Visual Arts and Critical Thinking Skills

How visual arts can build critical-thinking skills – Edutopia

Education in the visual arts can be an avenue for building students’ critical-thinking skills, writes blogger Andrew Miller, a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education. Miller points to two examples of this, including one in which students at a California school created an art piece to symbolize a better representation of an atom for a chemistry project. Edutopia.org/Andrew Miller’s blog (11/2)

Andrew Miller (@betamiller on Twitter) is a National Faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education, an org that specializes in project-based curriculum, and a collaborator with Abeo School Change, committed to make powerful learning a reality for every student. He is also a regular blogger for Edutopia.