I believe that my students in the city deserve the same quality education and technology experiences that their counterparts in the suburbs just a few miles away receive. A laptop computer would open up a world of images and experiences for my visual arts learners.
The students at the public school where I teach are enthusiastic learners from diverse cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
We are a kindergarten through eighth grade elementary school. My students face academic and artistic challenges with vigor and excitement and I am privileged to be their visual arts teacher.
My students are 97% low-income and are primarily Hispanic-American, many 1st or 2nd generation, with minimal understanding of cultures other than their own. Through visual art, my students will discover differences and similarities that exist between their world and those of other cultures.
My Project
My art program is taught from a small, shared mobile classroom or on a cart, depending on the day. The students dive right into whatever art experiences I present to them; they do not see or feel the limitations that I sometimes do. I relish the thought of being able to share limitless images with them, snippets of interviews with artists of designers and to take them on tours of the
world's museums.
I could share many more project samples, resources, and inspirational images. Since I cannot bring them to an art studio, I could bring the art studio to them in the form of multimedia. A world of video art, design and galleries will be opened up to them through the use of a laptop. Images, presentations, processes and experiences would open up to them anew.
Sharing technology and the information that access to technology can bring is an important part of teaching my students the skills they need to be competitive 21st century learners.
Their experiences can sometimes be limited, and giving us the ability to access and share the wealth of resources available online would open up new worlds for them and provide countless opportunities for growth and self discovery.
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