kidsmuse, a digital exploration of the arts The Learning Partnership of Greater Toronto
Elements:
Shared Values,Systems,Skill
Year: 1999
1 Dundas Street West, P.O. Box 79, Suite 504 Toronto Ontario M5G 1Z3 416-204-4478 416-204-4378 info@tlp.on.ca
HONOURABLE MENTION FOR 1999
Kidsmuse is a project which immerses students in integrated programs of arts and technology. It incorporates art in the broadest form (visual, drama, dance, design and modelling, architecture and graphic communications) as the content, with technology as a tool, to achieve the outcomes of improved literacy and numeracy skills for students in Grades 1 to 3.
Kidsmuse is changing the way teachers think and teach, and the way children learn and convey ideas and opinions with technology as the application tool for understanding. Ninety–four high performance interactive SGI 02 computers and 94 Hewlett Packard colour scanners have been place in elementary schools across the Greater Toronto Area for use in the kidsmuse project. The challenge is to not operate a machine but to understand how to optimize the technology potential for manipulating ideas and images to engage children in learning and to liberate the human potential in every child. Arts and Technology draw on different kinds of intelligences, different ways of thinking and knowing. Technology provides access to a new world of resources to enhance student learning. Involvement in the kidsmuse project will enable each child to answer the question: How are you smart? Instead of: How smart are you?
The Learning Partnership was established in 1993 to bring together business, education and community leaders who share a vision of an education system that provides all children with the greatest opportunity. The aim of the partnerships we create is to excite and challenge our kids to learn and encourage caring adults to grow by sharing their ideas, talents and resources.
