What's suddenly wrong with paint and markers?!

Come on art teachers, I'm sure you've heard it somewhere. The proverbial "what's suddenly wrong with paint and markers?" from someone who has no idea what we art teachers are trying to do in our classrooms. We are trying to educate our students in the multitude of ways our students can create art and we are given such a small window of time to do so since we are not a "core" class. Unfortunately, some of our colleagues are hearing similar sentiments even in their core classes as administrators are having trouble moving past the hefty price tag necessary to introduce technology into classrooms. Since many of us educators are hearing that reply, articles like the one below are becoming more and more abundant. We as an education system in the United States are falling below other countries in our hesitancy to provide ample technology to our students. And so, we are tasked in every classroom to find ways to ready our students for the future without the proper tools. In an ideal world, every district would have plenty of funding for every classroom to have technology needed to work through lessons that would push our students to succeed in the future. This blog is a dream for an art room in a district that has an abundance of funding and a hunger for putting technology in our students hands!

Singapore Plows Ahead of U.S. With Technology in Classrooms