STEAM Approach: SMS (Stories Based on Music about Scientists) on Artificial Intelligence Created by Jacob Bruce (1669–1735)

Abstract

The proposed theme of this paper is how "Arts" and "Science," with the inclusion of the topic of "Health", can be combined through a story based on research about innovation in the Past. The goal of this paper is threefold. First, to present a research-based story about Jacob Bruce (1669–1735), a scholar of Scottish descent born in Moscow, and his innovation – the prototype of Artificial Intelligence, humanoid robot. Second, to illustrate the new experimental interdisciplinary method of storytelling - SMS (Stories based on Music about Scientists), a novel approach that integrates Arts (Music, Poem, Digital images), Science (Historical Research about Innovations of the Past), and Culture (cultural heritage with metaphor of a philosophical soul development). Third, to explain how this method can be applied. SMS method created in 2012 uses the Avant-garde genre of Music with the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge, holistic approach, and implies a deeper level of integration of various disciplines. The theme of this SMS is a song-story about the beautiful humanoid girl-robot (but with a different technology of the 17th century), which serves as a prototype of the modern homunculus or AI created by Jacob Bruce. AI humanoid already resembled a natural human being by the end of the 17th century. The author explains and discusses how and why SMS can be used as an Innovative Teaching and Learning method, related to Science and Arts (similar to STEAM approach), with the power of Lifelong Learning (LLL), and pedagogical didactics across branches of sciences, thus stimulating innovations and discoveries. Keywords: Arts and Science; Innovations; STEAM/SMS (Stories based on Music about Scientists) method; Jacob Bruce (1669–1735); Innovative Teaching and Learning; Health