Readings & Resources
STEM + Art = STEAM
STEAM is a movement being championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and adopted all over.
Increased Test Scores Learn how a charter school in Atlanta Georgia is increasing test scores through the implementation of STEAM. Researchers seek to Incorpoate the Arts "Researchers at Brown, URI and RISD, joint recipients of a 5-year EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Grant from the National Science Foundation, believe that the sciences could benefit from a more interdisciplinary, inquiry-based model, incorporating the arts into technical education—even, and especially at the university level." 2012 Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council Mae Jemison called on adding the Arts in 2002 Listen to a TED TALK by Mae Jemison calling on teaching arts and sciences together. Jamison states, "The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” (Mae Jemison, 2002) Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinkers."
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