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THE BIG QUESTION

How do 21st century and multi-

modal literacies support art
education at the elementary
level?
BACKGROUND
 Art and music allocated 10% of instructional time
 60 minutes per week

 Alberta Initiative for School Improvement-

current cycle focus is student engagement
 Emphasis on differentiation and cross curricular
integration through 21st century and multimodal
literacies
 Dissatisfaction with time allotment and
subservient models of art(s) integration
HAT DOES 21ST CENTURY LITERACY
MEAN?

21st century learners

design, create and communicate critically.

21st century literacy is the ability to

critically analyse, design, create,
collaborate and communicate creatively.
HAT IS MULTIMODAL LITERACY?
Meaning making using the full
spectrum of human expression.
The key features being:
 Student responsibility, choice and opportunity to
exercise creativity
 The arts and technology integrated across the
curriculum
 Differentiated instruction
 Critical thinking and informed viewing
 Creation of images and other art forms that
communicate meaning
HAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF 21ST
CENTURY AND MULTIMODAL LITERACIES FOR
ART EDUCATION?

 Integration
 Technology
 Choice
 Accountability
 Out of school knowledge meets in
school learning
 Partnership of mutual learning
HO DO 21ST CENTURY LITERACIES AND
MULTIMODAL EDUCATION SUPPORT ART
EDUCATION AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL?

 Visual literacy
 Perceiving the world as artists
 Co-equal cognitive integration of art
 Art is sustained and activated
 Choice, freedom to create and
express meaning
HAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE?

 Co-equal cognitive
 Critical, individual, creative
responses
 Appreciation
 Innovative problem solving
 Critical analysis
 Transferable
SCIENCE, LANGUAGE ARTS AND ART:
TREE RESEARCH POSTERS
 Research a particular tree
 Design and create a poster
 Present poster and information

Collaborate, design, create,

communicate and assess
critically
HAT ARE THE OBSTACLES?
 Diffusion
 Subservient art integration
 School art
 Lack of resources
 Lack of knowledge
 Accountability and attention
 Lack of support
 Rigid time allocations
 Pressures of standardised testing
 Teacher·s responsibility
 Apathy
HY DOES THIS MATTER?
 Meaning making
 Support

 Sustained art practices

 Further development

 Transference

 Interacting and understanding

 Drawing meaning

 Generalists and art teachers

 Students are doing it already!

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