Tangi said goodbye in July 2021. It was a wonderful creative app and it gave me a gift for life.I started painting and drawing because of Tangi. It was like a window opened in my soul.
When you keep all the doors and windows closed and the air conditioner is on, you are comfortable. But when you go out in the fresh air you know it’s different. You breathe better, you feel better and you glow.
So what exactly is STEAM education?
STEAM is integrative learning using Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics to helps students learn.In STEM, the A was missing.That’s the glow education misses, when we seperate learning into rigid lines.
A friend Leha on Instagram today talked about the art of living . How creative life is our way of living beautifully. Art feeds the soul. Today I am a CANVA champion. It wouldn’t have been possible if Tangi and the friends on Tangi didn’t give me this confidence.
My creative life is dedicated to my daughter and all my Tangi friends who taught me how to create art and live life with art in it.
As a doctor, I had no inkling of any artistic inclination after fourth grade. Even now I suffer from imposter syndrome every time I write, publish or paint . But I keep doing it anyway.
If I want my daughter to live a life full of science and arts and not pick and choose, maybe I could walk the path before her. That’s the best part about STEAM education. It talks about incorporating Arts in education.
Arts are visual and very intuitive. While words are more learned. If there’s a way to have less competition between learning in these two media, the world would open up.
Encouraging curiosity and learning means accepting there are different ways to learn. Ancient texts show a lot of graphics in their language. It was visual and unlike what we write today. So what changed?
Why were arts and science made to feel like they were opposite sides of the coin when they together make up learning?
Have you ever thought about this?
As an artist, I am inclined to education that includes the ART along with the important STEM curriculums. And I love your question about how arts and science became seen as opposites instead of part of a whole for most powerful learning.
Although I am a fan of the arts (on canvass and music), I still rely more on the single vowel version- STEM.
I think we need more art in our children’s curriculum, to go along with STEM. Great article!
As a scientist and physician myself, I find myself wrestling with the same issues. I don’t consider myself very arty but I have always wanted to be a writer. I took one art class in school to meet a requirement but there was no more space for it in my schedule. I am trying to alllow some artitistic parts in for my daughter (my son doesn’t care!) LOL