The limits of education on an iPad.

You may have to click the image in order to be able to see it.

Read this article.

Making in the Classroom this post is a reminder to read this article about how learning is more effective when "making" is involved.

Read this book.

This book came highly recommended and this post is a reminder to myself to purchase it, and read.

Teach Like A Champion

Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-Techniques-Students/dp/0470550473/ref=sr_1_fed1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357095362&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+like+a+champion

Field guide:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-Field-Guide/dp/1118116828/ref=sr_1_fed1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1357095362&sr=8-2&keywords=teach+like+a+champion

Laughter in the classroom.

In my educational internet travels the above image popped up. As a lover of humor and generally goofy person I began to wonder if there are any resources that could help me use my sense of silliness in my curriculum. In search of literature on the refined pedagogy of the comedian I unearthed the following:

Learning through Laughter: Humor in the Classroom - a book which is sadly not in our library. Christmas is just around the corner. If any one of my 3 readers wanted to track this down and buy it for me I would be oh so grateful. :-)

http://www.humorworks.com/video.php - a video created by an author (who happens to hold a PhD in...something) about the value of humor. Haven't watched it yet, but it's on the do list.

Laugh and Learn: Humor and Learning a Second Language - not specific to teaching art but there is bound to be something I can use in there...I skimmed this document, it is full of charts and graphs, which are all very not-humorous. I will save this and my other gold nuggets above for when my schedule is isn't so...."end of the semester-y".

Do you forget things?

Being forgetful is a fact of life. I just discovered lumosity.com - a sort of gym for working your memory out. This is the sort of extracurricular activity I will encourage my students to do, because challenging your brain is always a good thing.

Are you a writer?

A friend of mine was telling about he stays motivated to complete writing by using a resource called nanowrimo. I was immediately intrigued. I wonder if this sort of resource could be modified to help students work on a longterm art project in someway.

If you're a writer and you're interested in this sort of resource, check it out:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

What are you going to do after graduating?

Are you worried or unsure of how your career will start after graduating, especially since us art education majors are continuously reminded of the unlikelihood of our employment? Well, if you are in or near the NYC area consider getting involved with Young Audiences New York (yaNY). yaNY offers in and out of school creative experiences to students at every level. This is something I am considering exploring post-graduation. Good luck!