Education in Arts / Spring 2022

  ------------------- Review Installation Art Found objects Readymades Marcel Duchamp Nature's Art Conceptual Art Ana Mendieta Collage Ethnosphere Naive Art Parts of a lesson Learning Theories Student Centered Approach Jacob Intilé -------------------- Quiz 1 Installation Art, Nature Art, Naive Art (Drawing) and Collage 1. How can an installation art piece  be used to teach an academic subject? 2. Why is nature's art a valid way of bringing attention to ecology? 3. Drawing enhances learning of language arts. Explain 4. A collage develops several skills while allowing children to be creative. Explain. 5. Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up.  In previous classes, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up,  self-affirmations,  meditation , mindfulness and relaxation techniques. How would you implement the warm up don...

  I   WARM UP Mindfulness   II    Creative Storming Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures.   Question 1 Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students.    ----------------------      III   INTRO TO DRAWING         It is important that students have a theoretic foundation when creating their own teaching methodology. Below see the major theoretic paradigms used in education now-a days.  Article: Drawing on an Outdated Theory?   by Jess Dorn It is sometimes said that our brain consists of a left hemisphere that excels in intellectual, rational, verbal, and analytical thinking and a right hemisphere that excels in sensory discrimination and in emotional, nonverbal, and intuitive thinking. However, in the normal brain, with extensive commissural i...

    I   CHECK IN     II      WARM UP     III    Review   (9:20 min.)  Question 1 What new pieces of information about the three theories covered in this video (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism) can you add to your previous understanding (from last class) of learning theories? -------------------------------------------------------------------- IV Video 2 The Arts   Learning through the Arts   Question 2 In which way does this program connect the arts to the academic curriculum of the children? Give examples.    -----------------------------------  V   Video 3   Multiple Intelligences   Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences Gardner's Multiple Intelligences     http://www.tecweb.org/styles/gardner.html   Question 3 Which is the main point Howard Gardner is trying to make?    ------------------------------------------------   VI ...

I   CHEK IN  (5 min.) II WARM UP Body, Breathing & Mind (10 min.)   -------------------   III Review   (9:20 min.)  Question 1 What new pieces of information about the three theories covered in this video (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism) can you add to your previous understanding (from last class) of learning theories? -------------------    IV   The Ethnosphere By Wade Davis The class will be introduced to National Geographic's Explorer Wade Davis who teaches about what he calls the ethnosphere, a word he uses to describe  the imaginative contributions of humanity to the planet. He makes emphasis on people's stories. They are global resources, just like air, water, and green life.  Just like the biosphere, the ethnosphere is also  threatened by rampant modernization and globalization.  (22:19 min) Question 2   According to Wade Davis what is the ethnosphere?   Question 3   According t...

I   WARM UP   Activity 1 Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's  muscle groups - isolation  warm up.  In previous classes, we added  conscious breathing  at the end of the warm up,   self-affirmations  and  meditation . Today, we are adding  mindfulness , a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.   Question 1 How did you feel after the warm up today? Post your answer on Discussion Board. ----------------------      II    INTRO TO LEARNING THEORIES Today we will introduce the different learning theories used in most educational systems around the world. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the following questions: A brief introducti...

    I  Warm Up II Educational Article   Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland   Questions 1. How did teaching get this way? What be done to move teaching forward? (4th paragraph) 2. How do we break out of the unproductive cycle & move teaching forward? (8th paragraph) 3. What would such a theory of student learning look like? ------------------ III   The Ethnosphere By Wade Davis The class will be introduced to National Geographic's Explorer Wade Davis who teaches about what he calls the ethnosphere, a word he uses to describe  the imaginative contributions of humanity to the planet. He makes emphasis on people's stories. They are global resources, just like air, water, and green life.  Just like the biosphere, the ethnosphere is also  threatened by rampant modernization and globalization.  (22:19 min) Question 4   According to Wade Davis what is the ethnosphere?   Question 5   According to Wade Dav...

    I   WARM UP   Activity 1 Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's  muscle groups - isolation  warm up.  We add  conscious breathing  at the end of the warm up,   self-affirmations  and  meditation .   Question 1 Is this warm up useful? Post your answer on Discussion Board. ---------------------- Part II    BOOK REVIEW    Today we will introduce Jon Taylor Gato's work on education. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the following questions: Book Review: Dumbing Us Down Question 2 What do you think about Gato's ideas as  expressed   in this review?   ------------------ III   Activity 2  Please, read the following chapter.   The 7 Lesson School Teacher   https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dumbing_Us_Down/IF8f0SsGXnwC?...

I Review Ideas About Art 1 Based on Plato's philosophical reflection on the arts and beauty,  the artist copies the experienced object, or uses it as a model for his work. For the philosopher, on the other hand, beauty resides in the idea and not in sensible things.   2 For Aristotle beauty is contained in symmetry, which he considers the symbol of perfection, linked to the classic concept of beauty: harmony, order and proportion. 3 Baumgarten,  reaffirmed that the essence of beauty could not occur without the discovery of aesthetic sensible pleasure. The beautiful and the aesthetic are not alien to the sensitive. What comprises the artistic is given through sensibility. 4 Baumgarten proposes aesthetics as a science of sensible knowledge, which deals with beauty. "The end of aesthetics is the perfection of sensible knowledge as such and this is beauty."  5 Kant is interested in art for its connection with beauty, not for art itself. Beauty, according to Kant, is not ...