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  • Wayside Sci-Tech Middle & High School
  • Austin, TX
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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We are a Title I school, but also an IB school, and we require our scholars to push themselves and challenge their minds and thinking. Often, our students do not have the material resources they need to take their learning into their own hands. The tablets and protective cases provided will give my students a variety of abilities. These include searching different images and techniques, taking quality pictures that they can edit and draw from, saving images for reference as we work on projects that require long-term focus and creating digital art with different applications and programs. Scholars in my classroom will be able to take control of and individualize their learning and artistic abilities by creating studies based off of their specific areas of interest. Access to the internet in the classroom will allow for our scholars to broaden their ability to research artists, art techniques, time periods, and experiment with different styles based off of these techniques and master artists. Due to limited access to the internet and technology, in order for scholars to reference pictures, I pull up a couple images at a time and project on the board for scholars to reference and draw from, which serves the interest of less than 1/4 of the class. Scholars can not complete research projects, search images to draw off, or create digital art. Not all scholars are served and able to grow artistically when they have such limited resources. One of the best ways for young artists to grow their skills is to learn how to draw what they see, and not what their brain thinks something should look like. Without images to reference, scholars become very limited in what they can create outside of the abstract realm and end up losing valuable time.

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We are a Title I school, but also an IB school, and we require our scholars to push themselves and challenge their minds and thinking. Often, our students do not have the material resources they need to take their learning into their own hands. The tablets and protective cases provided will give my students a variety of abilities. These include searching different images and techniques, taking quality pictures that they can edit and draw from, saving images for reference as we work on projects that require long-term focus and creating digital art with different applications and programs. Scholars in my classroom will be able to take control of and individualize their learning and artistic abilities by creating studies based off of their specific areas of interest. Access to the internet in the classroom will allow for our scholars to broaden their ability to research artists, art techniques, time periods, and experiment with different styles based off of these techniques and master artists. Due to limited access to the internet and technology, in order for scholars to reference pictures, I pull up a couple images at a time and project on the board for scholars to reference and draw from, which serves the interest of less than 1/4 of the class. Scholars can not complete research projects, search images to draw off, or create digital art. Not all scholars are served and able to grow artistically when they have such limited resources. One of the best ways for young artists to grow their skills is to learn how to draw what they see, and not what their brain thinks something should look like. Without images to reference, scholars become very limited in what they can create outside of the abstract realm and end up losing valuable time.

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