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software designed to mimic traditional painting

Whether they use video or artwork, they still manipulate the medium and create something that’s a story.

It doesn’t matter the age; these kids are so technology adept that all you have to do is show them the basics and they just take off," she said. "I think [technology] can replace some of the traditional forms of art instruction, but I think there’s a need for the tactile feel of clay and paint, and getting dirty–it’s a real need. Until some of the software has a more haptic feel to it, that need is going to continue to be there–and I can take clay and teach something that I can’t teach with a computer program.

Kids who feel confident, engaged, and motivated to learn do not act out.

using classroom management methods to get students to attend to boring lessons is shoveling against the tide.