I feel as though that my annotations have  progressed over time. I have gotten better on catching the big ideas, but there is still room to improve like always.

 

Yo-Yo Ma is a Cellist and songwriter. He has won many Grammys and is overall a man of high prestige.  He published his essay in January 2014 to the  World Post.  Yo-Yo Ma is a graduate from Julliard school and Harvard. This essay is Ma’s new idea if the STEAM method versus STEM.

I agree with Yo-Yo Ma and I do believe that the arts are just as important as science in our technologically advanced society. Empathetic thinking can benefit you in many ways relating to creativity and how it can help you solve problems. I am reading this text to generate thought about this topic and use information from this article to develop a separate argument.

Yo-Yo Ma argues that empathetical and critical thinking should be used in our society and would benefit us if we were proficient in both. Today we use STEM which focuses on the more literal topics of our life and the arts aren’t necessarily  required. STEAM could be a better mix of different topics and would improve our thinking abilities.

 

Globalization: developing international influence

Humanist: an advocate for humans

Societal: relating to society