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Okay, so the cats are cute.  I’ll let you decide whether or not this is art, because this clip brings me to another point… As a Visual Arts educator using technology in the art room, I spend a lot of time prattling on about how iPad art is a lot more than simply...

Mark Brumley is an educational technology leader working to enhance the education of 21st Century learners.  In this post, originally published on Teach Amazing, Mark explains that in the 20th Century the “Three R’s”, reading, writing and arithmetic generally provided a solid...

” It’s easy to think of works of art as direct descendents of their maker. We look at “The Starry Night” and we think of van Gogh, hunched over his easel, alone in his room. We go to the opera and think that Natalie Dessay sang a beautiful aria, but...

” In an era dominated by constant information and the desire to be social, should the tone of thinking for students be different? This is the world of Google. In this world full of information abundance, our minds are constantly challenged to react to data, and often in a...

EDUDEMIC “We are one year closer to flying cars, hoverboards and the overpopulation of Earth that leads to the eventual colonization of Mars! These sci-fi fantasies are indeed on the horizon, but before they are realized, technology will affect the more mundane parts of the...

What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons is an alternative to copyright.  It’s a not-for-profit organisation (maybe a movement) that allows content creators to license their work and identify the way it can be used, shared and remixed with appropriate attribution. Mission...

If you have ever lived with another person and come home to find them in a bad mood, how long did it take you to figure it out? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Most people say “seconds,” and some can tell before they even enter the same room. That’s how children feel...

One of the benefits of living in an increasingly connected world is the unprecedented access to resources and information we now enjoy.  In the arts, we can make use of the incredible websites and apps in our classrooms to show students a work that hangs on the wall in a gallery...

Here’s a great idea… Take your students to a gallery and let them interact with the sculptures like never before.  We took a group of Year 10s on a walk through a sculpture garden and asked them to use their iPads to photograph the work.  Using their iPads they...

Where do you begin the search for art apps for the classroom?  Many websites have some excellent lists and we’ve put some of the best all in once place.   Apps for Art Creative Bloq’s 15 Best iPad apps for sketching and painting App Advice: Apps for the iPhone...