Art Education
Technology:
Digital Storytelling
A story is a
restructured everyday experience through which we come to know,
remember, and understand. Through stories we explain, interpret, and
assess situations, experiences, and ideologies, leading in turn to the
creation of new meanings. Storytelling is prevalent in all aspects of
human interaction. It connects generations of the past with the present
and future to form, pass on, or reformulate wisdom, values, and beliefs.
Pre- and in-service art teachers at the University of Houston learned
about art education technology through a course, which focuses on the
application of digital storytelling to art education. This course
explored the potential of digital storytelling for visual culture art
education while expanding the technology skills and knowledge of the
students for teaching art to the digital generation. Digital
storytelling not only addresses art education’s current concerns with
visual culture, computer technology, and interdisciplinary pedagogy, but
also allows art learners to cultivate and apply their multiple literacy,
artistic, and critical skills to give voice to greater issues of
importance to a worldwide audience.
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(Click on an image to watch our videos!)
Standardize Me
- by Pamela Yenetchi
How Can Art Education Benefit Our Children?
- by Jerita Burreson
Edgar Degas
- by Julia Rowland
