Paint or Paint App? Value of Creating Digital Vs. Traditional Art
While it may be easy to imagine how iPads can support classroom studies with reading, history, or science, some of the most groundbreaking — and creative — work with digital tools may be happening in...
View ArticleHow Video Games and Social Media Fuel Students’ Passion for Art
The average teenager consumes about 10 hours of media per day according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, and that’s often through a gadget like smartphone or tablet. But depending on what we...
View ArticleHow Field Trips Build Critical Thinking Skills
School field trips are on the decline in American education for many reasons. Schools are making tough choices about how to spend scarce resources, are spending more time in class preparing for...
View ArticleHow Visual Thinking Improves Writing
Younger kids typically love to draw and aren’t too worried about the outcomes of their artwork — until they get older. By the time they’ve learned to read and write, art takes a back burner to...
View ArticleMaking Learning Visible: Doodling Helps Memories Stick
Shelley Paul and Jill Gough had heard that doodling while taking notes could help improve memory and concept retention, but as instructional coaches they were reluctant to bring the idea to teachers...
View ArticleHow Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify When I visited Maya Lin, an elementary school in Alameda, California where...
View ArticleWhat Happens in Your Brain When You Make Art
A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I’m a journalist on NPR’s science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at...
View ArticleSenior’s Cancelled Art Show Transformed Into a Front Yard Art Gallery
For months, Marla Callistein had been planning to drive to the University of Missouri to attend her son Dylan’s senior art show. Dylan is a graphic design major, and the art show represented the...
View ArticleFor kids grappling with the pandemic’s traumas, art classes can be an oasis
School’s a little different this year, so art teachers are using their classes to help kids cope. After spending months trying to get used to remote learning, now kids are struggling to adjust to being...
View ArticleHow arts education builds better brains and better lives
From the book “Your Brain on Art” by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Copyright © 2023 by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. Reprinted by arrangement with Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC....
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