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A Star*Spangled Summer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Additional Resources: Links
and information you can use this summer |
| Connecting American Art and Picture
Books Allison Day, the Youth and Family Programs Manager at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, presented a workshop session highlighting ways to bring picture and story books together with artwork to make your story hours a richer experience. She has graciously allowed us to post her handout and bibliography here. Handout: Connecting American Art and Picture Books |
| Visual Thinking Strategies
(VTS) Erica Wall, the MFA's Head of School Programs, presented a session introducing the basics of VTS, a technique that uses visual arts to help develop critical analytical skills. Here are some links to additional sources of information about VTS and example of VTS: Visual Understanding in Education: This website introduces the research of Abigail Housen and others, linking the VUE concept with a comprehensive overview of uses of VTS and the development of VTS theory and practice. http://www.vue.org/ Art Safari: The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA) has developed this fun interactive web site using VTS to encourage kids to write and save their own stories about art works. http://artsafari.moma.org Visual Thinking Strategies: Slavery in the United States (Mark Foley's EdPsych 490 Major Project.) Mark Foley, an educator from Urbana Middle School in Illinois, conducted this interactive research project in the summer of 2001. While the data collection stage of his project is over and the results have been documented, his interactive web site is still live and presents a deeply thought-provoking, participatory experience with actual VTS method. Try it and see! http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/mfoley/490new/main.html Strategies for Teaching Critical Thinking. Bonnie Potts, ERIC/AE Digest. VTS is inextricably linked to educational theories of development. This article explores three specific stages in the enhancement of critical thinking in children, giving concrete examples of activities and steps for each stage. http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed385606.html |
| MFA Family
Programs Museum Teachers Francisco Mendez-Diez, Kathleen Lomatoski, and Nicola Sarn presented a session on the many interactive programs and classes the MFA has available for children, teens, and whole families. Here is more information on these programs: http://www.mfa.org/education/childrenteenfamily.htm |
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