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Interesting “Stuff”

A great way to end 2012 with some interesting resources including links to articles, research on arts education, podcasts and other types of resources. Enjoy!

• Make a Difference – an old story but worth seeing over and over. http://www.makeadifferencemovie.com/.
• Art (& Science) Talk with Kerry Tribe by Whitney Dail, December 4, 2012 from Art Works Podcast. http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=15592
• Dear Mr. President: Children Invited to Offer Obama Advice by Erik Robelen, Education Week, November 27, 2012. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/11/if_president_barack_obama_had.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
• Podcast: Pete Seeger remembers his good friend and fellow folk icon Woody Guthrie.
• A site devoted to providing resources and tools for those working with students with disabilities. There is a segment devoted to integrating the arts and technology which covers a lot of really outstanding information that you can access by clicking here.
• Art for the Elementary School Teacher Workshop. Online course, next one starts January 7, 2013. FMI: http://www.artmuseums.com/teach.htm
• RSAnimate- Sir Ken Robinson talk, animates through drawing what he is talking about so you get both aural and a visual experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=youtu.be
• National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announces a new strategy for arts education at the NEA at the national forum of the Arts Education Partnership. His speech is here http://www.arts.gov/news/news12/Chattanooga-speech.html.
• Art Works blog: Taking Note: Skills + Knowledge = 21st-Century Competencies http://artworks.arts.gov/?p=14236.
• The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies http://www.arts.gov/research/Arts-At-Risk-Youth.pdf.
  This report examines arts-related variables from four large datasets — three maintained by the U.S. Department of Education and one by the Department of Labor — to understand the relationship between arts engagement and positive academic and social outcomes in children and young adults of low socioeconomic status (SES).
• The NEA published The Arts and Human Development: Framing a National Research Agenda for the Arts, Lifelong Learning, and Individual Well-Being http://www.arts.gov/pub/TheArtsAndHumanDev.pdf in November 2011. Over the next year, the NEA convened a series of webinars including:    Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development: September 19, 2012 Webinar http://www.arts.gov/research/TaskForce/Sept19-2012.html.
  The September 19, 2012, Task Force webinar focused on the question “Can the arts play a role in transforming struggling schools and improving student outcomes?”
  Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development: August 1, 2012 Webinar http://www.nea.gov/research/TaskForce/August1-2012.html.
  The August 1, 2012, Task Force webinar focused on how arts educators can reach youth who are immersed in today’s interconnected, multimedia environment.
• 1-to-1 Computing Movement Suffers Recent Setbacks by Mike Bock from Education Week, Nov. 16, 2012. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2012/11/la_tablets_rejected.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
• Art Works
• Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-wide Communication. The link will lead you to this Rand research written by Susan J. Bodilly Catherine H. Augustine with Laura Zakaras and can be found by clicking here w.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG702.pdf.
• Website with “box” information: http://www.auntannie.com.
• “Creativity is like falling in love… there’s this incredible urge to discover potential.” Jake Barton on vimeo at http://exp.lore.com/post/36897991378/creativity-is-like-falling-in-love-theres-this.

Thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for some of the above language.