We are pleased to announce two forthcoming YASMIN discussions:
During September: What does STEAM have to do with it ?
around the current hot topic of whether we need more scientists and
engineers, or whether we need different kinds of scientists and
engineers that have grounding in the arts, design and humanities.
Invited Respondents Nettrice Gaskins, Celia Pierce and William
Joel.(details below)
During October: led by Stephen Nowlin on the "elephant-in-the-room"
topic of the "supernatural" as a concept, as it relates to science, to
pseudo-science, and to the pairing of art with science. invited
respondents to include
Andres Collazo, Director, Beckman Institute Biological Imaging Center
California Institute of Technology
Daniel Lewis, Chief Curator of Manuscripts (History of Science,
Medicine, and Technology)
Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens
oseph Klein, Distinguished Teaching ProfessorChair, Division of
Composition StudiesUniversity of North Texas College of Music..others
to be announced
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Here are the details of the What does STEAM have to do with it topic
and we welcome your comments and thoughts
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Roger Malina
Announcing a Leonardo-Yasmin Discussion: WHAT DOES STEAM HAVE TO DO WITH IT ?
Is too much STEM or the wrong STEM a bad thing ?
We are pleased to announce a Leonardo - YASMIN discussion about the
current hot topic of whether we need more scientists and engineers, or
whether we need different kinds of scientists and engineers that have
grounding in the arts, design and humanities. The discussion will be
conducted during September 2014 with a number of invited respondents.
Many professionals are arguing that government and funding agencies
need to increase funding and recruit more young people into careers in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
But after decades of STEM funding= the result is that only 17% of
engineers in the USA are women, and the statistics for inclusion of
ethnic and other minories in western countries are also dismal. It is
particularly problematical in the computer sciences and engineering,
but professionals are more diverse in the biological and life
sciences.
And in the USA 70 % of students in the USA who get a degree in a STEM
field- do not work in STEM professions - why are STEM careers so
unattractive that most students who get a degree do not go on to work
in STEM fields ?:
These statistics can be found in the recent US Census Bureau on STEM :
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/employment_occupations/cb14-130.html
In recent years there has been a movement of STEM TO STEAM- or
integrating the arts, design and humanities - into STEM teaching. I
recently wrote a discussion that highlights some of the issues:
http://leonardo.info/reviews/aug2014/malina-STEM.php
One of the arguments of STEM to STEAM is that STEM needs fundamental
rethinking- with one argument that many STEM careers are now in the
arts, design and entertainment,and more broadly the creative
industries; secondly that STEAM approaches are more succesful at
interesting more diverse students
Discussants will include:
Roger Malina, Art-Science Researcher and Executive Editor of the
Leonardo Publications at MIT Press: http://malina.diatrope.com/
Nettrice Gaskins: Who is launching a STEAM Lab in an urban art school
in Boston and led the National Science Foundation funded project on
Culturally Situated STEM
http://dm.lcc.gatech.edu/~ngaskins3/NSF_Workshop_2014/index.html
Her web site is at : http://www.nettrice.us/
Celia Pearce: who is a game designer, author, researcher, teacher,
curator and artist, specializing in multiplayer gaming and virtual
worlds, independent, art, and alternative game genres, as well as
games and gender her web site is at: http://cpandfriends.com/
William Joel: Dr. Joel received his PhD in Computer & Information
Sciences from Syracuse University in 1995. Currently he is Professor
of Computer Science at Western Connecticut State University, and
Director for their Graphics Research Group.
(http://cs.wcsu.edu/joelw/)
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