{"id":79,"date":"2018-11-16T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/?p=79"},"modified":"2018-11-16T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:50:39","slug":"why-is-art-club-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/2018\/11\/16\/why-is-art-club-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Art Club Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I asked a group of students, <strong>&#8220;why is Art Club important?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to ask them &#8220;why is having a Makerspace important?&#8221; but I thought, what is the use of having a Makerspace if students don&#8217;t have the time to use it? So I thought I would focus more on the time they have to create, rather than the space and materials they use to create.<\/p>\n<p>The response was overwhelmingly positive. Students believe Art Club (the <em>time<\/em> to create) is important because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students are allowed to socialize<\/li>\n<li>Students can show off their skills\/excel<\/li>\n<li>Students can express themselves<\/li>\n<li>Students can collaborate<\/li>\n<li>Students can use their imagination<\/li>\n<li>Students get more art time\/really like art<\/li>\n<li>It makes them happy when they are having a bad day<\/li>\n<li>It is interactive<\/li>\n<li>It is fun!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I asked the same group of students what their most URGENT needs were to make our Makerspace\/Art Club more successful, there was a lot of silence. When prompted with &#8220;what materials would you like to see?&#8221;, students were able to give a long list. When asked what else could make this experience better, the only thing students could come up with was <strong>TIME<\/strong>. They want more time to create, more time to use the materials, and more time to work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I asked a group of students, &#8220;why is Art Club important?&#8221; I really wanted to ask them &#8220;why is having a Makerspace important?&#8221; but I thought, what is the use of having a Makerspace if students don&#8217;t have the time to use it? So I thought I would focus more on the time they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/2018\/11\/16\/why-is-art-club-important\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is Art Club Important?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andreahughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}