2013-20???

Vision of the future


The following is my vision of the future for teaching Fine Arts. It might change - it probably will! But as I've told you before, learning is messy and we all make mistakes. Because I think I am learner too, I am including myself in the Vision by using "we" instead of just you, the students.

The following sections have been borrowed, mashed up, and re-mixed from the [|International Society for Technology in Education's National Educational Technology Standards] for students. In other words, I've been reading some big words and here's what I think they will mean for our classroom:


 * Communication & Collaboration **
 * We will put more of our creative work on the [|class blog].
 * We will try to work with classes in other towns, other provinces, other countries, and other continents.
 * Believe it or not, Mrs. Vanness doesn't know everything. We will use our technology to reach out to experts to help us learn and improve and lend a hand.
 * We will use technology to perform for different audiences. This might mean Skyping performances with your family members, it might mean posting our GarageBand songs to [|Soundcloud] and seeing what other people think about them, it might be having our puppet plays on YouTube.
 * We will work in pairs, small groups and big groups, sometimes with people not even in the room or in our class.
 * We will try to have our creations "speak for themselves."
 * We will learn about Fine Arts in other places on earth by communicating with other people on earth.
 * We will talk to each other, email each other, write notes to each other, text each other, and find many ways to communicate about our Fine Arts studies.
 * We will give and accept feedback. This helps us all become better artists.


 * Creativity & Innovation **
 * We will use technology to create. We will combine old technology, such as percussion instruments, with newer technologies, such as voice sampling, to produce original creations in single, small group, and whole group arrangements.
 * We will use technology to artistically express ourselves, reflect on the world around us, and offer potential solutions.
 * We will all experiment and try new things.
 * We will follow our passions and share them with others.


 * Technology Operations **
 * We will use the technology that makes sense for what we are trying to do.
 * We will try to understand how the technology works so that we can use it better.
 * We will take care of our devices.


 * Digital Citizenship **
 * We will respect the work of all artists by giving them proper credit, paying for use when required, and learning about Creative Commons. We will beg and borrow, but we will not steal.
 * We will use appropriate language, images, and sounds in all creations.
 * "With great power comes great responsibility," said Spiderman. We will use technology for good, not evil.
 * We will consciously create our digital footprint.
 * We will teach others what we know and understand.


 * Critical Thinking **
 * We will decide what, exactly, we want to learn about.
 * We will figure out a way to learn what we want to learn about.
 * We will know when we have learned what we wanted to know.
 * We will try a bunch of different ways to learn. For example, to learn lyrics to a song, we will Google them, we will listen to the song over and over again, we will sing along to the song, we might re-write the lyrics, we might have a class sing-along, we might make a music video that explains the lyrics to the song, or we might turn the lyrics into a piece of visual art.


 * Research & Information **
 * We will use online sites to find out about artists we like; discuss, compare, and contrast different Arts; and learn how to do certain artsy things better.
 * We will become familiar with some websites that are better than others and know //why// those websites are better.
 * We will do all of this without having to carry anything around with us. All of our favourites, bookmarks, and research will be stored and accessed online.

This is my Vision of the Future for teaching Fine Arts in our elementary school. If you want to learn more, don't understand something you see here, or have a different Vision of the Future, please use the discussion tab at the top of this wiki or email me.

Thanks so much! Mrs. Vanness