STEMD² is a Federal Funded learning platform that enables students to gain hands-on STEM learning and supports teachers with the goal of broadening STEM Learning!
Students
The STEMD² learning platform provides student courses to help improve student’s mathematical thinking, 21st-century learning skills, and leadership using socially and culturally relevant learning activities in real-world settings
Students can use the STEMD² platform to network and collaborate with other students, share ideas and solutions, and experience problem-solving across socially relevant subjects to complete interdisciplinary projects.
Teachers
STEMD² Teacher Professional Development Program provide training in inclusive strategies that help educators prepare for, implement, and discuss socially and culturally responsive problem-based learning.
Through our PD courses, teachers build skills and access resources that make problem-solving the focus of each activity. Teachers use social networking technologies to help students develop deep mathematics knowledge.
8TH GRADE STEMD² Books
STEMD² Research & Development Group publishes Book Series as part of Ne’epapa Ka Hana model for teaching mathematics in Hawai’i middle schools. This book series seeks to provide Hawai’i middle school teachers resources and training to incorporate problem-based learning, social learning, and inclusive pedagogy through a culturally relevant mathematics curriculum.
Teacher Professional Development Courses
Through our PD courses, teachers build skills and access resources that make problem-solving the focus of each activity. Teachers use social networking technologies to help students develop deep mathematics knowledge.
Connectivist Learning and Technology
Inclusive Mathematics Pedagogy
Problem-Based Learning
Formative Assessment
STEMD² R&D Group
Center on Disability Studies, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Management Information System, San Diego State University
Institute for Human Development, Northern Arizona University
Office: 1410 Lower Campus Rd #171F, Honolulu, HI 96826
abhari@hawaii.edu
