EDUCATOR GUIDES

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NEW MEDIA

Art Meets Nature: Natalie Jeremijenko

This Educator Guide explores conceptual art as well as the investigative and ethical issues of life science and cloning.
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Educational Tool: Approaching Your Bias

This Educational Tool provides tips for facing the inherent challenges of teaching about contemporary artists and their work.
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Educational Tool: Arts Assessment

This educational tool describes the role of assessment in a standards-based visual and performing arts classroom. This document also provides several options for substantive forms of assessment in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Connections, Relations and Applications

This educational tool provides direction for making connections between the various arts disciplines, between the arts and other subject areas, and careers in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Developing Arts Programs

This educational tool is a comprehensive list of foundations and organizations offering funding for arts education programs in Northern California.
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Educational Tool: Literacy-Based Instructional Strategies

This Educational Tool provides literacy-based instructional strategies that may be used in conjunction with arts media screenings in the classroom.
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Educational Tool: Media Tips

This Educational Tool provides techniques for using Spark in the classroom including critical viewing tips, media production terms and concepts, and talking points about media production and media literacy.
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Educational Tool: Multiple Intelligences

This Educational Tool describes Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how it relates to Spark's educational programming and resources.
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Shaken and Stirred: Scott Snibbe

This Educator Guide is about the digital and new media art and the historic interplay between art and science and technology.
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Spark 504: David Hevel

This Educator Guide includes a hands-on subversive collage activity and discussion points related to popluar culture and the influence of historical art traditions on contemporary art practices.
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Spark 505: Adam5100

This Educator Guide discusses Aboriginal art practices and includes hands-on activities related to political printmaking and a critical writing assignment.
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Spark 510: Jesus Aguilar

This Educator Guide includes a brief history of media art and analytical activties related to audience responses to this ever-growing genre of visual art.
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Technophiles: Ken Goldberg