TPCK Art Education Presentation

Placing the magic in the classroom

TPCK in arts education

            Incorporating art into the classroom can come in many forms. Integrating art can consist of visual arts, technology, music, dance, drama, and media. This chapter gave a great deal of information and resources as to how to go about creating lessons and curriculum around the content of art to help your students be more expressive and creative in their personal learning. Introducing and incorporating art into a classroom helps to reach all learners and abilities and requires students to engage in opportunities through self-expression and self-exploration.

Positive Aspects of Integrating Art:

• ·      Every single one of the 21^st century skills can be enhanced through arts education.
• ·      Many felt that the websites provided throughout the chapter were a great resource and helped give ideas as to how to go about incorporating art into their own teaching.
• ·      Technology is a very important part of integrating art into the classroom. The Internet is a great source to allow for students to access material that they would not be able to otherwise.
• ·      Technology can be used to create projects such as I-photo, I-movie, Google Sketch-Up, Comic Strip, Garageband, etc.
• ·      “Technology provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of the imagination” (p. 189).