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See how public school are spending on the arts vs various other programs and what this means for your child's education today and their career options in the future. 
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Increasingly, educators are looking to research about how kids learn to influence teaching practices and tools.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post looks at five trends that have made their way into the classroom. Learn more about: * Brain-based learning * Game-based learning * Power of perseverance * Questioning homework * Cultivating creativity In each of the five areas there are links to a number of resources. Gather together some of these great resources and share them with others in your school!
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"I believe that creativity is necessary in today’s classroom. In fact, creativity is one of the important 4 C’s (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity) that make up part of the foundation of a 21st century education. The remaining foundation is of course another C (Significant Content). I believe that when you put all of these C’s together you get two more C’s which make up the 'Common Core'."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post is the first in series and discusses free resources that may be stored on a local computer or a network. The list includes Scratch, Sketc-Up, Gimp, 3 free office suites, Alice, a variety of tools that will help you make movies and more. Most are described in some detail and there are links to additional resources to help you learn the tool. Additional posts will discuss Web 2.0 apps that may be used on the Internet (and across platforms), web apps and sites that promote literacy and student publication and web sites that promote student creativity.
Randy D. Nichols's curator insight,
January 15, 2013 9:30 AM
A good list to help you start (or continue) bulding a "digital toolbox" for multimodal compositions. (I will steal some of these ideas for my delicious links!)
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"Welcome to a post devoted to turning STEM to STEAM. It is exciting to cover the topic of STEAM since it is important to include the Arts. I have also included 25 resources to help make it happen!..."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Take STEM, add A for Art, and you get STEAM. As this post states, if you think of Leonardo di Vinci and his work this is a logical connection. This post discusses why adding the A for Art is important and the changes that may happen because of it, such as more innovation and creativity. The list of resources includes links for all five letters and chances are you will find a few that you may not have checked out. Below are five of the resources listed...but click through to see the rest, and all are hot linked in the post. (Most tools listed are free but a few have costs.) * Cardboard Challenge * Why Scientific Innovation Needs the Arts * PBS Learning Makers Party * Odyssey of the Mind * The Arts Institute of Chicago Have fun exploring this diverse set of STEAM resources!
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"As children, young children, everything meant playing and art. We saw the world as a playground and a canvass. It didn’t matter whether or not we could actually draw. What mattered was the thrill of creating something beautiful. We were all artists. We still are."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for some great websites and ideas to help you integrate art into your curriculum this post may provide everything you need. The information is split into the following categories: * Math * Geometry * Science * Computer Science * Movies Across the Curriculum * Writing and Grammar * Reading * Social Studies Each suggestion includes additional information and in many cases provides links to specific website. Have fun exploring the wide range of options!
Lewis Evans's curator insight,
March 22, 2013 9:42 PM
Creativity needs to be integrated into all education - not just the arts.
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"The student’s eyes drift to the classroom window and the teacher’s voice fades from consciousness. The daydream begins. It’s a familiar scene, one we have likely both experienced as students and struggled against in our students as teachers. But daydreaming is not what it might seem. Recent research in both psychology and neuroscience makes clear that daydreaming is an essential part of mental processing, reasoning and, yes, even learning."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you have wondered if daydreaming makes students better learners then this article will provide 15 reasons as well as many resources. A few of the reasons listed are (all are quotes): * Daydreaming is the mind's natural state * Daydreaming helps with critical thinking and problem solving * Daydreaming...greatly increases the mind’s ability to smoothly shift in the face of unanticipated events and situations. An additional 12 items are listed.
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Today teachers are asked to provide opportunities for students to show their creativity, but in many schools are programs are being cut due to budget concerns...and STEM is being renamed STEAM to include the arts.
This infographic explores why it is important to have the arts as a player in public education. Below are a few of the reasons from the infographic. Click through to see all the reasons (eleven if I counted correctly).
* Have you wondered how much federal funding goes to the National Science Foundation as compared to the Arts and Humanities? Do the figures of $5 billion versus $250 million surprise you?
* The No Child Left Behind Act outlines the arts (music, art, foreign language) as core academic subjects, but the Huffington Post notes that fewer elementary schools are offering it...and research shows that students whom study arts are three times more likely to be awarded for good attendance.
You will also find a list of the resources used in the infographic.
This is an infographic that you may want to share with administrators and with parents.