The wonder of technology and the arts in classrooms

I'm currently an enrichment teacher in a local elementary school and having modern technology in the classroom brings the world to my student's desks. Anything they can imagine can be accessed easily on the Internet for research and they always have the source material they need when we do a project. Just last week the third graders were working on a project related to the work of Andy Warhol and each of them was asked to pick an object from popular culture to draw or paint. Not all of them could remember exactly what the object they wanted to draw looked like, but we were able to search for the object on the Internet and they project a picture of it in a slide show on a projector in the classroom. This never would have been possible when I was in elementary school twenty years ago and I find it so exciting to lead my students in the safe exploration of our modern world. These days students have the world waiting for them right there in the classroom on devices like computers and Ipads. (Photos taken by Wendy Campbell)