The Progressive Teacher Vol 04 Issue 03

New trends
NEW TRENDS IN
ART EDUCATION
E-Learning
In this ever changing world where technology is
evolving rapidly to benefit humankind in all the
sectors, the education domain has also been
benefitted hundredfold. Technology not only
supports pedagogical practices of the teachers
but also helps students to learn how to use it.
–Rupsi Chauhan
Art, basically being a
subject of creativity,
innovation and therapy,
explores the essence connecting
my present class room
activity to a cherished future
project in an innovative way.
Facilitating students through ICT
(Information and Communication
Technology) has proved to be
tremendously helpful as far as
teaching-learning is concerned.
We, as teachers and facilitators,
put in a lot of effort towards
the development of a child with
the aim to minimize the child’s
short comings and enlarge his
vision of life. My contribution
towards the aim was significant
from the moment I came across
children who evidently lacked in
concentration and it also made
Art lessons interesting for the
few talented ones who require
more competence.
Though the periodically
changeable display of the
Art Works in the Art room
is an effective teaching aid,
but problems like better
concentration, more ideas
pertaining to the topics, saving
time, energy and economical
demos of a particular Art
form were the reasons to take
a decision to use ICT in my
curriculum of Art Education as
technology is also an effective
medium to register the topic in
the minds in an impressive way.
With the aim to make young
minds aware of the causes
and working in the projects in
yesteryears like Ethnic Roots,
Go Global, Cultural Exchange
Programme, Nurture Nature,
Save Environment and Swachh
Bharath etc. ICT has proved a
boon to this endeavour. Children
have become more resourceful
and have been able to reach
their roots and have been able
to connect globally. They have
benefited intellectually and learnt
new things.
Preparations for internal and
external Drawing and Painting
Competitions from information
about competitions through
e-mails till sending the works,
online competitions, press release
of Art related articles, paintings,
etc. are very important aspects
Rupsi Chauhan is working in
Kendriya Vidyalaya D.R.D.O Bangalore
as an Art Education teacher for
the past 15 years for the promotion
of drawing skills and creativity in
children. Her art curriculum consists
of topics related to current issues on
Environment and Energy to bring
awareness in the minds of the young
ones. She has served as a judge in
various art competitions and is a member of the panel for
selection of art teachers in local schools. Twice she was
invited as art educator from India to the Art Festival held
in Washington D.C, U.S.A.in 2012 and 2015.
She has made a 6.38 minute 2D animation film on Nurture
Nature. She is a science graduate and studied Art from
Kala Kendra, Dehradun (BFA) . She has served as a
resource person for the in-service course for art education
teachers held in January 2016 at ZIET, Mysore.
She has written six articles on different aspects of art for
NIE, Times of INDIA in the past four years.
Drawings on SAVE ENERGY-2016
Satakshi Tiwari - 8D
Bhavanjali - 6B
Namratha APH - 6D
Suhani Kedar - 7A
R. Divya - 8C
Bindsi Sarangi - 10D
which cannot be ignored.
As facilitators our aim is to
instill in students concentration,
power of observation, ability to
judge, improve their output in
the form of their performance
in academics and other cocurricular
activities. Art, now a
co-scholastic subject, supports
all the subjects and helps the
child in his all round personality
development.
All the above factors motivated
me to think about a project
which will be useful to young
minds to become more creative,
to concentrate better, become
more observant, consider fine
details of everything that they
see, become more aware of new
technology and understand its
benefits for the future.
CONCLUSION
As the world advances with the
advent of new technology, the
Art Department in the school
should also adopt new trends
in education, use technologies
and keep pace with the changing
world by making changes in
the training methods at the
Art Centre/Art Room in the
schools. Over the years I have
Namratha APH - 7D
DRAWINGS DONE BY THE STUDENTS ON THE TOPIC-
HAPPINESS SENT TO HONK KONG IN 2015
K Priyadarshini - 8C
Parnica - 9D
been working on many useful
projects which are supported by
Information and Communication
Technology. The outstanding
results have proved that these
applications should continue and
many more projects pertaining to
the same should be encouraged.
I have observed that with
the introduction of ICT in
the Art room, the attitude of
slow learners has changed
tremendously. They have become
active and have started taking
part in different activities inside
and outside the school.
All children were found to be
very enthusiastic to know more
about its applications in other
subjects also and wanted to learn
many new things like animation.
They also want to take it up as
one of the career options.
Following suggested projects can
be taken up under this scheme-
1. Improvement in concentration
level of slow learners.
2. Discovery of ART form which
is diminished as time passes.
3. E-Strategy Targets.
4. ART is a Ventilator (Working
with especially differentlyabled
individuals)
58 The Progressive Teacher Jul/Aug 2017