Education Week
Art and Music Learning Emphasize Interactivity, Real-World Relevance, by Katie Ash, June 13, 2001. This article gives several examples of classes that are utilizing technology tools in music and visual arts classrooms and the thoughtful reasoning behind these high school courses. This is an excerpt from the article:
Mr. Cauthron’s students recently completed a project called Pandora’s Box, in which high schoolers met up with two 3rd grade classrooms to teach the younger students the Greek myth of Pandora. The 3rd graders drew pictures representing the myth and then turned them into watercolor paintings.
Next, the high schoolers took the paintings and re-created them with costumes and digital photography, which was then woven into a video with narration from the 3rd graders.
and another comment segment of the article…
“The most fun thing in the class is playing on the keyboards and getting to play and perform in programs,” the student said. The technology the students use in class helps her learn, she said, “because you can record yourself playing music into the computer, and when you make mistakes, you can try to get it right the next time.”
If you click on the icon in the article that looks like the embedded image in this post you can see examples of student work from Digital Arts Technology Academy at the Cathedral City High School, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
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