Triangle youth share their talents on MyNC.com
Learning in and through the arts should be a vital part of every child’s education — no matter where they live or what their background is.
Throughout my life I have thrived off of the arts. Performing and visual arts have always been and will always be a part of my life.
The arts provided skills and knowledge that helped me to develop the creativity and determination necessary to be successful in today’s global information age.
The MyNC.com online community is full of arts education advocates, focusing on the efforts and successes of local organizations, communities, and schools who are all working to keep the arts (in all of their forms) alive in our youth.
I produced this video to demonstrate how Triangle area youth embraced art, culture, technology and new ways of expressing themselves throughout the month of February on MyNC.com.
Do you have positive and inspiring stories, images and video highlighting the smart young people in your communities and schools?? Then GET SMART! Share them on MyNC.com and you may be featured on Smart Talk on MyNC next!
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I certainly believe that the arts are a part of a well-rounded education! There are plenty of studies that demonstrate that the arts increase self-esteem, encourage students to become more active in their communities, and actually even help them do better in standardized testing.
The arts allow students to learn in a variety of ways-kinesthetic, tactile, audio, verbal, etc, which makes what they are studying truly become an hands-on experience they will remember. Students studying Africa will learn so much more by performing African dances, djembe (drumming), singing songs in the native languages, painting Adrinka (textile patterning), and reading African folktales so much more than a lecture and reading a textbook.
We may focus on Math, Science, and Reading/Writing, but what will the students do with this information if we don’t encourage their creativity?