ARTISTIC LITERACY

ARTISTIC LITERACY

❑ the knowledge and understanding required to

participate authentically in the arts
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❑ Artistic literacy requires that ❑ Artistic literacy require that
individuals engage in artistic individuals engage in artistic
creation processes directly creation processes in specific
through the use of spaces like

clay

concert halls and stages

charcoal musical
instruments
dance rehearsal art studios
stages
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Characterizing Artistically Literate Individuals
▪ Use of variety of artistic media, symbols and metaphors to
communicate their own ideas and respond to the artistic
communications of others

▪ Develop creative personal realization in at least one art form in

which they continue active involvement as an adult

▪ Cultivate culture, history, and other connections through diverse

forms and genres of artwork
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Characterizing Artistically Literate Individuals

▪ Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, and meaning

when they participate in the arts

▪ Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in their communities

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➢ Creativity is the process of having original ideas that

have value.
➢ Creativity is the ability to see the world in new ways.
➢ Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative
ideas into reality.

➢ Creativity involves two processes: thinking and

producing.
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To enhance creativity skills, a person must adhere to the seven habits of highly
creative people.

➢ Prepare the ground. Creativity requires an absorbed mind, a relaxed

state of focus and attention by giving self sufficient time and space
needed.

➢ Plant seeds for creativity. Put attention on what you want to create,
not on complaints, and set an intention to produce the desired
results.
➢ Live in the question. Ask questions, instead of trying to find
immediate answers and pay attention to questions that other people
ask.
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To enhance creativity skills, a person must adhere to the seven habits of highly
creative people.

➢ Feed your brain. Get interested in something that later can provide
wisdom and ideas.
➢ Experiment and explore. Follow curiosity, experiment with ideas,
and learn from your mistakes.
➢ Replenish your creative stock. Learn to be self- nourishing and
translate hobbies, talents and skills into wonderful potentials.
➢ Liberate your creativity. Let child’s play provide the clue to your
creativity, potentials and passion.
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Eye- Hand Coordination
➢ The coordinated control of eye movement with hand movement
and the processing of visual input to guide teaching.

Activities where eye- hand coordination can be observed.

➢ Movement of objects ➢ Music

➢ Handwriting ➢ Reading
➢ Catching a ball ➢ Computer gaming
➢ Sports ➢ Typing
➢ Performances ➢ Others
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Eye- Hand Coordination
➢ The ability of the vision system to coordinate the information
received through the eyes to control, guide, and direct the hand sin
the accomplishment of a given task.
Examples of eye- hand coordination
➢ In writing. When making ➢ In typing on a keyboard. Although
lines, the eyes send the types of movement are
visual information to the different, visual information is used
brain to tell where the to tell the brain how to guide the
hand is placed and if hand or if a mistake needs to be
handwriting is legible. corrected.
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Examples of eye- hand coordination
➢ When driving. It uses
visual information to
move the hands on the
wheel, keeping the car in
the middle of the lane
and avoiding accidents.
➢ In sports. In any sports, the eyes
usually coordinate with the
movement of some parts of the
body called “motor coordination”.
Depending on the sport, either
hand- eye coordination (basketball,
tennis, football, etc.) or foot- eye
coordination (soccer, track, etc.) will
be more dominant.
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Problems and disorders related to poor eye- hand coordination

➢ Vision impairment. ➢ Movement disorders. These are

It is a loss of vision characterized by impaired body
that makes it hard movements caused by variety of causes,
or impossible to such as ataxia, which is characterized by
perform daily tasks lack of coordination while performing
without specialized voluntary movements; and hypertonia, a
adaptations. condition marked by an abnormal
increase in muscle tension and a reduced
ability of the muscle to stretch.
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Integrating Arts and Creativity Literacy into the Curriculum
➢ Physical environment. Design a physical environment to support
creativity.
examples: castle- designed classrooms, beautiful
garden landscape, colorful blocks and benches in a garden
➢ Emotional environment. Take time to create and maintain a
climate of respect, caring and support to someone when making
mistakes.
➢ Project- based learning (PBL). Design and plan any project that
are relevant, rigorous and real- world to attain motivation,
engagement and learning.
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Integrating Arts and Creativity Literacy into the Curriculum
➢ Teach creative thinking skills. Teach students about
metacognition through the process of brainstorming, reasoning,
comparing, analyzing, evaluating and more.
➢ Alternative assessments. Provide different authentic assessment
like performance, systems design, product/ output- making,
visual arts creation, portfolios and others provided with rubrics
and other forms of metrics.
➢ Scheduling. Project- based curriculum and performance- based
assessments need ample time and proper scheduling in either
structured or unstructured manner.
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Integrating Arts and Creativity Literacy into the Curriculum
➢ Student- centered and personalized learning. Provide students
freedom to choose on what they will learn, how they will learn it
and how they will demonstrate what they have learned.
➢ Incorporate arts. Integrate music, art, drama and dance into the
curriculum.
➢ Integrate technologies. Encourage students to create and utilize blogs
and websites and other forms of technology.
➢ Prepare the body and brain for creativity. Create activities that induce
body- mind integration, such as yoga, ballet, jazz, etc.
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Share a personal
experience in which you
created an artwork or
presented a
performance that was
critiqued by others.
What life lessons and
values have you
realized and learned?