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Madilyn Strentz

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National Board Certified Chicago Public School visual arts teacher since 2006, and working photographer since 2004. Currently building collaborations with visual arts and performing arts disciplines as the Fine Arts Department Chair for Back of the Yards College Preparatory High School. She teaches digital art making and advanced studio arts, while serving on the school’s Instructional Leadership Team to coordinate curricular goals, develop professional development, and coach teachers. Madilyn has presented her curriculum at the National Art Education Association annual conference. She received a BFA in Art Education with concentration in Electronic Imaging at UIC, Chicago in 2006, and an M.Ed in Educational Studies and English as Second Language at UIC, Chicago in 2012.

Awards: National Board Certified Teacher, Adolescent Visual Arts.

Personal Statement

As a digital and mixed media artist, “I predominantly work with layers, and revel in their complexities. I notice the ways in which life permeates through these veils across space and time. My work is often an exploration of my complex identities as a woman: turbulent as the waters of Lake Michigan and yet serene as the ripples of Jenny Lake in the Grand Tetons. I find spirituality in these places, and hope to evoke that essence through my work.”

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Description

Cyberpedagogy introduces pre-service teachers and teaching artists to philosophical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of using emerging technology and media in art making and education. Students will gain a working knowledge of art-making technologies and media appropriate for instruction in the K-12 classroom and informal learning environments. They will investigate how children and adolescents use emerging technologies and media as an outlet for creative self-expression and cultural production. They will consider the dynamic nature of emerging technologies and media, and its ever-changing implications for K-12 art teachers and teaching artists.

Students will explore contemporary artists whose work utilizes, explores, and critiques emerging technologies and media. Students will read texts by contemporary theorists that examine how emerging technologies increasingly mediate social interaction and construct social meaning. Students will explore examples of art curricula that critically incorporates emerging technology and media.

Students in this course will work independently and collaboratively on several art projects using a variety of emerging technologies and media. They will also develop lessons for the K-12 art classroom that integrate the critical use of emerging technologies and media to explore acutely relevant social and cultural issues.

Class Number

1080

Credits

3