Exploiting Information Technology to Enhance Effectiveness in Elementary School Art Education

Abstract In elementary schools, art education is considered to be a fundamental component of the curriculum. It has become increasingly important in the modern world to tackle the issue of enhancing the effectiveness of art education, for which the intersection of art and information technology has been viewed as one of the most promising ways. In this paper, we use the project‐based STEAM learning methodology to study how music and fine arts courses can be cross‐integrated with information technology courses. An effective method, named intelligent fusion, is proposed by combining information technology with art education synergistically. The proposed intelligent fusion method is validated by involving a total of 920 10‐ to 11‐year‐old students as participants in our study, and finally favourable learning and teaching outcomes are obtained. By offering these creative and comprehensive artistic practice activities, students are exposed to knowledge from a variety of disciplines, which enhances their aesthetic perception and achieves the interdisciplinary educational goals. Moreover, our developed methods can help researchers and teachers integrate domain knowledge through information technology and fully exploit the comprehensive potential of students when learning various subjects.