Day One
1. Sign in/Coffee/Course Outline/Course Objectives/Introduction
1. To survey a wide range of arts based Web sites, exploring how they may be used as learning tools and how they connect to all areas of the K-8 curriculum.
2. To model and create lessons that integrate the arts, the Internet and the K-8 curriculum.
3. To examine the NYS Learning Standards for the Arts, exploring how they overlap with all other areas of the curriculum.
4. To inform teachers about online arts
based projects and programs.
1. Wired to Learn and Express: Children are wired to learn and, at the same time, have a basic need to express themselves. Given the opportunity, they naturally do both through play and through interacting with others.
2. The Arts as a Spark, a Conduit and a Reservoir: The arts energize students, engage their brains and make learning more fun and meaningful. They represent a disciplined yet remarkably flexible manipulation of language, visual symbols, sound, movement and action, and a vast reservoir of human experience and expression. They are a means for children to play creatively and to interact with others from around the world and across the centuries; and, thus, serve as a powerful conduit for learning and self-expression.
"Art is a major path to knowledge. " Leonardo da Vinci
"The arts constitute one of the important forms of representation through which humans share what they have thought, felt, or believed." Elliot Eisner
"...art is not just a series of pretty objects; it is rather a way we have of articulating our interior life. We have a continuing and complex inner response to the external world, composed of various needs, emotions, thoughts, both fleeting and long-term. This inner life is not transparent to us, not self-interpreting; if we are to understand it we must give it some more perceptible shapes, and then examine the shapes. Art is one way of doing this." Michael J. Parsons
"Through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view." Anonymous
3. The Internet as Window on the World: The Internet provides access to a wide array of arts resources that can enrich the classroom experience and meaningfully connect students to the world around them.
4. The Teacher as Conductor: Teachers
who integrate the arts, the Internet and the curriculum in the classroom
provide students with a uniquely rich learning environment.
1. Sign in/Coffee
2. Two Valuable Resources:
4. Music in the Morning