iLife a Great Tool for Integrating the "iArts"
Submitted by mott on July 1, 2008 - 08:32
A brief article in the Clarion Ledger recently outlined the success of a program developed by Marcia Daft (coincidentally, a Mac user, as evidenced by her iWeb site) with a grant from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to integrate the arts into learning.
Her method involves integrating song, dance, poetry into subject specific learning. This is not a new technique, just ask the likes of Sesame Street, Grammar Rock or any number of educational kids programming shows.
The Arts Education Partnership, provides some interesting research data on arts in the curriculum to support this integrated pedagogy. For example, students who take arts classes have higher math and verbal SAT scores than students who do not.
What's the point?
The Mac is a perfect tool for a teacher wanting to integrate the arts into the curriculum: make those movies, take those pictures, write those songs!
The evidence is in: iLife improves teaching and learning. Start those Macs, leverage that learning
