With this new movement in education to focus more on STEM, educators are questioning what is
STEM and how exactly to teach STEM. Jonathan Gerlach, an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator who works
on federal education policy in Washington, D.C., asked several questions pertinent to the focus of this study in a
report for the National Science Teachers Association news digest in 2012. Gerlach asked whether science alone or
mathematics by itself can be considered STEM education; whether using technology is sufficient in covering
the ‘T’ in STEM (2012). He also pointed out that asking a number of teachers to define STEM will likely bring
about many different answers.