092 Starting Point with Digital Art by Chris Cocek

2025-02-25 21:06:55 UTC

I often include music in my lessons. I have found that my EAL learners tend to feel more comfortable singing than speaking. Having students sing about their sight words, the days of the week, skip counting by 2s, etc seems to help them retain new information.

2025-02-25 21:08:37 UTC

With art, we have used it a bit to help tie in some concepts in our integrated subjects. For Social Studies a while ago we made quill art. We also use it in science to help explain what we are seeing in experiments. I also use art in our brainstorming lessons when writing to support my students who need some support developing their ideas.

2025-02-25 21:08:42 UTC

I use a lot of digital art in the classroom due to the quick nature of some of the work time in our one hour block for Core French. To take out colours and paints or more intense art projects it would be constant cleaning and mess that I simply can't handle on a weekly basis 😂

I have been able to find some neat drawing websites, but the one that has persisted through the years is https://sketchpad.app/ which has a ton of neat features for drawing! Students really love all the elements you can add to drawing and have a lot of fun playing around with it.

2025-02-25 21:08:44 UTC

Current example: students in our school created African Heritage Month projects using digital art through videos and photos. They have created buttons for people to wear using digital art.

2025-02-25 21:09:24 UTC

Last year with my grade 3s we did mosaic digital art with math - they had to solve a math equation to reveal the color of a number in the mosaic - sort of like a virtual color by number. Currently with my primaries, we do physical art every Wednesday afternoon, usually with paint or another fun medium. As far as digital art, they use the drawing tools in Raz to highlight sight words and circle tricky words. We also have been slowly making our class into Lego people - one at a time, all together.

taylorwitty — 2025-02-25 21:09:25 UTC

We usually include art in our ELA studies, often to connect visuals to pieces that the students create. We also do art two or three times a month focused on building art skills (clay, painting, etc). We've just begun using digital art in the classroom!

2025-02-25 21:09:54 UTC

In my Grade 1/2 classroom, I incorporate a variety of art activities to strengthen students’ fine motor skills, including painting, directed drawings, crafts, comic-making, and STEM-based building projects. However, we haven't explored digital art yet.

Devon Weaden

2025-02-25 21:09:56 UTC

I often will use digital art cross curricularly. Students have created pixel art integrated with fractions and decimals. I will often use digital art in my morning meeting slides as check ins for students to express how they are feeling. At the beginning of the year we talk about our "learning superpowers" and many students often share that they are artistically inclined, so allowing them to have choice as digital art to show what they have learned. Students will often lean towards more creative choices like WeVideo and Canva when demonstrating what they learned.

2025-02-25 21:10:39 UTC

I include art in my primary social group. I am hoping to include more though!

awiltonhornby — 2025-02-25 21:10:39 UTC

I used art when I am doing indigenous perspectives whether in Cit 9, Canadian History, Law or Mi'kmaw Studies. We have made wampum belts online in all classes. I learn to bead via Youtube and we made bracelets on looms. We made the Mi'kmaq stars with paint and toothpicks, we have done drawings in the style of Mi'kmaw artists like Alan Sylliboy. I would like to integrate more digital opportunities.

In Math, we would do digital art to solve equations and it would draw pictures based on the correct answers. Students also have the opportunity to express learning through art. I had one student that did his understanding of a concept through a performance of a song he created and a guitar.

2025-02-25 21:11:32 UTC

Have used Google Draw with Chris to do various Shapegrams, and Indigenous-inspired art pieces in the style of Roy Henry Vickers, CANVA digital LEGO creations (new!), students create pixel characters from their independent reading in Bloxels when creating video game levels to showcase their plot, characters, setting, etc., using CANVA students create a thumbnail for their Podcasts