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Proponents of interdisciplinary methods and tools to help students connect and extend understanding have long touted its virtues. Known by many names (multi-disciplinary, thematic, integrated, etc.) it is the related ways in which the disciplines can be studied that is so effectively born out of learning in the arts.

What is it that happens in experiencing the arts that is so readily transferable to thinking and learning in all disciplines?

Are we moving from an Information Age to the Age of Creativity and Innovation?

When is interdisciplinary learning authentic and when is it ‘hokey’?

What do YOU think?