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?