Technology as arts-based education: Does the desktop reflect the arts? (original) (raw)

2006, Arts Education Policy Review

This article presents a broad pastiche of ideas on the seminal importance of the role of the arts in all forms of new media. Without rich media content imagined by artists, new media remains empty and mechanical like a script in search of a story. The capacity that artists possess, however, to capitalize on new technologies to express images, sounds, thoughts, and feelings, have placed them at the leading edge of meaningful practice. Notwithstanding, educational technologists (ISTE, 2000, 2002) have subordinated the arts as solely information and communications objects possessing little of the artistry required to make meaningful content. The focus of this paper is to provide a formative, critical analysis of the role of the arts in technology and technology education and provide a rationale for arts-based technology education.