High Tech Humanities
Teaching the Arts through Technology
“It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.”
― Damon Horowitz
Kymberli Bryant is a former high school English teacher and current theater, technology and Computer Science teacher in rural Maine. She currently works as a CS Principals Facilitator for Code.org in the state of Maine. In the spring of 2015 she was chosen as a PBS LEAD Digital LearningMedia Innovator. She works to provide students with
authentic learning through
technology that creates
better writers, thinkers and
problem solvers while
developing an appreciation
of the arts and humanities.
This website is an attempt to meld my love for both the humanities and technology and to show that the two are harmonious when it comes to education. While the push for STEM education is growing, it is important to understand that while we want to cultivate 21st Century learners, we need to create 21st Century thinkers, writers, artists, performers and problem solvers who can use their skills to create the solutions to current and future challenges.
Ms. Bryant's Classroom
Pages
A page for my students to find important information about class. Links to Edmodo and important content.
Technology for Teachers
Technology for Teachers
This is a resource for information and tutorials for some of my favorite classroom tools.
This is a resource for information and tutorials for some of my favorite classroom tools.
Ms. Bryant's
Tech Reflect Blog
This is my blog for using technology in the classroom.
The Role of Humanties in STEM education
This page is constantly changing and will feature information on the importance of humanities in technology and STEM fields.
In The News
Oh, The Humanities! Why STEM shouldn't take Precedence over the Arts
As much trouble as the education industry is in, every state continues to witness the dissolving of the very funds intended to help it. Major cuts in education have been directed toward the arts and humanities where millions of students are being deprived of these subjects and outlets.
We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.
In business and at every level of government, we hear how important it is to graduate more students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math, as our nation’s competitiveness depends on it.
The goal should be that everybody gets a chance to read great books and participate in the richness that humanities brings us. –
— Bill Gates (founder and Chairman, Microsoft)
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Quotes
The academic atmosphere, produced mainly by the humanities, is the only atmosphere in which pure science can flourish.
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The value of an education in a liberal arts college is the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
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–E.W.R. Steacie (Canadian physical chemist)
A broad education in the arts helps give children a better understanding of their world…We need students who are culturally literate as well as math and science literate.
-Albert Einstein
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–Paul Ostergard, Vice President, Citicorp