Assignment due 4/5

 The types of collaborations that i have been engaged in range from every type of group project having to do with power points, to lessons, to speeches. I am a member of the volleyball club and have always been on some sort of team my whole life. This has helped me learn how to get through happy and uncomfortable situations. When you have people that you know will have your back it makes it easy to get comfortable and want to work with them in other areas as well. Teams can teach students that they are not alone and they have others to help and expand their own ideas and learn others perspectives. Being a part of urban group has effected me because more and more things are becoming industrialized. So many things are no longer personable.  Collaboration in the classroom to tech citizenship and deal with challenging situations but doing skits and learning about each in a fun way.

Assignment due 3/29

What is your response to the New Children’s Museum? Have they successfully integrated new media into art that is appropriate, engaging for children? Is it just entertainment or is there educational value to what is being presented?


At the Children's Museum i felt that it was more geared towards infants to about 1st graders.  the architecture of the building is beautiful, but i do not feel makes the museum inviting. i felt that when on the tour i was very young and our guide was treating us very little. granted i know she works with children all day, so that is what she is used too. i felt that all the different stations or exhibits were great on the integration of learning and media, although some were complex for the age range that they target. i felt that there was both entertainment and educational value that was presented. With that said when i was little i dont think that my mom would have taken me there because a lot of those lessons that were exhibits we learn in everyday life and through experience i.e. the rain house.

Assignment due 3/22

1)

            A) the role of media in art today is more dominate then ever. Kids in this age are now comfortable if not more comfortable with technology than their teachers. With this knowledge they have more access to television adds, music videos, films, videos, computer generated images, these are all forms of art. With this being the reality art in the classroom is in a way becoming more mandatory because that is the way kids have adapted to learning. The examples that pertain most to my argument are fax friendships and copy technology outlined in chapter 10 in our book.

            B) Examples of how one could use photography and video as an educational and communicational tool in the classroom are: a cd or dvd about particular artists, comparison slides of different art works, a live television lesson a video recording interview, and maybe an internet lesson.

2)

            A) After Luz Chung’s presentation on social justice and its connection to the classroom I feel that the most important point she made that hits home with me is Dialogue in the classroom. Growing up i was always able to have a voice and express myself in different ways. I think that as a teacher that is one of the hardest things to do, letting each child have their voice and learning how to express themselves in their own appropriate way. As a teacher I hope to achieve that and make my students as comfortable as my teachers made me.

            B) I could use arts in the classroom to create a common ground with students from various backgrounds by using figures that each student would know and discussing all the controversies that go along with each public figure. Each student would then be able to have their voice and although we are all different have the same views on maybe one figure

Assignment due 3/8

A)   I thought that the visit to SDMA was very enlightening. I never thought that math and science could be at the inner workings of various pieces of art. i enjoyed being with the class because we could learn others perspective on the different paintings just like a real classroom that we will all be soon teaching. All the works were innovative and made is think, it is a great way to have critical thinking brought out in a non threatening environment.

B)   Yes I believe that SDMA is a viable accessible resource for elementary and secondary students. Being a student myself I learned a lot so being a elementary student it would be fun learning different subjects from paintings. Also, getting out of the classroom and experiencing new things as a student it always memorable. 

Assignment due 3/1

A) When creating the headdress I wanted it to look vary earthy but decided early on that I only wanted to use tissue paper. Knowing that we will not have a lot of money to spend on supplies as teachers that is where pure tissue paper cam from. I then began to think of what kind of princess fairytale I would want to be in. I wanted to be fun and bubbly with many flowers. My hat began to form itself. A white base with pink and purple boarders. There were flowers and cupcake holders to enhance the look of the flowers. Then I thought that princesses usually have flowing hair. So with help took yellow and brown tissue paper and made braids. 

B)To use this lesson in a 2^nd grade lesson I would read some different fairy tales, have the kids tell me what makes up a fairy tale, then they write their own. After they are finished writing make a headdress that will match the story they have created. This will allow them to expand in creativity and writing.

C) 7.  Use information gained from the illustrations and

words in a print or digital text to demonstrate

understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

2.  Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem

from details in the text, including how characters in

a story or drama respond to challenges or how the

speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic;

summarize the text

7.  Analyze how visual and multimedia elements

contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text

(e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of

fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

9.  Compare and contrast stories in the same genre

(e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their

approaches to similar themes and topics.

Assignment due 2/22

A)   The value of facilitating a discussion about the works of art with young children is to learn abstract ways to look at the same thing. When they start to see the others perspective they begin to enhance their own. It is important for the students to discuss them so that they have the opportunity to interpret what they see through vocabulary. When we use VTS we don’t end up having right or wrong answers. This gives the kids the affirmations that they are not seeing their opinions wrong.  All in all they benefit by vocabulary, interpretive, and comprehensive skills.

B)   Well Since it was such a recognizable place, both Raquel and Michelle both new the place and setting from the personal knowledge. This was expected. Then they both began to speculate at the different occasion that it would be. They began to say that it was a holiday because so many people were out, or possibly a weekend. They were talking about a lot about the setting and energy from the piece as apposed to what the people were wearing. 

Assignment due 2/15

A) Art in the classroom was very limited when i was in grade school. We would have twice a week about 30 minutes for art. We never really had enough time to finish the project that day so it would take the full week to finish that one simple project. I remember having some coloring exercises along with social studies but other than that we did not really do a lot of art, or art related projects. I feel that if we were to have done more art in school younger i would feel more comfortable with it. I feel apprehensive because i am not that developed in the artistic sense. I feel that i am creative but do not have the skill to implement that into art.

B) The relationship between art and learning goes hand and hand. With the development of our brian we learn that the brain learns through multiple senses and modalities, it thrives on processes and making sense of new information, and uses patterns to make sense of this new information. With all these things thats is when art comes to play. Making the brain work and have critical thinking through art, finding new patterns, and also using different ways to expresses the means that we interpret things. Making the students interested in a different way then text learning.

The general benefits of arts integration are providing a safe environment for english learners, providing unique opportunities for grouping, socially constructed learning that connects to the real world, and offers challenges to students. These all help students to expand their critical thinking and getting a visual aid as well to help them refer back to at later times. The knowledge becomes more relatable and in turn assessable when this is done.