Technology and Art
Photography has been an essential part of documenting, visualizing, and appreciating our world. Whether it be a family photo, an ancient tribal ritual, architecture, or nature. The Education Foundation of Little Silver Grant opportunity enabled students to access and demonstrate this ever changing and powerful technology.
In the 1840's W. Talbot combined light, paper, a few chemicals and a wooden box to produce a photographic print. In essence, the foundation for modern film photography. Today, technological advancements and innovations such as the computer have allowed photography to advance from a chemical process to one that entails the involvement of merely bytes, computer chips and mega pixels of information. The sophistication of this technolgy is only advancing and it is essential that our student population stay current with new developments, changing technology and creative outlets.
The benefits of experiencing all aspects of photography with the proper tools embraces student-centred teaching which naturally stimulates students to become active subjects of their own learning, engaged in inquiry, discussion, as well as promote a love of learning, self-confidence, self-discipline and cooperativeness.
In the 1840's W. Talbot combined light, paper, a few chemicals and a wooden box to produce a photographic print. In essence, the foundation for modern film photography. Today, technological advancements and innovations such as the computer have allowed photography to advance from a chemical process to one that entails the involvement of merely bytes, computer chips and mega pixels of information. The sophistication of this technolgy is only advancing and it is essential that our student population stay current with new developments, changing technology and creative outlets.
The benefits of experiencing all aspects of photography with the proper tools embraces student-centred teaching which naturally stimulates students to become active subjects of their own learning, engaged in inquiry, discussion, as well as promote a love of learning, self-confidence, self-discipline and cooperativeness.