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Three Innovative Arts Education Resources

January 25, 2013, 7:24 am • Posted by Kristin Farr
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Screen Shot 2013-01-23 at 4.29.53 PMCheck out three of our favorite resources focused on visual arts in education:

Red Studio is the Museum of Modern's Arts interactive and collaborative project with high school students in New York City. Exploring "issues and questions raised by teens about today's modern art, working artists, and what goes on behind the scenes at a museum," the site features interviews with artists and opportunities to make digital art. The image above was creative in Red Studio's REMIX interactive collage tool.

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Art Babble is like YouTube for art videos. This site was developed by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and features videos from partners including KQED, PBS's Art:21, The San Jose Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, and many more, including national and international organizations. Videos are organized by medium, location, themes, and time period. There is a special section specifically for educators with classroom-appropriate videos and resources.

Screen Shot 2013-01-23 at 4.48.11 PMArt Education 2.0 is a Ning networking web site initiated by professor and educator Craig Roland. It hosts a robust collection of resources and offers many opportunities for idea sharing and networking among fellow arts educators. Membership is free, and there are currently over 12,000 active members who upload ideas, videos, and photos to share with their global community of colleagues.

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Do Now #58: The Effects of Violence in Media

January 19, 2013, 10:32 am • Posted by Maxine Einhorn
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from PBS video What Next: Violence in the Media

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Do Now

Is there a link between aggressive behavior and the portrayal of violence in the media? Do movies and/or video games make us violent? Does video game violence affect us differently than movie violence? Please respond to any of these questions.

Introduction

Mick LaSalle, the film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, seems to think so. In his article Violent Media Poisoning Nation's Soul, he argues, “The interaction between real-life and movies is complicated. Some will claim that movies influence behavior, even as producers will invariably insist that movies only reflect society, as though movies were some unobtrusive aspect of culture, unnoticed by the world. The truth is that movies and society influence each other in ways that overlap and are therefore arguable. But clearly something seems to be going on, and something is in need of changing.”

He acknowledges that there may not be an immediate causal connection, but in this piece describes his "epiphany" after the killer in the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado dressed as a Batman villain gunned down people in the “The Dark Knight Rises” audience last year. The film didn’t cause the killing. But there must be a connection. Dark movies that glorify carnage associate these images with pleasure in the minds of theater-going audiences. Gratuitous slaughter becomes cool.

“… it did seem to me that the soul-crushing chaos of the film - ultimately reflected in what happened in Aurora.” LaSalle, 1/2/13

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Media Innovators in Education

September 20, 2011, 4:27 pm • Posted by Maxine Einhorn
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KQED Education joined forces with BAVC, ITVS, and San Francisco Film Society to present Media Innovators in Education at The Lab in the Mission last Thursday Sept 8th. More than 100 teachers and educators attended the event which was produced collaboratively by these Bay Area media organizations to inspire and support educators who are doing cool things with media or who would like to get on board.

Four educators were invited to showcase their work and take part in a panel: Liza Mathews a 4th grade and Kindergarten teacher and PBS Innovation Award winner from Larkspur-Corte Madera School; Elizabeth Jackson, a 4th grade teacher at Bacich Elementary School; David Maduli, a 9th grade English teacher at Nea Community Learning Center in Alameda and Toby Rugger, an ESL teacher at Oakland International High School.

Panelists talked about challenges they faced - technical and administrative – in integrating media and media literacy into their curriculum. They also discussed using media in interesting ways to stimulate dialogue and develop critical thinking skills in students. Educators clearly felt it to be important to use media creatively in order to engage students and maintain currency and relevance in today’s media savvy culture.

Eager for resources, teachers visited the resource tables offered by each organization, asked questions and networked enthusiastically with media makers, keen to share what they are doing and find out about exciting new media tools. KQED Education showcased multimedia resources, introducing visitors to our table to the wealth of lesson plans and educator guides, as well as the media training programs offered at the station.

Since this event was so appreciated by educators, our organizations are exploring ways to offer further resource sharing opportunities for teachers and educators in the Bay Area.
For KQED Educator Resources visit http://www.kqed.org/education/

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