Re-appropriating, Remixing & Improvising with STEAM
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This document discusses culturally responsive education in makerspaces. It explains that STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) teaching integrates multiple disciplines. Components of equity in makerspaces are access, diversity, and inclusion. The document then discusses underrepresented groups in STEM and strategies for making makerspaces more culturally responsive, such as re-appropriation, remixing, and improvisation. Specific examples are provided like using lowrider culture in robotics or MIDI controllers in music. The goal is to design culturally situated learning experiences and curriculum.
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Re-appropriating, Remixing & Improvising with STEAM
- 1. Recontextualizing the Makerspace: Culturally Responsive Education Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins
- 2. Documenting & observing the environment or phenomena. Applying science for practical purposes. Designing, building, using engines, machines, and structures. Expressing or applying human creative skill and imagination. Studying numbers, quantities, shapes and the relations between them. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) means teaching and learning using more than one modality
- 4. Components of Equity in Making Access = Who has the keys? Diversity = Who is in the room? Inclusion = Who feels welcome?
- 5. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in STEM
- 6. Access The state with the most makerspaces is California.
- 7. Diversity Courtesy of Leah Buechley
- 9. Culturally Responsive Practices • Re-appropriation refers to the reclaiming or reuse of different styles, objects, or symbols from mass culture • Remixing involves the activity of taking parts of pre-existing materials to combine them with others, into new forms • Improvisation is about doing something without pre-planning
- 11. Remixing Ruka (to braid/to knit/to weave) Culturally Situated Design Tool
- 13. Cultural Practices & Learning Categories Lowriders/Robotics MIDI Controllers Ruka (to braid/to knit/ to weave)
- 15. The STEAM Lab is a place for students to play, think, and create across disciplinary boundaries while keeping art central to learning. Boston Arts Academy STEAM Lab Hank Shocklee
- 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEGpZ8hStg Bringing It All Together Freestyle Cipher
- 17. Local & National: The PASEO Sound Glove
- 19. STEAM Planning
- 21. What’s Next Internet of Things Motion Sensing Robotics Coding Creative Expression
- 22. Information Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins nettrice@gmail.com Boston Arts Academy STEAM Lab http://baa-steam.tumblr.com Making for All: How to Build an Inclusive Makerspace: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-05-10-making-for-all-how-to-build-an- inclusive-makerspace How Art and Dance Are Making Computer Science Culturally Relevant: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-07-26-how-art-and-science-are-making- computer-science-culturally-relevant Moilanen, J. (2012). “Emerging Hackerspaces — Peer-Production Generation.” In I. Hammouda, B. Lundell, T. Mikkonen & W. Scacchi (Eds.), Open Source Systems: Long-Term Sustainability (pp. 94-111). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Editor's Notes
- The BAA STEAM Lab is part makerspace, part artist studio and part science/engineering lab. Tools such as 3D printers, desktop machine tools, and tools for digital design are becoming more powerful, less expensive, easier to use, and more widely available through shared spaces. These areas are empowering tinkerers, entrepreneurs, and companies to transform an idea from a drawing to a working prototype faster than ever before.
- The components of equity are “access,” “diversity,” and “inclusion.”
- White men constitute about one-half of the S&E workforce. In all racial and ethnic groups, more men than women work in S&E occupations. Together, Asian and underrepresented minority women represent about 1 in 10 persons employed in S&E occupations.
- Makerspaces, FabLabs, or innovation labs act as communal workshops where makers can share ideas and tools. They can pop up in schools, libraries, and community centers.
- Despite an explicit commitment to diversity, makerspaces have struggled to serve a diverse population of creators and have become heavily dominated by men, especially white men, and the highly educated and wealthy (Moilanen, 2012).
- Leah Buechley, a former MIT associate professor and inventor of a wide range of “maker” technologies, has called for a move beyond robots and competitions to include a wider range of tools, traditions, and people.
- TVC describes a capacity to contextualize or place something in a new or different context, synthesize or see relationships between seemingly unrelated fields, and syncretize or invent something new by combining elements nobody else thought to put together.
- BAA’s STEAM lab pilots emerging STEAM-inspired curricula and teaching, and shares its findings with the broader educational community while providing students access to resources, tools, and guidance to experiment with STEAM ideas and practices.