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Learn MoreWe need to add an “A” for art to the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education agenda and turn it to STEAM, writes guest columnist John Maeda.
John Maeda is president of Rhode Island School of Design and the author of “The Laws of Simplicity and Redesigning Leadership,” which expands on his Twitter feed at @johnmaeda
By John Maeda
Special to The Seattle Times
I tell people that I am a native of Seattle, but that I only knew it before it became cool. The creative economy hadn’t really happened yet — Boeing was the booming Microsoft equivalent back then; there was nascent grunge music and no coffee culture to speak of.
But amid the rain, and the fog, and the rain, and the rain, Seattle was home to the beginning of my journey traversing the fields of technology, art and design.
Eighteen years later on my journey, my foremost conclusion is that there is great power in these fields taken separately, and even more when they are put together. It’s why I believe we need to add an “A” for art to the national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education agenda — to turn it to STEAM. Read more →
Art matters with many districts reinventing art education to fit Common Core standards curriculum .
Here is a guest article on what the LAUSD is doing to promote the arts
By Robin Kemker On January 16, 2013 @ 8:46 pm In West
Speakers, flanked by posters of successful L.A. talent, visit briefly as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa begins to speak. Featured talents included celebrities Tom Cruise, George Lucas, John Legend, James Cameron, Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, and Kathleen Kennedy, as well as education professionals Veronica Marquez and Monica Garcia. (Robin Kemker/The Epoch Times)
As the 2008 financial crash took its toll throughout the world from London to New York to Los Angeles schools started trimming their art budgets. The arts was hit more heavily than the nationally regulated mandatory core subjects, which have minimum scholastic performance criteria.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second largest public school system in the United States with some 700,000 students. In early 2012, “art for the sake of art” became no longer affordable, and the LAUSD Board of Education proposed that its elementary arts budget be reduced to zero. Since 2008, the board has reduced the overall district art budget by $3 billion.
Watch How Smart Can We Get? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.
This is a great series about what it means to be smart. What were the circumstances that grew Einstein’s brain?
Nurture creates nature vs. nature creates nurture. The hypothesis is that playing a musical instrument (the Violin in Einstein’s Case) helps to access intuition.
How creativity and creative thought manifests ways of conceptualizations that can be attributed to problem solving. The actual act of creating art and focus on problem solving allows people to enter the “Zone”
Thus allowing for processes to appear, emerge to the top and to access other intelligences and perhaps intuition itself. Musicians that learn to play an Instrument as a young person developed “bumps” on the brain that may increase intuitive thought.
Growing the brain is important and to keep it in shape mandatory.
