Abstract

=Effective Practices: TPArtsCK - Camille Dempsey & Jordan Mroziak =

ISTE 2011 Session Description:
What are effective teaching practices related to the arts and instructional technologies? We will explore digital age skills, TPACK, and arts learning environments.

Day/Time
Tuesday, 6.28.11, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Building/Room
PACC Broad Street Atrium, Table 3

**Theme and Strand:**
Digital-Age Teaching & Learning:Arts

Purpose & Objectives:
Educational Situation: Many arts teachers have become technology enthusiasts as new tools continue to emerge in K - 18 educational settings. Even if arts teachers feel comfortable in using specific technology tools because of personal investigation and the “cool factor,” some use technologies to reinforce and be limited by traditional teaching approaches while others are influenced by “barriers” in the school environment or teacher attitudes toward new technologies.

New dynamics created by integrating technologies and the arts can create new transformative approaches to teaching and learning which can be addressed by the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) model. This presentation will explore the intersections between effective practices in the arts & technology offering insights into effective student engagement in the 21st century arts classroom.
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Attendees will: - explore the TPACK model and connections to the arts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- be able to identify some effective practices in the uses of integrating technologies into classroom instruction involving the arts. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- explore current research in effective practices involving constructivist approaches to teaching the arts and instructional technology. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- be able to identify 21st century skills necessary in the arts (Partnership for 21st century skills) & instructional technologies. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- explore NETS as it relates to the use of instructional technology in the arts
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Supportive Research:
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Historically, designing general curricula involved Lee Schuman’ s pedagogical content knowledge model, or PCK (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). Mishra and Koehler (2009) later developed a TPACK model that evolved out of Schulman's PCK work as it added ‘technological’ to the areas of ‘pedagogical and content knowledge.’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #180e0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However in the one book chapter that exists, DePlatchett (2001) describes a rationale for the value of the arts in education and provides examples of technology integration that are important to consider in curriculum (and arts teaching) that includes TPACK. Citing the Partnership for 21st Century skills report, Learning for the 21st Century, the arts can be considered a catalyst for self-discovery, creativity and critical thinking and an important content area when combined with TPACK. DePlatchett’s chapter also describes the arts role in enhancing media literacy through a myriad of tools such as Photoshop, iMovie, iTunes and virtual galleries. It is possible that the availability of online and technology resources when combined with the arts complicates teaching (DePlatchett, 2001, p. 169). Because of this, considerations in effective educational practices in IT and the arts need further investigation in the field.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #006600; display: block; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9d121a; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Original Works Not Contributed by Members are Copyright 2011 Camille Dempsey and Jordan Mroziak **