Great post about Putting the Art in STEAM from Stephanie Johnsons blog, youngscientistsattcs.blogspot/. As the New York Times article she references says, Engineering and art were not always completely separate disciplines. Take Leonardo da Vinci, who seamlessly combined the two. Or consider students at The Country School! In her blog, Mrs. Johnson talks about the STEM to STEAM conference she and her colleague, TCS STEAM Coordinator Stephanie Smelser, attended at RISD and how it validates their work in STEAM at The Country School. And then theres this from the article in The New York Times: The Rhode Island School of Design thinks so much of the need to collaborate that it is spearheading a national initiative to incorporate art and design in STEM education — what it calls STEM to STEAM (as in science, technology, engineering, art and math). Art education, they argue, teaches the kind of risk-taking and creative problem-solving that can be applied to, say, health care and climate change. Come see STEAM in action at our Open House this Sunday, 1-3:30 p.m. Learn more at: info.thecountryschool.org/learn-what-makes-the-country-school-so-unique
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 11:25:43 +0000