Arts Thread

Description: Play Art Game is a mobile application for K-5 families, providing an immersive learning experience in museums. It offers personalized journeys based on kids' interests, featuring role-playing tasks such as zookeeper, chef, and more to make learning enjoyable. The gamified app empowers families to explore museum collections while seamlessly integrating subject knowledge. Notably, this interactive experience has undergone usability testing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, ensuring its quality and effectiveness. Background: Chia-Hsuan (Cathy) Tung's thesis project, "Well-rounded: Using Art to Enhance Interdisciplinary Learning," sheds light on the potential of art-integrated education to promote the development of both hard and soft skills in children. Cathy highlights that traditional education, confined within classroom walls, can be mundane and unstimulating for children to engage with. Conversely, incorporating resources from art museums as a location-based learning tool can provide an interactive and engaging experience, offering opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. This approach can ease budget constraints on art education in public schools, particularly in the aftermath of budget cuts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Description: Play Art Viewer is an interactive educational tool designed for children in grades K-2, aimed at promoting observation skills and curiosity through exploring artworks. This tool comprises two distinct features. The first wheel enables children to observe artworks from different perspectives and discover different shapes, facilitating a deeper understanding of geometry and patterns. The second wheel focuses on colors, allowing children to express their creativity and learn how to communicate their feelings through art. The modular design enables children to use each wheel individually, or they can customize the tool to learn color theory in a way that is most engaging and relevant to them. Background: Chia-Hsuan(Cathy) Tung's thesis project, Well-rounded: Using Art to Enhance Interdisciplinary Learning, sheds light on the potential of art-integrated education to promote the development of hard and soft skills in children. Cathy highlights that traditional education, confined within classroom walls, can be mundane and unstimulating for children to engage with. Conversely, incorporating resources from art museums as a location-based learning tool can provide an interactive and engaging experience that presents opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. This approach can also address the budgetary constraints public schools face in providing adequate art education, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated budget cuts.

Description: The Play Art Toolkit is a card toolkit designed for K-5 students that combines art-integrated pedagogy with the Elementary School Learning Standards established by the NYC Department of Education. This toolkit aims to assist parents in teaching their children at home in a flexible teaching style that can be adjusted to suit their individual preferences. The toolkit consists of a step-by-step guide that follows seven steps: preparation, guide, look, know, think, create, and share. Background: Chia-Hsuan(Cathy) Tung's thesis project, Well-rounded: Using Art to Enhance Interdisciplinary Learning, sheds light on the potential of art-integrated education to promote the development of hard and soft skills in children. Cathy highlights that traditional education, confined within classroom walls, can be mundane and unstimulating for children to engage with. Conversely, incorporating resources from art museums as a location-based learning tool can provide an interactive and engaging experience that presents opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. This approach can also address the budgetary constraints public schools face in providing adequate art education, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated budget cuts.