Living Sky Arts Education Teacher Leaders

 

Technology and the Arts

 

  Click here to view/revise Art:Technology Collaborations - the project planning page (started on Feb. 5/08)

 

              

Teacher Leaders experiment with new equipment: lap top computers, web cams and headsets.

 

  

 

Some ways to embed technology into projects:

 

 

 

 

 

Learning in the 21st Century - Creative and Critical Thinking

 

 This is a great summary of the concept of the student as a 21st century learner, click to read the blog Students 2.0 written by Anthony Chivetta: 

"Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers. Today’s world is no longer content with students who can simply apply the knowledge they learned in school: our generation will be asked to think and operate in ways that traditional education has not, and can not, prepare us for."

 

"Perhaps most importantly in today's information age, thinking skills are viewed as crucial for educated persons to cope with a rapidly changing world. Many educators believe that specific knowledge will not be as important to tomorrow's workers and citizens as the ability to learn and make sense of new information."

—D. Gough, 1991

 

This is an excellent site about Creative and Critical thinking skills and has an extensive set of links to other sites.

 

Teaching Thinking Skills defines the terms and provides the context for this study.

 

Feb 5/08 Agenda:

  1. Pre-meeting 9am: photos, headsets, cameras, trouble shoot, look at resources
  2. 9:30am  Discussion about Critical and Creative Thinking: how does this look in our classrooms?
  3. Ways to share our work - division, provincial, national
  4. Technology as a tool - looking at Open Source examples
  5. Voice Thread sample as a collaborative tool
  6. Exploring and playing
  7. Planning and preparing
  8. Share our plans with the group, feedback
  9. How will we evaluate ourselves?

 Check this out: Minds on Fire: Open Education

"....instead of starting from the Cartesian premise of “I think, therefore I am,” and from the assumption that knowledge is something that is transferred to the student via various pedagogical strategies, the social view of learning says, “We participate, therefore we are.”

 

 Here is a short video about Photo Sharing on the web:

 


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