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Art / Sci Quotes
This is a list of quotes that link to the Art / Sci debate and although may initially seem irrelevant its useful to consider the long-standing relationship between these two disciplines and their importance of integration and value in education. 1. Study the science of art and the art of science. Leonardo Da Vinci 2. How often people…
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Technology Resources
The STEMArts competition does not require that your students’ images be created electronically, but if you want to engage your students in a project that explores exciting electronic tools we can help get you started. Electronic image creation is no longer a matter of expense and limited access. With a relatively new computer and an internet connection,…
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Art as a Way of Knowing
Art as a Way of knowing – San Francisco 3/4 March 2011 IntroductionIn 2011, the Exploratorium hosted a conference called Art as a Way of Knowing. The purpose of the conference was to gather a broad range of artists, scientists, and educators toexplore the history, practice, and value of the arts as a means of…
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Microsoft Education – Technology in the Classroom
Microsoft education offers a range of great teacher resources. Curriculum for faculty – these resources offer presentations, labs, exercises, software tools, programming tutorials, academic papers, research talks, and other reference materials for educators to engage students in Computer Science and IT . Technology in the classroom Teacher resources: Find lesson plans, free tools, training, and other information…
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In Conversation – Arthur Miller, UCL UK
Arthur Miller is emeritus professor in history and philosophy of science at University College London. His latest book is Empire of the Stars (Little Brown in UK, Houghton Mifflin in US, 2005) Creativity special: One culture issue 2523 of New Scientist magazine, 29 October 2005, page 44 What is scientific creativity?It involves the same kind of…
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Hackteria Network
The Hackteria network is a community platform hackteria tries to encourage the collaboration of scientists, hackers and artists to combine their experitise, write critical and theoretical reflections, share simple instructions to work with lifescience technologies and cooperate on the organization of workshops, festival and meetings. Hackteria is a collection of Open Source Biological Art Projects instigated in February…
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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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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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Overview on the Next Generation Science Standards
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…
