There’s something mystical, intriguing, and overwhelmingly loved by my sixth-grade students: dragons! Students adore depicting dragons, whether I ask them to draw entire dragons or focus on drawing their detailed faces. When COVID-19 safety protocols continued to have an impact on the sharing of art supplies, it was an easy transition from using oil pastels to Chromebooks to create these dramatic gradient dragon eyes.
Art teachers share lessons that focus on media arts, digital processes, and new technologies. Students design and develop meaningful side-scrolling video games, learn light painting techniques to capture long-exposure photographs, turn 2D drawings into 3D-printed models, create a digital floral folk-art piece inspired by their heritage, and more.
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