Media Arts in Child's Education: A Creative Exploration

This essay explores the integration of media arts in child education, highlighting its transformative impact on learning and development. It examines how interactive media, such as videos, animations, and digital tools, provide children with new avenues for creativity and expression, especially for those who may struggle with traditional literacy. The essay emphasizes the importance of technology in modern education, showcasing how smart classrooms and digital resources enhance the learning experience by incorporating visual and interactive elements. It also discusses the role of media arts in fostering communication, connecting children with their families and communities, and promoting various art forms like photography and filmmaking. The author reflects on their personal experiences with media arts in education and concludes that media arts offer a distinct approach to learning media literacy, visual literacy, and technology, providing a more engaging and effective educational environment compared to traditional methods.

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Question 8.1
Children in today’s age are growing up in a world very different from their parents,
grandparents, or ours. Today’s world is in the age of technology, where everything can be done
using some form of technology. The technologies around us if used wisely can help our children
learn a lot and build relationships (Wright, 2015). The things that happen around can easily
shape a child’s mind. In this age of technology, interactive media is everywhere. This tool has
become the main media that is assisting in the growth of children in homes, schools, work and in
the community. The technology for communication is used everywhere nowadays. Children
talking to their relatives via Skype has become extremely common. With the advent of
technologies like advanced smartphones and 5G high-speed internet connectivity, the mobility of
such media has increased. It is very common nowadays to find small kids using smartphones or
watching online videos on tablets. The learning potential via the internet is very high due to the
massive amount of data present there. Almost all problems have a solution on the internet. These
media art tools under proper guidance can be used for learning and development of a child.
In the schools nowadays, smart classrooms are widely used. These special classrooms are
equipped with projectors and computers to create a visual interactive learning environment. The
term media arts refers to the visual art forms like video, photographs, animations and music.
They are different from the conventional art forms yet have a connection between them. The
effect of interactive media is that it has a deeper impact on the user than traditional media. The
reason is that unlike traditional static art forms, a child in interactive media forms like videos,
games and animations can communicate with it better and understand it ( McClure et al.,2017).
This art form is especially beneficial for children who cannot read or write. An eight-year-old

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girl who cannot read or write can use a computer to create a beautiful birthday card for her mom.
This birthday card created using a computer is a visual art form or media art. This card may have
text, images or even music attached to it, which is not possible to make with traditional art forms.
In my school during my childhood, we had a special classroom dedicated to media
learning. The classroom had a computer and a projector attached to it. Whatever topic was taught
in the class was showed in video form from YouTube once every week in that special classroom.
This deepened the learning process, as it is harder to forget something that you have seen
visually. However, traditional way of learning using books and notebooks were majorly used
then, but it changed as I grew up. Nowadays in my school, all the classrooms have been changed
to visually interactive smart classrooms where the subject matter is taught using projectors and
media art forms. Hence, I can conclude that media arts involvement gives us a different approach
to learn the several of aspects of media literacy, the arts, visual literacy and technology, which is
not possible in traditional education systems.

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References:
Wright, S. (2015). Children, meaning-making and the arts. Pearson Higher Education AU.
McClure, M., Tarr, P., Thompson, C. M., & Eckhoff, A. (2017). Defining quality in visual art
education for young children: Building on the position statement of the Early Childhood
Art Educators. Arts Education Policy Review, 118(3), 154-163.