Chapter 2-
Focus Question: How can students express their creativity using technology?
Students can express their creativity using technology through, Word processing, desktop publishing, design tools, digital cameras, digital video movies, and podcasts.
Creativity is a much-prized quality in society-but it is not always clearly understood in schools. What defines one being creative? Children express creativity in many ways, some by drawing, painting, or sculpting; some build with blocks or clay; or explore outdoors. Others express themselves on bikes, skateboards, roller blades, or sports. Still, others play musical instruments, act in plays, or write stories and poetry. To be creative, children do not need to design, compose, or develop something no one has done before, they may need to say or do things they have not thought or done before in quite the same way or style. Being creative is what is new to the individual, not new to the world.
Computers give novelists, essayists, poets, journalists, and everyday writers a different experience from working on paper and pen. noted one art critic:
The computer had enabled artists to create works,and new types of work, never before possible: intricate images that could not be created by hand; sculptures formed in three-dimensional databases rather than in stone or metal; interactive installations taht involve Internet participation from around the globe; and virtually worlds within which artificial life forms live and die. (Wands,2006,p.8)
When students incorporate technology with creativity, it allows them to open up many more ideas. By using Word Processing and desktop publishing, students are able to freely write on the computer with the added help of sentence structure and spell check. These programs are not only beneficial but also almost required in all schools and businesses around the globe. With the help of design tools, digital cameras, digitial videos, and podcasts, students are able to express creativity through visual and action.
Tech Tool Link: Bridge Building Contest
WOW! This website is packed with creative ideas waiting to be heard. The website is designed for making of the West Point Bridge Design Contest. All you have to do is download the West Point Bridge Designer 2007 software and submit as many designs as you would like! This website allows the opportunity to use design tools and incorprate ones creative design skills. This website is easy to maneuver and self- explanitory. I think this website would be a fun, new, educational way for students to get involved with their community and in touch with their creative side.
Summary & Connection:
This chapter was full of great ideas and setbacks of learning with technology. Learning about the NETS-T and NETS-S was very useful the issue of visual learning was intriguing. Visual learning is gaining knowledge through the use of pictures, drawings, video, animation, and other visual sources of information. I can see myself as a future educator using the practice of visual learning because it increases instructional options for teachers and the students. Visual technology offers multidimensional ways of seeing the world.
I am interested in learning more about visual literacy, defined as; "study of visualization in all of its aspects of communication and education" (Braden,1996, p.491) Visual literacy involves giving students the skills needed to critically read color and form and asess the many types of visual presentations they will encounter in school and society. I find this to be a very crucual subject matter for educators to understand.
Resources:
Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., &
Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn
& Bacon.
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