podcast ep 3

In this episode of Teachers Teach Teachers, Chloe and Katie discuss how to apply art integration and technology integration in the classroom. They emphasize the importance of differentiating between arts integration and art enhancement and suggest looking at class standards and student preferences to determine the best approach. They also mention resources available for arts integrated lessons. When it comes to technology, they stress the need for a balance between technology and hands-on activities. They highlight the benefits of virtual reality (VR) in enhancing learning experiences, but caution against overuse. They conclude by encouraging educators to be creative and apply what they have learned in their classrooms. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Teachers Teach Teachers. This is Chloe and Katie back with our last episode on our series of Art Integration and Technology Integration. With this episode, we will show everyone how to apply this information that we've learned into our classrooms and have the final look into some things you may want to watch out for. So today, we will be answering questions to keep us on track. Now, Katie, what should someone look for at first when applying arts integration? The first thing that should be done is to make sure you can differentiate the difference between arts integration and art enhancement. They are two very different things, but we applaud arts enhanced for striving for arts interrogation. Then you should look at your class standards. Where is your class at in the curriculum? What standards are they using for art right now? Are they in comparison of your students' grades? You can use a range of different art forms, such as media art, visual art, dance, music, and much more. Also, know your classroom. Feel what works best for your classroom. Do they not like to get up and dance around? Therefore, I would go for media art. If you have a very active class, the classroom dance might be the best option for you. There are plenty of resources out there to help guide your lessons, such as the education closet, dot com slash arts integration lessons, provide links, and different ideas for arts integrated lessons. How is integrating technology into the classroom just as effective as pencil and paper? When talking about comparing the two, it's important you have an equal balance of technology versus hands-on activities. It's crucial to remember when teaching that all students learn differently, and keeping a healthy balance is important in order for your students to succeed. However, there are some aspects that technology has to offer for students that pencil and paper don't. For example, VR has become a big thing in classrooms recently. VR stands for virtual reality, which allows students to have an out-of-world experience in a way by a goggle-like contraption that goes over your eyes. This could allow students to go to the moon. You could use this as a science lesson plan in the North Carolina Standards, which states I.E.1.1. Recognize differences in the features of the day and night skies and apparent movement of objects across the sky as observed from Earth. Therefore, you could allow students to use the VR and watch as the sun and moon move how the day periods work. By using VR, it allows an experience you couldn't get any other way. Some challenges you could experience could be students becoming too excited and wanting to use VR all the time, so it's important you use it when necessary to get students engaged in the lesson. It's also important to remember to use that healthy option of both technology and hands-on. Since there are such different learners, for example, more people could be more hands-on and prefer more pencil and paper, whereas other people could love working in groups, independent work. So it's just very important as a whole in your classroom to have a healthy balance of all the learning types there are to offer in order for all your students to be successful, because no student is the same and no student learns the same. For example, if you were to use technology too much, students then may find pencil and paper boring and that the normal way of learning becomes boring to them because they're so centered around using an iPad or using the VR and it may not get the same effect or be as efficient anymore. Now we're going to go back to Katie for our final wrap-up of Episode 3. Now that we introduced you to the world of integrating arts and technology, I hope to see many more creative ideas and how you can take what you've learned in our podcast in your classroom. We've learned how to integrate arts and technology, the ways to use it, what to look for, and our challenges. Thank you for listening to our podcast and helping educate our future. We appreciate the support. This is Katie and Chloe with Teachers Teaching Teachers.