Sara L., grade eight

Ingrid Fake

Maintaining a quality art program for middle-school students while learning about art in a blended model requires inventiveness, patience, adaptability, and imagination. Art teacher Lauren Conti’s video “Woven Optical Illusion in Google Drawings” (see Resource) serves as the inspiration for this lesson. Because the Google Drawings app is included with the Chromebook and can be used in Google Classroom, this art teacher and her students, no matter where or when, have the materials and resources they need to be their best artistic selves.

Transforming Education
For the first time at our middle school, all students have a 1:1 ratio with the Chromebook and Google Classroom. These Chromebooks are a real game-changer in art education, as students are no longer dependent upon the teacher to learn a skill or concept in real-time. Students get to see the details up close, replay demonstrations, and become increasingly self-directed.

Students created woven optical illusions they were proud of and gained owner-ship over their learning in the process.

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