Technology in the Art Room

Technology has made a significant impact on education and how teaching and communicating ideas can be approached. Generating interest and focusing attention on lessons can be achieved more effectively by incorporating media that appeals to students different learning styles.

Projectors can clearly display large digital images and are great for focusing student attention on presentations. Incorporating audio and video will also add to the interest level in the classroom. The Internet provides an impressive array of materials to increase student learning and there are many resources available to educators.

 Demonstrating art processes to large classes can be challenging. Gathering students around a table can lead to many difficulties with attention and typically space is limited. Document cameras are a great resource for educators and can display everything from printed material to painting techniques without disruption.

Student access to computers is also a great addition to the art room. Digital art and design work is a necessary component of any art curriculum and it is important to provide students with current technology to experiment with creatively. There are many great drawing and art history aps for iPads and students could use them easily without the need for additional space or the transition time that is involved with traditional computer labs.