by Stephen Downes
1. How to predict consequences
2. How to read
3. How to distinguish truth from fiction
4. How to empathize
5. How to be creative
6. How to communicate clearly
7. How to Learn
8. How to stay healthy
9. How to value yourself
10. How to live meaningfully
Link to the Article
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Art Criticism
1. What's going on in this picture?
2. What do you see that makes you say that?
3. What else can you find?
Link to the Article (pdf)
2. What do you see that makes you say that?
3. What else can you find?
Link to the Article (pdf)
Case for arts education
The benefits of early arts education extend way beyond providing a creative outlet for children.
Arts education can help children develop --
- imagination
- cognitive skills
- creative abilities
- problem solving
- fine motor skills
- language
- social skills
- sense of time and place
- focusing
- listening
- risk taking
- tolerance
- uniqueness
Art is important to the development of all children. Here's why...
* Art is a link to the past. It provides an enjoyable perspective from which to examine history.
* Art helps students to understand and empathize with the living conditions people have endured at various times and places.
* Art encourages imagination. It shows students how they might express their own feelings and experiences through painting and drawing.
* Art provides children an opportunity to create and do, which can be a refreshing break from studying.
* Art teaches students how to interpret different forms of communication. It teaches them to understand figurative things like symbolism, metaphor, and the meanings of color.
* Art improves academic achievement. Evidence suggests that students who actively participate in some form of art — whether it be painting, acting, music, etc. — perform better in other subjects than students who don't participate in art.
Americansforthearts.org
Why Should Georgia’s Youth Receive Art Education?
Arts education can help children develop --
- imagination
- cognitive skills
- creative abilities
- problem solving
- fine motor skills
- language
- social skills
- sense of time and place
- focusing
- listening
- risk taking
- tolerance
- uniqueness
Art is important to the development of all children. Here's why...
* Art is a link to the past. It provides an enjoyable perspective from which to examine history.
* Art helps students to understand and empathize with the living conditions people have endured at various times and places.
* Art encourages imagination. It shows students how they might express their own feelings and experiences through painting and drawing.
* Art provides children an opportunity to create and do, which can be a refreshing break from studying.
* Art teaches students how to interpret different forms of communication. It teaches them to understand figurative things like symbolism, metaphor, and the meanings of color.
* Art improves academic achievement. Evidence suggests that students who actively participate in some form of art — whether it be painting, acting, music, etc. — perform better in other subjects than students who don't participate in art.
Americansforthearts.org
Why Should Georgia’s Youth Receive Art Education?
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Multicultural tip
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would
look something like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and
all 6 would be from the US
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
2 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for understanding of, acceptance of, and education about other cultures becomes glaringly apparent.
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would
look something like this:
There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and
all 6 would be from the US
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
2 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for understanding of, acceptance of, and education about other cultures becomes glaringly apparent.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Questions to ask myself daily
1. How can my questions trigger ideas and creativity from students?
Outcome of projects are determined by my questions.
2. Do I have a backup plan?
3. Project goals- 1) Instill vision for life 2) Boost creativity, 3) critical thinking skills, ask why 3) Fun and engaging, of course
4. How am I fostering confidence in each child? How can I motivate students?
Outcome of projects are determined by my questions.
2. Do I have a backup plan?
3. Project goals- 1) Instill vision for life 2) Boost creativity, 3) critical thinking skills, ask why 3) Fun and engaging, of course
4. How am I fostering confidence in each child? How can I motivate students?
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