To use personal and later, cultural schemas in their most fruitful ways, the crayon and the magic market cannot be abandoned in favor of clicking a mouse, nor can arts education be relegated to second-class status, especially young children. Art teaches students motor skills, about space and depth, about using the world around them in a creative fashion, and helps them see things anew, as well as sharpens their realistic observational skills. Works Cited

Popular magazine:

Dewan, Shalia. (2007, September 17). Using Crayons to Exorcise Katrina.

The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved March 21, 2009 at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/arts/design/17ther.html

Newspaper:

Geracimos, Ann. (2008, August 17). A box of possibilities: Children can learn a lot from colorful world of low-tech...

Washington Times, M.14. Retrieved March 21, 2009, from ProQuest Newsstand database. (Document ID: 1533647331).
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Toku, Masami. (2002, Summer). Children's artistic and aesthetic development: The influence of pop-culture in children's drawings. Presented at the 31st INSEA (International Society for Education through Art) Convention in New York. Retrieved March 21, 2009 at http://www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/vc/Articles/toku/Toku_CAD&AD_INSEA02.html

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Young in art (2007). Art Junction. Retrieved March 21, 2009 at http://www.artjunction.org/young_intro.php

Journal:

Zimmer, Robert (2003, July 29). Abstraction in art with implications for perception.

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 358. 1435, pp. 1285-1291

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