imagininglearning:

 Art gives young people the means to express and unleash their true potential! Tests on the other hand limits their expression to fit neatly on a scan tron. We choose art!

You should see how young people dream when we give them paint and a blank canvas to vision their ideal education in our listening session.

Imagining Learning is working with young people to transform #edu using Art, storytelling +voice! Watch this video to see our listening session process! http://bit.ly/15IE8P6

imagininglearning:

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
~Thomas Merton

Imagining Learning

imagininglearning:

“Creativity is Contagious. Pass it on!” Albert Einstein

Imagining Learning is creating a national collective voice on the wisdom of young people on how they would reinvent education. Pass It On! ~ Charlie Kouns

Source (Imagining Learning)

Pass it On!

imagininglearning:

Tree of Life: A Youth Vision from Imagining Learning Listening Session — at Operation Upward.

“And Children make Art Powerful! We choose art as the media of choice for Listening sessions because we believe deep wisdom is unlocked through art!”-Imagining Learning

Process Board Project

I brought in a board about 4x2 feet that I painted white. Then offered a range of art materials including paint, glue and glitter and just let the children paint and explore the materials. We would then display their creation for a week or so and then I would take it home and paint it white again.

Then we started the process again. As the process went on, the board started to tell a story in textures and paint. Each layer told a story of the students process. I tried to talk to the children about the process of painting and the process of time and history. My goal was for the children to get a sense that often the process is more important than the final piece.

Here is a few pictures of the textures and the process…

After the year was over I took the painting home with all the layers and created a final abstract painting that played off the layers and textures of the paint. I envision it telling the historical story of a chalk board.

-Adventures in Learning

(via Teaching: Art or Science? « Cooperative Catalyst)

“If teaching is art, then it comes down to the question of how artists hone their craft, and not only that, but how art itself progresses to more advanced and complex stages. Artists working in isolation, I would suggest, do not progress on average as fast or as far contrasted with artists working as members of communities of artists. Why is that so? Transfer of information. Artists share technique. They talk about it. They view others’ work and emulate what they like about it. They build on what has come before them, they partake of and contribute to advances in the technologies used by their art. If this were not so, art would not progress. The advent of perspective in European painting in the 13th and 14th centuries would not have evolved into what it is today – it would have to be re-created by each artist. And paint would still be the iron oxide, black manganese, and other mineral pigments used on cave walls by pre-modern-humans. And how do we account for art classes? And teaching schools?” -Aaron Eden

via (IDEA: The Institute for Democratic Education in America)

ebjell:

Take me here. It seems easier

This is my second favorite comment some one has posted on my picture above. I am glad people connect to it. My dream is to do a children’s book based on this drawings. The underwater picture I post before is connected to this piece… The red submarine is in both.

Also I often work on these when I am working with Elementary age kids. The kids love them, which makes a perfect transition to doing a project around cities and art. I actually created a Project based Learning outline based on these that included the use of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. If anyone is interested in it, I can share it.

Creating that, made me realized project can come from anywhere, both your students passions and your own. Passion begets Passion. Also Younger kids love to see adults doing work they love.

for more of my art see my blog (David Loitz’s Art Dream)

-adventures in learning

(Source: artdreamsdloitz)

cooperativecatalyst:

“Is it possible that art is the answer?”

“A student from a few years ago created this video. I felt affirmed that we were doing something right in social studies by including the arts:”

(via John Spencer’s post The Real Reason for the Arts « Cooperative Catalyst)

royaltorch:

When I first began my grad program, I had to watch this video in order to complete an assignment for my Arts and Education course.

It’s been on my mind recently and with all my new education friends on here, I had to share.  

:) 

Watch this short but powerful video! I been thinking a lot about how adults’ fears impact our education system and how we interact with children… this video highlights it perfectly!

Thanks to all my followers for sharing in my Adventures in Learning! Pretty insane to reach over 7000, I am humbled, Thank you!

I always welcome conversation, discussion, and push back, feel free to message me. 

Tumblr is one of my favorite learning communities!

You can also find me at

Human Centered Schools

Occupy Education

Cooperative Catalyst

Daydreams of David

Adventures in Listening

David Loitz’s Art Dreams

Also at

Cooperative Catalyst Wordpress

Occupy Education on facebook

occupyedu:

I occupy education:

Creativity & Connection & Art & Joy & Grit in a Studio Environment.

Children have a right to create culture instead of consume it!

http://atelier.schoolwithinschool.org