/sci/ - Science & Math

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46019429
A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching or sewing up patients.

Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College, London, says young people have so little experience of craft skills that they struggle with anything practical.

"It is important and an increasingly urgent issue," says Prof Kneebone, who warns medical students might have high academics but cannot cut or sew.

"It is a concern of mine and my scientific colleagues that whereas in the past you could make the assumption that students would leave school able to do certain practical things - cutting things out, making things - that is no longer the case," says Prof Kneebone.

Prof Kneebone will be speaking on Tuesday at the V&A Museum of Childhood in east London, at the launch of a report, published by the Edge Foundation, calling for more creativity in the curriculum.

Alice Barnard, chief executive of the Edge education charity, says: "The government pays lip service by saying creative subjects are important, but its policies demonstrate otherwise."

She says the way school performance is measured tends to push schools to focus on core academic subjects, to the detriment of arts and creative subjects.

Without the letter A, STEM cant generate STEAM can it? Art is the fuel.

i mean lots of scientists are artistic in some form

einstein played the violin as a hobby
tesla fell in love with a bird so thats art right there

no my point is that you stem fags are so robotic in your thinking that a little bit of irrationality and imagination could cure your "autism". < pay attention to those quote markers

>Brainlets will defend this

hi guys please include art please PLEEEEEEEEEASE

http://stemtosteam.org/

We must influence employers to hire artists and designers to drive innovation.

COME ON /sci/! I paint in mspaint so that automatically makes a scientist because i'm creative. Do my fellow scientists agree?

LONG LIVE STEAM!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEAM_fields
>STEAM fields is an acronym for the fields of study in the categories of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. The initiative began to include arts and design in STEM fields education.

>STEM programs are designed to integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the classroom. These programs aim to teach students to think critically and have an engineering or design approach towards real-world problems while building on their math and science base.[1] STEAM programs add art to STEM curriculum by drawing on design principles and encouraging creative solutions.[1]

Where were you when you realized the endtimes were upon us?