Students are excited to make their own decisions about what to draw on paper and what to design digitally, but they need to learn how to manipulate materials and tools to achieve their desired results. When I decided to revise a traditional self-portrait drawing project into a two-day digital design assignment, I found multiple free online photo editing apps for students to explore. The goal was for students to alter their original self-portrait photo and create a digital collage or poster.
Art teachers share lessons that focus on student choice and Teaching for Artistic Behavior. Students use an everyday material to express their ideas in 2D and 3D form, experiment with digital drawing apps to alter self-portrait images through collage, engage in discussions about race and identity during a color-mixing exploration, participate in hands-on learning stations to investigate symmetry, and more.
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