Today were the class presentations. These were extremely interesting as I got a chance to see what the Arts and Culture means to others in the class and the specific areas that they were focussing on. These ranged from art with children with special needs, art in the early years or, our topic, STEAM.
Our group discussed a variety of areas within STEAM, but my specific area was STEM to STEAM. I discussed the distribution and numbers of STEAM educators there are in the world, using an interactive map.
I also showed a section of a video about a school who are very much applying arts into their STEM work and how both the students and the teachers feel about it.
I had also drawn on my own experiences and feelings towards integrating arts into science, technology, engineering and maths as it is the way I always learned better as a child, and still do today.
In my section of the presentation, I really tried to keep it visual and engaging for the audience and not just have words on a PowerPoint, as it does not give them a feel of my topic. I tried to keep it as open and active as possible, and I feel I gave it a good go.
A presentation which particularly caught my attention was one that spoke of art in the early years, and she linked the whole project to her infant son. This use of real-life examples gave us a clear idea of her points and her topic.
Below are the sourced that I used in my presentations:
Dowker, A., Bennett, K., Smith, L. and Hindawi (2012), Child Development Research (Accessed: 14 February 2017).
raiseyourhandtexas (2016) Academy high school and the ‘art’ of STEAM. Available at: https://youtu.be/AwTl2wvmd2g (Accessed: 14 February 2017).
Government, S., House, S.A., Road, R. and ceu (2016) Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC). Available at: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/People/Young-People/gettingitright (Accessed: 14 February 2017).
Harris, A (2016) Creativity and Education. Edited by Anne Harris. Melbourne, Australia: Palgarve Macmillan.
Scotland, E. (2013) Creativity Across Learning 3-18. Available at: https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/Creativity/CRE2_UnlockYourCreativity/Creativity3to18.pdf (Accessed: 15 February 2017).
Craft, A. (2000) Creativity across the primary curriculum: Framing and developing practice. London: Routledge Falmer.
Cochrane, P. and Cockett, M. (2007) Building a Creative School- a dynamic approach to school development. London, United Kingdom: Tetham Books.
