2025年1月23日 · Teaching creativity seems to be what we’re doing in art education, but if you just tell them, “use anything you want to make anything you like.” The overwhelming choices can be paralyzing for students when they face too many options without adequate structure, guidance, or a clear purpose.

2024年11月17日 · I continue to explore ethical uses of AI for the art educator. I wanted to see if AI might be able to generate drawing ideas that could be used in the classroom and perhaps expanded into an actual lesson. Though 80% of what I got was “bla” or even garbage, I found 20% of it was actually helpful.

2025年2月10日 · One thing I found interesting is that though some of my student’s artwork certainly “shined” technically, there were always some that struggled with art techniques but had very good concepts for jokes. This helped illustrate the real-world situation of partner illustrators.

2025年3月19日 · Integrating visual arts into lessons helps make complex subjects more accessible and engaging, fostering deeper understanding. According to Efland’s Art and Cognition, art education encourages innovative teaching strategies and boosts students’ critical thinking skills (Efland, 2002). Arts-based teaching methods have been shown to improve ...

2024年10月26日 · Introductions should make connections to historical or contemporary art, and perhaps links to core content when possible. This is a good time for notes as a first check in. They might be pre-written notes with gaps for students to fill …

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I try to give my students a broad exposure to different media and as autumn hits our area of the country the foliage reminded me that nature offers a lot of possibilities. We have explored the art of Andrew Goldsworthy in the past, but I wanted to try something different.

Overwhelmed by the many benefits that Art provide in such a well rounded way, from the physiological benefits of art, the reduction of high school dropouts for art students, to the increase in college graduation rates for those exposed to the Arts.

2024年10月26日 · Though I can find brushes, tools, paints, pens and more, I often use the search term “white” to find canvas hats, gloves, shoes, etc that students can personalize as a special art project. For these projects I have students brainstorm their interests…

2017年12月17日 · To put this project into historical perspective, I showed students a video on Pop Art. We wrote a few facts about each artist, and then had a discussion. "Which artist's work was most similar to our project?"