Today’s students need to be media producers and not just consumers! Explore ideas, samples, and lessons that demonstrate how creative technology tools utilize and promote visual skills to enhance learning across the curriculum.

1. Melinda Kolk
melinda@tech4learning.com

3. Art educators as 21st century leaders
"To be literate in this day and age, you have
to be creative and be an artist on some
level. We are living in a very dynamic, a very
literate, and a very aesthetic age, and you
ignore this at your own peril in terms of your
potential for financial success."
It is time for art to step up and
say, “we are not a content area,
we are about more than self-
expression, we are about jobs!”
Jason Ohler, Interview on www.thecreativeeducator.com

4. Art educators as 21st century leaders
"At least once a week 14% of teachers let
students make something with technology.
63% NEVER do."
Kids want to be making!
and not just in art!
A Vision of K-12 Students Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

5. Art educators as 21st century leaders
"I employ XX in art class because the
students don't get it in their other
classrooms."
Art and design in every
classroom, not just art.

6. Art educators as 21st century leaders
Creating nonlinguistic representations of
knowledge requires students to organize
and elaborate on the information. Robert
Marzano and team state, “the more we use
both systems of representation – linguistic
and non-linguistic – the better we are able
to think about and recall knowledge."
Who better to teach visual skills
than you?
Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D. J., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works:
Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: ASCD

7. 8 Studio Habits of Mind
Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems and
persevering at tasks.
Express: Learning to convey ideas and meaning.
Reflect: Learning to judge one’s own work and process
and those of others.
Envision: Learning to picture mentally and imagine next
steps.
Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials,
conventions.
Observe: Learning to attend closely.
Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s
capacities and embrace mistakes.
Understand Arts Community: Learning to interact as
an artist with other artists.
closely mirror and support...

8. Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique
the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in
repeated reasoning.
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/

9. Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts

10. Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts
http://connect.tech4learning.com/video/split-milk

11. Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts
http://connect.tech4learning.com/video/castudentmediaaewfishtankjessi-1

12. Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts
http://connect.tech4learning.com/video/aew-kk-2009-andy-warhol

13. Art Across the Curriculum: Language Arts
http://connect.tech4learning.com/video/aew-margaux-trailer

14. Art Across the Curriculum: Math
Common Core State Standards - Math - Geometry
Grade 4
3. Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as
a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along
the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and
draw lines of symmetry.

15. Symmetry
Essential Questions
How do artists use symmetry?
Is symmetry beautiful?
What does symmetry sound like?
What does symmetry feel like?
Why use symmetry to make art?

16. Art Across the Curriculum: Math
Common Core State Standards - Math - Geometry
Grade 1
2. Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids,
triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes
(cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular
cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the
composite shape
Grade 8
3. Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on
two-dimensional figures using coordinates.

17. Tessellations
Tasks worth doing
Create a tile design to be used at
a local park that reflects the
culture and activities that have
taken place at this location in the
past and ways it will be used now.

18. Art Across the Curriculum: Science

19. Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies

20. Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies
"As they consider examples of visual art
works within historical contexts, students
gain an deeper appreciation of their own
values, of the values of other people, and
the connection of the visual arts to
universal human needs, values, and beliefs."
Art history, art in history,
artists, and artistic styles.

21. Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies

22. Art Across the Curriculum: Social Studies