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Steven Ross Pomeroy -Science and Art go Hand in Hand
In a post for Scientific American, Aug 2012 Steve R. Pomeroy considers the importance of the arts for imagination and the necessity of their inclusion in the educational system with science to insure innovation. STEM to STEAM Science and Art go hand in hand here.
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Next Generation Science Standards
Next Generation is dedicated to developing new K12 science standards for schools in the United States Through a collaborative state-led process with the following partners American National Research Council, The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), and Achieve, a nonprofit education reform organization. Science—and therefore science education—is…
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Wiki guide to Hackathons
This wiki outlines the rising phenomena of the Hackathon – ( Hacking and Marathon). Once the preserve of computer geeks / hackers more and more attendance is becoming more diverse as people’s insatiable desire to fix, adapt, modify is made more accessible with the open source movement and peer 2 peer learning. Such hackathons can bring the…
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USA’s Science education initiative excludes the arts
‘Can the U.S.’s Science Education Initiative Succeed Without the Arts? A Growing Chorus Says No’ (Blouin Artinfo Aug 2012) Thomas Eakins article, discusses the STEM agenda and the need for engagement with the arts, furthering the STEAM debate. The article provides useful links to current issues in the STEM / STEAM debate including cuts and scientists…
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Mirrorbox: The Story of How Art Became Science
American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) Modeling Instruction has been under development since 1990 guided by David Hestenes (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Arizona State University). The method aims to address many of the limitations of more traditional methods e.g. lecture-demonstration method, the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. The…
