Artizen is interested in creative teaching & learning and ways in which partnerships between practitioners, schools and digital media can play a part in all aspects of this, including personalised learning and teaching for creativity.

“I use the vehicles of film, photography and visual art to facilitate creative teaching and learning. I do this by adopting more of a mentoring approach to create safe environments where problem solving, risk taking and team building can take place in order to build self confidence and enable independent learning”. Fi

Artizen works in collaboration with educators to build sustainable practices and programmes.

Creative technologies can also be used for specific learning outcomes by direct links to themes, concepts and curriculum subjects.

Artizen is also a registered centre for the Arts Council’s Arts Award scheme giving students the opportunity to obtain national qualifications for their participation in arts related activities. Fi is a qualified advisor for this scheme and can offer this ‘structure’ and accreditation to a programme of delivery. For more information about the scheme visit www.artsaward.org.uk

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what are the potential benefits of using digital media as a vehicle for learning?

As well as developing technical skills, processes, business concepts and techniques there are many indirect outcomes:

Teambuilding
Documentary filmmaking and drama provide excellent teambuilding opportunities through working together as a production crew to create an end product.

Problem Solving
Programmes are facilitated rather than ‘taught’ to enable participants to enhance their problem solving skills with a view to building confidence in order to develop independent learning skills.

Confidence Building
As well as enjoying the process, participants are usually surprised and proud of what they produce with digital media and can feel a real sense of completion, especially when the work is presented in a professional way.

Careers development
Particularly for young people, girls can often find it inspirational to see a female working with technology in a creative way within a multimedia environment.

Literacy & Communication
Storytelling in the visual form. By using creative technologies, fact and fiction can be communicated or archived in exciting and unique ways.

“What if imagination and art are not the frost of life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?” Rollo May

Artizen can either work with your existing equipment or can provide all the equipment.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?”
Marrianne Williamson and Nelson Mandela