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Sara Kapadia
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA
Great, thanks for sharing... I have a dynamic relationship with
acronyms in that I feel that they never really encapsulate the true
meaning of what they attempt to represent... however I understand
human beings like the shorthand strategies acronyms offer... but as a
visual learner I find myself sometimes frustrated with acronyms and
otehr times drawn to them!
Sara
i must admit that I agree with you- the acronyms STEM and STEAM are
not very helpful-they are mostly institutionally
defined for the use of institutions, funding agencies- when a young
person is making their way in the world their
curiosity and motivation is not really helped by framing these issues
via acronyms
a deeper question is how we think knowledge and ways of knowing are
connected together-
in the traditional 'tree of knowledge' metaphor we think of knowledge
being structured in
branches, and not strongly interconnected
so STEM -science, technology, engineering, math is within a branch
that is in the scientific way of
knowing
but the arts are in a different branch
and often we organise our institutions reflecting this way of thinking
however if we think of knowledge as a networked system the arts and sciences
are different hubs in this network, but there are many live and
important inter connections
we all know that creativity and innovation draw on multiple ways of knowing
and some arts are very close to certain areas of engineering = so clearly
interactive arts and video or computer games draw a great deal on
the computer sciences = so artists in art and technology generally have
many interconnections with mathematics, and computer science
david goldberg has talked a lot about this-see instance
http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/dml-networked-studio
and this lead to the development of the HASTAC
http://www.hastac.org/
which describes itself as a Humanitise, Arts, Science and
Technology Alliance Collaboratory
so some of the stem to steam discussion is about making these interconnections
more visible to young people
roger malina
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