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Media Arts Education plays a pivotal role in putting a strong, versatile, and creative culture at the heart of contemporary learning in today’s world. It is well known through popular forms of film, television, and digital graphics. Media Arts encompasses a broad range of forms, tools, processes, and genres that are evolving. Media arts products are powerful vehicles for learning that are highly captivating and influence much of what we think and do. Media Arts is relevant to today’s students because it reflects our contemporary, global culture. It provides vehicles for all students to find success and enjoyment in learning and promotes critical thinking processes while engaging, real world activities that make the content more meaningful.
Media Arts Education promotes:
· Academic achievement
· Artistic expression
· Arts and content integration
· Convergence literacy; media, information,
· technological, digital, virtual, emerging
· Creativity and imagination
· Making meaning; relevance
· Pedagogical integrity
· Social relevance and vitality
· Technological mastery; inter-media fluency
· Vocational/entrepreneurial proficiency
Media Arts Education prepares students for success in school, work, and life:
Fine Arts Quick Links Menu: Fine Arts Home Dance and Creative Movement Media Arts Music Theatre Visual Arts
Fine Arts Education Program Consultant Joyce Huser (785) 296-4932 jhuser@ksde.org
Deputy Commissioner Division of Learning Services Brad Neuenswander (785) 296-2303 bneuenswander@ksde.org
Director Career, Standards and Assessment Scott Smith (785) 296-3142 sesmith@ksde.org
Assistant Director Career and Technical Education Stacy Smith (785) 296-0979 slsmith@ksde.org
Assistant Director Graduation Branden Johnson (785) 296-2078 bjohnson@ksde.org
Assistant Director Assessment Beth Fultz (785) 296-2325 bfultz@ksde.org