When STEM Becomes STEAM We All Benefit: Breaking out of our professional silos
summary
Argues for replacing STEM with STEAM and shows concrete experiments: teaching non-programmers to use the Trove API with Excel via step‑by‑step documentation, learning Python to scrape and analyze corpora, and probing word meanings in a corpus of pre‑Victorian women writers to reveal shifting senses of “respect.” Demonstrates visual and sound projects including BigGAN‑generated art and an audio‑visual swamp soundscape, and reports that clear docs plus local meetups actually increase newcomer retention.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:24Professional silos
- 5:24What is art
- 8:00The clip model
- 13:33Diversity of thought
- 16:45Desirable communities
- 19:43Basic elements of a great community
- 21:50Organizations and communities
- 23:03Making communities great
- 25:12Micro communities
- 29:32Conclusion
- 33:17Questions
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