A nice little lesson starter if you are using Photoshop in the classroom and you have a sense of humour – Rhett and Link sing their ‘Photoshop Song’. “Now this is a nifty optical illusion trick: You’d think that the photo above is stitched together...
How do you teach creativity in your classroom? To get you thinking, Robert Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams have created ‘Two Dozen Tips For Teaching Creativity‘. The list can help you to assess your pedagogical practice and generate ideas for teaching and learning in...
Here’s a great lesson seed… Ask students questions about the importance of art or the role of art-making in their life. The clip below inspired a variety of individual investigations in my classroom to answer the question, ‘What does art mean to me?’....
” 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...
Sesame Street is beloved by generations… use these snippets as teaching tools and talking points for portraiture, space, etc. A Portrait of Bert Big Bird meets Chuck Close Positive and Negative Space And if you liked this post, check out our Sesame...
“Do you think you’re creative?” Ask this question of a group of second-graders, and about 95 percent of them will answer “Yes.” Three years later, when the kids are in fifth grade, that proportion will drop to 50 percent—and by the time they’re seniors in high school, it’s...
The creative process, that is, the journey taken from those initial sketchy ideas through to resolution, can be long and hard. Interestingly, when this process is reflected upon it often turns out that that journey was as valuable as the destination. Sometimes more so. The end...
” We all know George W. Bush likes to paint. In early February, a pseudonymous hacker named Guccifer published photos of Bush’s paintings — including two self-portraits — and they kept coming, and even the art critics kind of liked them. And then the Bush reunion tour...
” 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...
