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A PROGRAM FOR MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN ART EDUCATION

"There are new virtual working models in art that demand changes in traditional curriculum. We are particularly interested in how new media and virtual learning systems can dovetail to the traditional classroom experience and how it can enhance, extend and inspire art making."
Jen Hall, Faculty and Coordinator
Graduate Program, Art, Education and New Media
jenhall@massart.edu

Artists, Educators, Designers and Education Researchers will learn to critique and develop new media projects in educational settings from an artistic point of view. The medium is constantly evolving so any definition or description cannot be encapsulated or definitive, and some of the ways that we perceive what computers do or how they should be used in education must come from sources of knowledge about art making, teaching and the world in general. This must be a true partnership between understanding the medium and other kinds of knowledge.

Technology is a very broad term, encompassing a range of inventions from stone axes to digital counters, and includes media as a form of communication. Media is a stronger and more focused term than technology and a good description of what we should use technology for in education. The techniques of New Media incorporate sound, picture, time, space and distance; it can also be non-linear or interactive.

Access to state of the art media facilities at Massart includes multimedia, digital animation, desktop video and smart classrooms where graduate students can take classes, experiment with classroom models, create new media work and develop new creative laboratory experiences for art education.

Many educational settings incorporate new media in the learning environment. In structures such as distance learning, the educational environment is entirely determined by the media. Our graduates who want to actively participate in these developing educational settings must be fluent in the theoretical and practical applications of new media as well as educational theory and practice.

Learning how to use computer technology is important, but is not the whole picture. Graduate programs should endorse a more universal perspective beginning with educational goals, then what computers can do. We should not limit our imaginations to current technology or existing software applications.

Program Details

Mass College of Art | 621 Huntington Avenue | Boston, MA. USA 02115

	Graduate Students Make Robots Fred Wolfink works with Art Education Students to develop art making robots. VIEW
	Virtual/Physical Show Ideas for art teachers integrating computer technology into their classrooms VIEW
	Visiting Scholar Program Presentation Schedule VIEW
ÝMassart Links
DOE Educator Services www.mass.gov/doe/educators Massarted.org www.massarted.org Art Education interactive webspace MassArtEd Online www.moodle.massarted.org/moodle/ Courseware for art educators. In development Fall 2004 The AEContent Network aecontent.net The virtual drop-in center for art educators. Resources include galleries, discussion, lesson plans, weblinks, events and more.