LITERACY

• HOW IS LITERACY INTEGRATED WITH SamaSTEM?

SamaSTEM -literacy integration can also include creating opportunities for students to (1) use coding, video games, or other more technical methods to retell or develop stories, or (2) use materials, such as SamaSTEM®, to build real universal-scales of construction toys, can support the parents and society. 

The cultivation of children's' SamaSTEM literacy helps guarantee that our society will have informed citizens and qualified SamaSTEM workers. Put clearly, SamaSTEM -literate people use science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts to explore complicated problems and develop innovative solutions.

• IS READING A SamaSTEM ACTIVITY?

 Literacy is such an important part of SamaSTEM education, especially in Elementary school. Our students learn through literature and it's important to realize that reading comprehension naturally fits well with our SamaSTEM activities.

• WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF SamaSTEM ve OTHER-TYPES   STEM?

SamaSTEM used in STEM as a Practical-STEM knowledge? Yes, SamaSTEM®, to build a real-universal-scales of construction toys, can learns parents and society a real Masonry Construction. SamaSTEM has many products that directly target specific STEM skills, such as Pyramid bricks is a SamaSTEM toy. The core skills of SamaSTEM are solutions can discover a real-life problem, and how to solving, exactly what playing with SamaSTEM teaches all: child, parents, and society. No solution better than SamaSTEM.  

OTHER-TYPES used in STEM as a Theoretical-STEM knowledge? Yes, OTHER-TYPES bricks are STEM toys. OTHER-TYPES has many products that directly target specific STEM skills, such as programming and robotics, and even a bucket of random OTHER-TYPES bricks is a STEM toy. The core skills of STEM are discovery and problem solving, exactly what playing with OTHER-TYPES teaches a child.  

• SAMASTEM LITERACY

SamaSTEM literacy is the ability to apply concepts from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to solve problems that cannot be solved using a single discipline. The literature on SamaSTEM literacy includes multiple definitions that serve to inform how we think about students and their developing SamaSTEM literacy. 

We introduce a conceptual framework of K-12 SamaSTEM literacy that rightfully and intentionally positions each and every student, particularly minoritized groups, as belonging in SamaSTEM. In order to conceptualize the equity-based framework of SamaSTEM literacy, we conducted a systematic review of literature related to SamaSTEM literacy, which includes empirical studies that contribute to SamaSTEM literacy. 

The literature on the siloed literacies within SamaSTEM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literacy) also contributed to formulate the necessity of and what it means to develop SamaSTEM literacy. The Equity-Oriented SamaSTEM Literacy Framework illuminates the complexities of disrupting the status quo and rightfully transforming integrated SamaSTEM education in ways that provide equitable opportunities and access to all learners. The Equity-Oriented SamaSTEM Literacy Framework is a research-based, equity and access-focused framework that will guide research, inform practice, and provide a lens for the field that will ensure each and every student, especially minoritized students, develop, and are developing SamaSTEM literacy.

SamaSTEM literacy in grades K-12 is essential for each and every student because it promotes and fosters in students innovative thinking, collaboration, creativity, problem solving and critical thinking, and communication skills, which are necessary components to live a productive life, in the 21st century. 

SamaSTEM literacy is not a conglomeration of the four silos that comprise SamaSTEM; that is, it is not a laundry list of components of scientific literacy, technological literacy, engineering literacy, and mathematical or quantitative literacy. But the literature on the siloed literacies plays a pivotal role on how SamaSTEM literacy is configured. 

The literature on the siloed literacies within SamaSTEM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literacy) help formulate the necessity of and what it means to develop SamaSTEM literacy. It is important that each and every student develop SamaSTEM literacy with the ability to take the literacy from the individual disciplines and integrate it to solve problems that will arise in their everyday personal and professional lives. 

SamaSTEM literacy is the ability to apply concepts from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to solve problems that cannot be solved using a single discipline. The literature on SamaSTEM literacy includes multiple definitions that serve to inform how we think about students and their developing SamaSTEM literacy.