Why STEM Should Become STEAM
Objectives
- To analyse why STEM should become STEAM.
- To consider how skills from the arts can be used as scientific tools.
- To discuss how the arts are basic to the Human Experience.
- To highlight reasons why STEM Learning needs the arts.
Key Concepts
STEAM Education
Multidisciplinary Learning
Cross-curricular Problem Solving
Module overview
We’ve learnt more about the human brain in the last ten years than we have in all the previous centuries combined. Everything we are now discovering from neuroscience is telling us that if we wish to develop innovative and creative students we have got to use strategies from the Arts in the teaching of the Sciences.
This module serves as an introduction to STEAM education and focuses on how integrating the arts into the STEM areas gives teachers new outlooks and the capacity to provide students with the skills they need to be more successful in learning and applying STEM content.
Details
Skills
Digital Literacy 
Futures Thinking
Creativity & Imagination 
Big Picture Thinking 
Risk-taking & Adaptability
Moonshot Thinking
Cross Curricular programs and links
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