconds out of their high-frequency trading algorithms, or devising routing-algorithms for drone-delivered burritos\u201d \u2013 while economically valuable, doesn\u2019t contribute meaning to the lives of millions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"What is STEAM?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f4TE4e9LkpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an important point. But he has an even sharper conclusion: when these technological questions press on issues of ethics, society, and politics \u2013 from genetic engineering, to data sharing, to algorithm-derived injustice, to questions of what constitutes dehumanising speech \u2013 we need more than scientific solutions and engineered answers.<\/p>\n<h2>STEAM is a solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist<\/h2>\n<p>Adding a capital \u2018A\u2019 to STEM is one answer. By including the arts, broadly understood, to create STEAM education, it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-whats-the-difference-between-stem-and-steam-95713\">hoped<\/a> that teachers can encourage their students to make connections between concepts and solving problems in new and exciting ways. That\u2019s a great idea, but it\u2019s really a solution to a problem that doesn\u2019t exist, the right idea driven by a broken sense of what\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not experiencing a crisis of critical problem solving, and innovation isn\u2019t at risk. Instead, the problem\u2019s a lot deeper than that, and much harder to grasp. Critical thinking isn\u2019t just a question of finding a workable answer \u2013 it involves thinking about problems, seeing them in context, and moving beyond utility. Ultimately, we need engineers, programmers, and scientists who think holistically, not more practically, who see societal trends as easily as they do technical answers. We need STEM leaders who are as conversant with Aristotle and the rise of fascism in the 20th century as they are with Python and the second law of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<h2>STEM curricula should be centered on the humanities and arts<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cStudying a humanities field involves moving beyond the search for the immediate and pragmatic; it opens one to the examination of the entirety of the human condition and encourages one to grapple with complex moral issues ever-present in life,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2017\/10\/18\/why-we-still-need-to-study-the-humanities-in-a-stem-world\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.d61213ea2894\">writes<\/a> Valerie Strauss for <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. Now, this in no sense guarantees goodness; one can have the best education imaginable and still be heartless, manipulative, and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>But as Lachman suggests, \u201cwe need our educational system to engage students with issues of ethics and responsibility in science and technology. We should treat required arts and humanities courses not as some vague attempt to \u2018broaden minds\u2019 but rather as a necessary discussion of morals, values, ethics and responsibility\u201d. That means a lot more than adding a letter to a tired acronym, and it involves a complete change in what it means to educate tomorrow\u2019s technical minds.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this change isn\u2019t to improve problem solving. It\u2019s to nurture a generation of scientists and engineers who can look at a room full of white, male faces and realise \u2013 without being told \u2013 that programming a facial recognition system to differentiate people using that skewed sample of humanity is a bad idea. It\u2019s to teach the future that black-box algorithms, whose workings are invisible to anyone but the programmer, are an awful idea in the courtroom. It\u2019s to ensure that our children think more carefully about compromising democratic elections, enabling hate speech, and supporting prejudice, asking \u201cWhy?\u201d and \u201cTo what end?\u201d and \u201cWith what social cost?\u201d rather than merely \u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/en\/keynote\/the-future-of-education\/\">future<\/a> we all want, and it\u2019s time to take education reform seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s wrong with STEM education? 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