Recommendations for Changing Pre-Service Art Teachers’ Negative Attitudes toward Computer-Generated Art Imagery

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Lu, L. (2005). Recommendations for Changing Pre-Service Art Teachers’ Negative Attitudes toward Computer-Generated Art Imagery. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (pp. 2928-2933). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2005
Phoenix, AZ, USA
2005
ISBN 1-880094-55-X
  Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Ian Gibson, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber & Dee Anna Willis
AACE

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Lilly Lu, Iowa State University, USA

Abstract

In their everyday lives, students have become quite familiar with computer-generated art imagery (CGAI). Although art teachers realized that CGAI has become a new art form, some still hold negative attitudes and misconceptions of it. Based on participant responses to CGAI samples, this descriptive study finds that biases are still pervasive among pre-service art teachers, and that such biases impact how pre-service teachers analyze and interpret CGAI. And yet, participants expressed strong intentions to teach computer art in their future classrooms. To counteract such negative attitudes and foster positive and critical perceptions of CGAI, the study recommends ways for improving pre-service art teacher programs, including, requiring computer art production and aesthetics in the curricula, offering computer art pedagogy training, making computer art resources available, and encouraging art educators to gain hands-on computer art experience.

Keywords

• Attitudes
• Teachers
• Fine Arts
• Computers

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