Chapter Four Question # one

1. After considering the various types of digital technologies presented in this chapter, what three pieces of equipment do you think you would most want for your future or current classroom? Explain why you selected these three and how you would use them for teaching and learning.
As everyone knows by now I want to become an elementary school art teachers. My first piece of equipment that I would love to have for my classroom would be a digital camera. I would want my camera to have Mircodrive so my students and I can take hundreds of pictures before we have to download them to the computer. Digital cameras have a small LCD screen on the back of the camera so you can see what you have just taken for a picture. Having the students being able to see if their photo came out the way they wanted it is important. Its important because they are going to be working with that image. This would be great for my art room because my students can actually go outside or inside and take pictures of things that they actually would want to work with. Either it being a simple drawing or a collage.
Another great piece of equipment that I would LOVE to have would be a graphic tablet. This device allows you to use a stylus (a pen-shaped device) with an electronic pad to draw diagrams and also allows you to create artwork!!! Its almost like a key board typing words onto your computer screen but it’s a plastic board that that you can draw on that shows up on the computer screen. This would be such a wonderful tool to use in my art work. My students could draw original images, enhance computer-generated images and photographs. The students would have so much fun and then can create graphic designs and incredible digital artwork.
My last request would be a Scan converter. These devices display computer images to the entire class on a large classroom television monitor. This would be great for my classroom cause I can display artist work large so that the class can see what famous artist have done throughout history. It will give my students ideas, inspire them, show them the wonders of art history, and no one will even have to leave their seats or complain that they can’t see!