Class IntroductionIntroduce yourself, give us your background and interest in class – what you want to get out of this? Your expectations? A question you have about art and learning/art education?
Introduction Exercise – Drawer of Shame1. Brainstorm list of things in the drawer
Select item from the list that could be a symbol, simile (cat is like a canary) or metaphor (cat is a canary) to connect who you are in this moment, what kind of learner you are and what you hope to get from this class.
2. Introduce self: NAME, item from the drawer with explanation of why you chose it and how it represents you or yourself as a learner and your intentions in this class. Also say where you come from, major, and something of interest about you that is not related to the class topic.
Introduction to Art and Learning - Inquiry and UnderstandingsWhat is a Throughline? This semester we will explore the relationships between the following questions:
- What is the relationship between art and learning?
- What is art education?
- What is art education for and why does it matter?
In groups of three you will talk about the following questions – then share out to the whole group:
- What is the relationship between learning and experience?
- What is the relationship between art and experience?
Listing Our QuestionsAs a whole group we will start to create a list of what you think arts education/arts learning is or what it could be and what it looks like. We will keep this list throughout the semester and revisit at the end of semester.
What questions do you have? In pairs, generate list of questions that have about arts learning. Then share out to the whole group. We will add these questions to a list we will grow over the course of the semester.
Looking at the list of questions handout try to identify the similarities and different? – Work in pairs to find similarities and differences. This will help us to revise our list of research questions throughout the course. You will use this list later for to drawn from when for your their own inquiry project.
Introduce Blogging Journal (think of this as a process journal…)
You will need to go online and set up a blog on
Bloggger. If you already have a Google account you can just log right in with this account. If you have never set up a Google account, you will have to set on up - you can do this from the Blogger home page.
You will be asked to write in this online blog/journal every week. You can also upload images, and video - be creative - but make sure we can read what you are writing about. We will be giving you writing prompts each week for your blog.
HOMEWORK - Due January 26th, 2009
1.
Purchase reader (about $28.00 from Green Graphics on Broadway (near College). Read the following articles:
Noddings, N. What Does it Mean to Educate the Whole Child? p. 161
Disanayake, What is Art for? p.15
2.
Take a Learning Styles survey. Go to one of the following sites and take an online survey. Write a short reflection about what you found out about yourself - What surprised you? What did you already know?:
3.
History and Ideas Blogging
Set up your blogging journal: (
http://www.blogger.com/start) Please begin using it immediately, in conjunction with the first reading - Reflect on yourself as a learner and respond to the articles you read. Your blog/journal counts towards your grade and will be commented on online 2 times during this semester. It will be assessed on regularity, thoroughness, creativity and engagement with course content. Go to our blog site to see writing prompts for your blog:
History and Ideas Blogging Journals4.
Make sure that you have a notebook every week for class
5.
Designing an Art Experience - Choose something that you understand really well - it can be anything (draw a face, set up a website, design a logo, making lasagna, etc) and design an arts learning experience of your choice that will make it easy for someone else to understand to do the thing that you are good at. Make sure to to answer the following questions in your presentation:
- How did you learn it? (This is how you learn about drawing a face, this is how you get really good at it...)
- How do you know you understand it? (When you can teach it to somone else, when you can do it quickly, etc.)
You can present this anyway you want – as a creative written piece, poem, Power Point Presentation, an artwork, spoken word, dramatic piece – your choice – be creative.
