Technology also offers lots of opportunities to allow students to really immerse themselves in one of my favorite things- art history! And you can teleconference with museums around the world to have fresh voices and lessons and even digitally explore places you could never get to in real life.
Ideally, I want to teach elementary art in an urban school. These students have so few chances to move around or create things with their own hands, and I think one of the most important and empowering aspects of art education is giving students the ability to create with their hands. This is maybe a goofy story, but when I took a metalsmithing class, the most empowering thing about it for me wasn't using acid baths, or blow torches, or cutting metal, but it was when I learned to make jump rings. It's something so innocuous that it never occurred to me that they were something a person could make. And I want to give students the chance to have that moment when they realize that they can make anything and don't have to rely on store bought items, because I think that's important.
Using something like wikispaces offers students a similar sense of empowerment in creating their own content. Maybe not all of them realize that a person can create their own website, or app, or presentation. I can't say I'll use computers every day in my classroom. Maybe not even most days, because the art room is a good place to get messy and paint and use clay, which you're probably not allowed to do in the rest of the school. But as long as students are designing and creating, that's important for art class too.