Over 250 teachers from across the state are learning how they can better incorporate the arts and S.T.E.A.M. education into their classrooms.

"Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math collide to create amazing experiences in the classroom," says Craig Rosen with the Desert Research Institute.

Educators say incorporating S.T.E.A.M. education into our classrooms will help students to think and process information in different ways.

"Arts education is just as important as science technology, engineering, and math. They all intersect, we can't have the scientist that we have without the creative minds behind them," says Rosen.

Through discussions and hands on learning, educators were able to see exactly how they can incorporate technology and the arts into their classrooms.

"All of them are working on standards based hands on workshops, that really highlights the ways that we can use technology and art at the same time. To form these inner disciplinary activities to help kids think really differently about how to use their natural creativity," says Charles N. Mathewson Senior Vice President of Education, Marisa Cooper.

Saturday's conference really focused on how teachers can bring more technology into their classrooms as well. Such as computers, artificial intelligence, LED lights, and more. 

That may seem strange to some of us, but educators say this is how students today are learning.

I spoke with Pilar Biller who is an art teacher at Damonte Ranch to find out why she felt like it was important to come today.

"Arts education is really important to promote critical thinking, divergent thinking, so that our students really have the opportunity to use those skills and then transfer them into other areas," says Biller.

For more information about this annual conference, click on the link below:

https://www.nevadaart.org/nvsteam/info/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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