Empowering Teacher Librarians to Support STEM Education: Preliminary Findings

Abstract

STEM education is grounded in problem solving, discovery, and exploratory learning, which requires students to actively engage in a situation in order to find its solution (Young, 2013). Students engage in STEM learning in many different ways, with technology and media playing an important role. Students need exposure to current and emerging technologies appropriate for STEM learning, but also instruction on how to interact with and utilize digital tools to solve problems and improve learning (Subramaniam & Edwards, 2014; Subramaniam et al., 2013).