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Lia Woo and Page McMullen

Value Propositi

on• Need

• Approach

• Benefits

• Competition

NEED:Why art?

• “The arts offer a way of thinking unavailable in other disciplines.” (Harvard Project Zero 2001)

• Art was deemed one of the core subjects to be taught in schools. (GOALS 2000: Educate America Act)

• Art can supplement, if not surpass, the spoken word as a medium of communication. (International Child Art Foundation 2001)

NEED:Absence of

Art• Importance of art is marginalized in

education.– “None of the arts standards was rated as ‘necessary’

or ‘probably necessary’ to learn prior to high school graduation.” (Chapman 2000)

– Viewed as an extracurricular activity (Davis 1999)

• Teachers are not trained to teach art.

• Funding for art education is lacking.

APPROACH

ARTiFACT is a web-based, art education program designed for self-study or within a group. It consists of three parts:

• Concepts - introduction to art and relevant subject concepts

• Hands-on - activity to experience concepts

• Share and Reflect – an opportunity to share self-expression and reflect on the experience

APPROACH

• Integration of arts into the everyday curriculum

• Exploration of arts through an interactive, cross-curricular process

• Representation of experts’ creative, expressive process

• Construction of knowledge

• Collaboration of students to incorporate multiple perspectives on one concept

• Reflection on learning

BENEFITS

• Access & Ease – Allow teachers and students greater access to art education experiences in an easy to use fashion

• Sharing - Allow children to share their own understanding of a concept with other students and respond to others

• Learning through experience - Allow children to develop their own examples to reflect their understanding of a concept

COMPETITION

• Eduweb – Provides ideas for hands-on activities, lesson plans, biographies, art glossary, and games

• Arts EdNet – Offers lesson plans, curriculum ideas, a guide to teaching and learning art, assessment strategies, online talk community, and virtual galleries

• ArtsEdge – Presents creative and appropriate ways to use technology as a tool for teaching and learning art

• Arts in Action – Supplies schools with a curriculum and training for volunteers to teach art in school

QUESTIONS