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Creating Steam With Design Thinking: Beyond Stem And Arts Integration, Danah Henriksen
Creating Steam With Design Thinking: Beyond Stem And Arts Integration, Danah Henriksen
The STEAM Journal
This article suggests the value in a broad view of STEAM beyond arts-integration, as well as the potential of design thinking for STEAM. Despite much interest in STEAM it is often challenging for many teachers to integrate into their teaching of school subject matter. I suggest that as an interdisciplinary crossroads, design thinking provides a natural bridge between the arts, sciences, and other subjects. In this it can offer guiding flexible structure and in-road for teachers to design STEAM-based lessons, and to incorporate as an integrated aspect of students’ STEAM learning. I discuss an example of an elementary Spanish teacher, …
A Mathematician’S Journey From Mentee To Mentor: Reflections On The Edge Program, Sarah Bryant, Alejandra Alvarado
A Mathematician’S Journey From Mentee To Mentor: Reflections On The Edge Program, Sarah Bryant, Alejandra Alvarado
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
The programs supporting diversity in mathematics are as important as ever. So why are they losing funding? And what hope do they have of thriving in the current political climate? In this collaborative interview, two past participants of EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) explore these questions; Sarah probes and narrates as Alejandra thinks out loud about the ways that the program has shaped her life and how she hopes to see the program continue.