Just a little visual reminder of the great ’10 Lessons the Arts Teach’ from Elliot Eisner. Inspirational stuff for art teachers. If you liked this poster, check out these snippets – more from the great mind of Elliot Eisner.
Collaboration between the arts and sciences has the potential to create new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial to both fields. Artists and scientists approach creativity, exploration and research in different ways and from different perspectives; when working together they...
“What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked...
Okay, so the cats are cute. I’ll let you decide whether or not this is art, because this clip brings me to another point… As a Visual Arts educator using technology in the art room, I spend a lot of time prattling on about how iPad art is a lot more than simply...
Here’s a great lesson seed… Ask students questions about the importance of art or the role of art-making in their life. The clip below inspired a variety of individual investigations in my classroom to answer the question, ‘What does art mean to me?’....
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“Do you think you’re creative?” Ask this question of a group of second-graders, and about 95 percent of them will answer “Yes.” Three years later, when the kids are in fifth grade, that proportion will drop to 50 percent—and by the time they’re seniors in high school, it’s...
Sir Ken Robinson responds to the big picture questions about education from C.M Rubin in this interesting interview that begins with this insightful quote – “To lose our culture is to lose our memory”. ” I believe that the arts should be on an equal...
