San Diego Conference  June 14-15, 2011
 
Presentations and Reports

Over the next few weeks we will be sharing keynote presentations and reports from the working groups of the San Diego conference. Please stay tuned!

Larry Rosenstock - DUALITY 
Larry Rosenstock is one of the most innovative educators in the public school today.  As founder and CEO of High Tech High, he continues to experiment with strategies that engage students with science, math, art, design, and world-changing ideas. Quoting John Dewey “There is no such thing as genuine understanding without doing,”  Larry asserts that a technical and arts-based education provides an integrated context for learning that is supported by research in the cognitive sciences. View Report.
                                                                                                                   A student at High Tech High produced this video on the relationship between math and language ...

Harvey White - STEM to STEAM:  The Future of American Innovation

Harvey White is a businessman, philanthropist and enterpreneur.  Co-founder of QualComm, he is passonate about the need to improve the competitivess of the U.S. in terms of innovation.  View Report

Harvey White and John Eger in San Diego

Harvey was interviewed by John Eger, The Lionel Van Deerlin Endowed Professor of Communications and Public Policy, SDSU.
Randy Cohen & Robert Root-Bernstein - CREATIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE

Randy Cohen is Vice President for Policy and Research, Americans for the Arts. Robert Root-Bernstein is Professor of Physiology at Michigan State University and co-author of Sparks of Genius. They discussed the correlation between arts training, arts skills and experience on the one hand, and success in science on the other, as measured by a wide variety of studies related to school performance, professional stature, and outstanding achievements.  View Report.

Click on the image above to see Randy Cohen's presentation

Click on the image above to see Robert Root Bernstein's presentation

 

Carrie Fitzsimmons- How Education at the Nexus of Science and Art can Change the World

Carrie Fitzsimmons is the Founder of the ArtScience Prize. Here she discusses what that involves and how that competition spurs unique curricular components.  View Report.

 

 

Click on the image to see Carrie Fitzsimmon's presentation from San Diego ...

James Catterall - Art for Science's Sake, Science for Art's Sake

Dr. Catterall is Professor of Urban Schooling at UCLA Graduate School of Education.  He presented in the Educational Practice workign group session.

             
Todd Siler's Metaphorming Workshop

In our culminating Metaphorming Workshop, we once again explored the focal question: "create a symbolic model that shows how you think the arts can be integrated into science education to spark a creative and innovative STEM workforce."  It was a beautiful day outside under the tents at CALIT2.

For more on Dr. Siler's methods see his article, "Metaphorming and the Art of Science Learning."

... physical representations can lead to a deeper analysis of metaphorical relationships, which could lead to real-world solutions to intractable problems


The creativity that came out of collaborations with diverse participants was awesome

The in-depth look at several examples was enlightening

 

This group was scientists and artists and educators and each had very unique ways of approching the problem

This concept is very congruent with my experience of creative writing, in which a sure footed unconscious sometimes supplies new words, new metaphors to describe and understand the world

Click on the image above to see Metaphorming at work in San Diego