ISTE Standards for teachers

Standard 1.a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

This first standard listed in the ISTE Standards for teachers seems to capture the spirit of why we even need to ensure technology learning in school.  It is part of why I think technology is such an important piece of modern artistic practice, and in arts education. Learning technology is about facilitating a kind of thinking, and even a learning mindset, not about specific tools or media.

In my classroom, I am still striving to support creative and innovative thinking through simple and complex tasks. I want to leave students space to "figure out" new technologies and solutions to the problems we encounter as artists.