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Blog Post #13

How would you incorporate the arts in your classroom using technology?
-List an example for each of the arts: art, music, dance, theatre.
-Be creative






Incorporating arts into the every day curriculum is something I plan on doing when I am a teacher. I am strong believer of keeping the arts alive. I would also love to use technology to go along with the arts. There are a variety of ways to include technology with the arts.

For art and theatre, I would do a combination. The article How Technology is Moving Arts Education Beyond the Classroom, tells about how the Pittsburgh Filmakers teach a course of how to use film to study art. This course is teaching students how to shoot and create their own movie. Art in incorporated by the graphic design. I could use this in my class room when we talk about landforms. The students would be assigned to create an informational video telling us about their landform. This would require the art of designing and the process in theatre of putting it all together in written form.

Music would be a fun art to incorporate the technology. I could easily grab an iPad and pull up the piano app to show students how to play a simple tune. Another very nontraditional thing to do would let the students use the app BeatHawk. The article iPad and Technology in Music Education explains that BeatHawk is an app that allows people to make their own beats on an iPad. How awesome would it be to let students create their own music using technology in the classroom?!

Lastly, dance is the most forgotten about art in the classroom. This can easily be included in any social studies lesson when talking about different cultures. I would do a lesson on Africa and some of the things tribes do with their everyday lives. Dancing is a major factor in African tribes. I would pull up a video of an African dance in the smart board to show the students. After loosening up the idea I would then let the students make their own dances to share on a class blog.

Keeping  the arts in the classroom is very important, but adding technology to the arts is even better. 
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Comments

  1. UnknownApril 20, 2015 at 3:09 PM

    Great post! I think the arts are just as important to work in to the curriculum, and using technology to do so is an excellent idea.

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  2. Heather HudginsApril 20, 2015 at 4:29 PM

    Arts are very important to keep in the schools. I like your ideas about using technology to help keep and introduce the arts into the curriculum. The BeatHawk app sounds very interesting and I will have to look into that. Great post!

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  3. UnknownApril 27, 2015 at 8:50 PM

    Good post!

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