Art

Evolution: The Impact of Technology on Cultural Art; Past, Present, and Future



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[] Area || Curriculum Standard(s) || Technology || Description || Supporting Resource || Tried and True (TT) or New and Innovative (NI) || Historical, Cultural, and Social Context Children will be able to understand the impact history, culture, society, and politics have on art.
 * Content
 * Art || Visual Arts

> various cultures that settled in Ohio over time. || Artsonia.com Flip Video Scanner Internet
 * Children should be able to identify and describe artwork from

[] Database of various Ohio art pieces of the past. || **Activity 1:** Students will view historical, cultural, political, and societal pieces of artwork and discuss the following:

What time period is this piece of artwork? What is the culture represented in the piece of artwork? Is there a specific gender represented in the art? How do you feel history, culture, society, or politics have impacted this piece of artwork? Why is the selected piece of artwork significant to Ohio? After discussion, students will use Flip Video to create a video of the culture that is present in our school today. Explain how our current culture will impact the future of Ohio. Remember to include the following: Culture of person interviewed, reason family lives in certain town (relocation, all their life, etc.) How will your school culture/generation affect future school culture/generations? Explain your thinking in a short PSA. (Publlic Service Announcement)
 * Activity 2:**

Based off of a piece of artwork presented in class and critiqued, students will create their own piece of artwork with similar media and design. This student creation will be scanned and placed online for student comments and voting at [|www.Artsonia.com]. || [] This article explains the importance of online art galleries to support the visual arts in schools. Artsonia is one of the featured free online art studios that highlights many schools with millions of student created art pieces. Parents and families can view student work, join a school or student fan club, as well as, purchase items with student work. The proceeds of purchases can go toward supporting the school's art program.
 * Activity 3:**

 This article presents reasoning in support of flip cameras to capture oral history:

"By bringing together oral history theory and practice, video technology, and visual rhetoric theory the course has an opportunity to challenge students to consider how technologies (words, images, movies) can help us reveal the significance of the stories and histories of those whose voices are, for one reason or another, not heard."

By permission from L.Girbino, the follow resources are available for the support of technology day. Special thanks to her for collaborating and sharing her wonderful global knowledge, especially in the area of the arts.

[|www.aurora-schools.org/staff/lgirbino/] [|www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=57519] http://girbino-art247.blogspot.com || NI This is new and innovative since theuse of flip camera in the use of schools is fairly new, especially by incorporating their use in the art content area.

TT This is tried and true because of the use with scanners to reproduce traditional art work into a digital form. The use of the internet is also tried as a tool to acquire knowledge. ||