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Why use online teaching and learning in visual arts?
Robinson and Roland (1994 cited in Roblyer & Edwards 2000, p. 281) offer four reasons to integrate ICT in an arts education:
- By integrating new technologies into the arts curriculum, instructors expose students to new and exciting modes of artistic expression. All media have a place in the curriculum if they enable students to achieve desired instructional outcomes. New technologies warrant special attention because they constitute entirely new genres of art that alter paradigms about art.
- The new technological culture requires today’s students to develop a whole new set of literacies that go far beyond computer literacy. Arts instruction provides many unique opportunities for students to hone analytical skills to critically evaluate the flood of messages that fill a technologically saturated environment. The communication language of the new technologies – sound, animation, music, drama, video, graphics, texts, and voice – is also the language of the arts. Thus, art teachers are particularly well-positioned to help students develop skills as both critical producers and critical consumers of electronic media.
- In the workplace of tomorrow, workers often will have to generate creative solutions to problems. An arts program that develops students’ potentials for innovation in the areas of music, animation, graphics, multimedia, desktop publishing, and other emerging technologies will enable those students to compete in tomorrow’s global business environment.
- The arts counterbalance the massive infusion of technological change that society is experiencing. Technology can be seductive, and people need to keep in mind unique human abilities. Citizens of tomorrow’s world will need coping skills that enable them to keep their aesthetic sensibilities in the face of breathtaking technological advances. Arts education will help develop and maintain these skills.
Websites
ArtsEdNet 
The Getty Center for Education in the Arts (USA). This site has curriculum, lesson plans, resource collections and a library on discipline-based arts education.
ARTSEDGE
ARTSEDGE is the Kennedy Center’s (USA) national arts education dissemination network and supports the creative and appropriate uses of technology. It offers lesson plans, curriculum planning information and other resources.
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
SOFweb’s Teacher Resources: The Arts
Exploratorium Cool Sites: Art Museums
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
References
Roblyer, M. D. & Edwards, J. 2000. Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching. 2nd edn. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddler River, New Jersey
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