At an ice-cream booth, Patrick Buckley dished out ice cream to attendees of Maker Faire, a do-it-yourself festival held earlier this month in Austin, Texas. With flavors such as frozen mint cucumber lime and BBQ honey, the treats were far from traditional. Nor were they handchurned the old-fashioned way, with the required hour-long wait before serving.
Mikons is sort of a personal branding site -- you can create logos, crests, and other symbolic images, then have them added to products. This could be a great tool for talking about branding/consumer awareness, learning about symbolism, or making art with students!
This project is a bit old, but an interesting example of artificial intelligence in the subjective realm of art. There's potential for an intelligence like this that could collaborate with beginning studio artists.
Artsonia.com Web site bills itself as "the world's largest kid's art museum."
Schools are using technologies such as digital imaging, animation, and graphic design software to complement and transform their existing art programs.
Cole & Wertsch's discussion of the historical conversation about Piaget
& Vygotsky, the faux differences as well as the substantive differences.
They identify 'cultural mediation' as the crux of Vygotskian thinking on
learning and development
An article about art in preschool lesson plans.