Arts Education, Creativity and Innovation: A Bird's Eye View IgniteLansing 4.0 Speaker Rules: There MUST be 20 content slides, 1 title, and 1 closer.  This comes to a total of 22 slides. You may not change the master template. You may add as many images as you wish, but do not completely cover the red or black portions of the slide. Content Slides will be run at 15 seconds.  Timing is already included in this PPT, please do not change it. NO video/animation is allowed within the slides. You may have background music, but you must provide that as a separate MP3 or audio-cd (preferred) before the event. You will be allowed as much time as you need for the title slide. Signal to the booth (Nick) when you are ready to go to your content slides. Ana Luisa Cardona cardona.analuisa@gmail.com

The arts are created with intention, knowledge and skill. The arts make us human and define who we are. Prepare us to create what never was. Inspire us to become the people, community, and nation we best imagine.

The artistic creative process at the center of K-12 arts education in MI The arts are the only academic subject to specifically address the creative process. Every Michigan student are now required to graduate with at least 1 credit in the visual, performing or applied arts.

Creativity leads to innovation.

The arts pay off. 21,000 MI businesses 75000 MI jobs $727 billion on film and digital marketing in 5 years The arts are an economic engine driving more than 21,000 state businesses and more than 75,000 jobs, as documented in 2009 Creative Industries report from Americans for the Arts.”

We want China’s know-how. China wants our creativity. “China's young students lack imagination, creativity. In a survey of 21 countries, the counting ability of Chinese children ranked No.1, while imagination ranked at the bottom and creative ability ranked fifth from the bottom.” We want China’s know-how. China wants our creativity.

The tyranny of numbers, words, and each other. Common Core NCLB Race to the Top AYP MEAPNAEP TEXT LITERACY TITLE 1Reading First STEM

With limited time, the arts get short-changed in school. Before common core…. And under-funded…. Currently no arts ed consultant and never a budget

After all the $ invested…

Narrow agendas bear poor fruit.

Academic silos

Natural connections

Centered on students’ passions A woven curriculum that engages students’ passion and rooted in real world experience

Research Based Creativity Initiatives

Pattern Formation Observing IMAGING ABSTRACTING Pattern Recognition Analogizing Body Thinking MODELING Play Transformation SYNTHESIS

Arts-based & transdisciplinary 13 thinking tools of the world’s most creative people, root-bernstein’s

Join the creativity movement MichiganYouthArts.org ArtServeMichigan.org Arts Education Roundtable Capwiz

The Michigan Film Incentive Video Music Video Games Special Effects

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