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S.T.E.A.M. Power for a Better Future
Garreth HeidtHumanities Teacher
Perkiomen Valley Middle School East
Can you save the world?
What, exactly, does he do?
Who is this guy?
Why are things the way they are?
How Can I/We Make Things Better?
Thinking
Doing
Being
Why are things the way they are?
Reading
“The great herd of mankind pass their lives in listless inattention and indifference as to what is going on around them, while those who are destined to distinction have a lynx-eyed vigilance that nothing can escape.” -- American jurist William Wirt
The Berman Museum of Art Ursinus College
Design—The use of creative, artistic, and scientific thinking to solve real-world problems.
Good Design Not So Good Design
How Can I/We Make Things Better?Saving
Design = Learning by Doing
A “liberal education…aspires to nurture the growth of human talent in the service of human freedom.”
William Cronon (1998) “’Only Connect…’ The Goals of a Liberal Education”, The American Scholar, Volume 67, No. 4.
STEM to STEAM
Meh…
Whoa!
Why are things the way they are?
How Can I/We Make Them Better?
”All men and women require a liberal art of design to live well in the complexity of the framework based in signs, things, actions, and thoughts.
Richard Buchanan, “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking”
Teach&
InvolveDesign
Learning Challenge
Can you save the world?