This your brain on art....

I think I'm going to make one or two more today, since there's no school again. I don't think we'll have school tomorrow either.

So I found this Awesome Book! that I think I'm going to read to all of my classes when we finally start school.

I've been doing a lot of online research about trying to get my classroom more student centered and technological. I want to be able to give my students the chance to create and express themselves while learning new ways to create art that are relevant to the lifestyle they are growing up in...i.e. technology.

I want to create lessons that help them better use the technology in their lives.

I was reading Game Informer Magazine and there was an article called "Art Attack" about a group of artists called iam8bit have taken over Los Angeles gallery world with video-game inspired art. I thought WOW what a better way to get my students engaged.  Showing them how something they play everyday is actually art and can be used to inspire art.  I could have them create a narrative based on what happens in a video game if the game was real life. Like...what does the inside of the huddle look like on Madden, or what's Mario doing inside the warp tunnel? What happens after the Mario Kart races are over?  For high school you could have them create paintings that represent the way they see the game.  Allowing their imaginations to fill in the gaps.  Students can create this work in any materials they have available to them.

Divergent thinking: a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions.

I want to teach my students the importance of Divergent thinking as opposed to Convergent thinking which generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity, for instance in most tasks in school and on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.

Any ideas from any of you out there? Agree/disagree? thoughts??