Integrated Lesson

Guided Imagery

• Standard 1.1 The Creative Process: All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles that govern the creation of works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.
• Standard 8.1 Educational Technology: All students will use digital tools to access, manage, evaluate, and synthesize information in order to solve problems individually and collaboratively and to create and communicate knowledge.
• Standard 1.4 Aesthetic Responses & Critique Methodologies: All students will demonstrate and apply an understanding of arts philosophies, judgment, and analysis to works of art in dance, music, theatre, and visual art.

Two Word Art Poem

1. Description: This is a great way to get students to incorporate literacy, art (imagery), and technology together. A two word art poem is used to describe a character/setting/feeling from a famous piece of art.  
2. Goals: Students communicate facts about what art terms they know, explore their own feelings and emotions, and use poetry as a way to describe what they are seeing.
3. Objectives: Using two words for each line of the poem students describe what they see and feel while looking at a piece of artwork.
4. Procedure: Describe what you see and feel while looking at an image. You may use art terms such as texture, size, balance from the elements of art and the principles of design. You may use terms that express your feelings and emotions that you feel when you look at the piece as well as your likes and dislikes. And you may use words that you feel describe what is happening within the piece such the figures, the place setting, important objects in the image, etc. You are then to place through Vodcast a video of you reciting your Two Word Poem so that I and your classmates may get the true feeling of your poem.

Example

Relativity M.C. Escher

Crazy stairs
Stiff figures
Doors open
Lost forever
Going nowhere
Insanity coming
Mind lost

Assessment: Students share their finished two word art poem.

Cell phones

Both schools and parents need to take responsibility for teaching students the correct way to use and handle their phones. Schools provide programs like D.A.R.E. when students are young on resisting drugs and have classes throughout the rest of the student’s school years on sexual health, drinking and drugs, so they should incorporate units on sexting and phone usage as well.  Phones can be useful to carry around and I can understand why the students should have them, but I don’t think that a student’s phone should have the capability for them to text or send pictures; they should just be able to make phone calls. I feel that this way the students will need to have them on silent while in school so that they don’t make any noises, will not be able to text under their desks or in between classes, will not be able to send nude or obscene pictures to others, yet will still be in contact with their parents. Students are more likely to text and send pictures over their phones then to actually use their phone for a phone call. The only time they would be able to call someone would be before or after school. At the beginning of the school year schools should also ask for every student’s cell number and place them all into a massive list. With this list the schools will one, have everyone’s number in their records and two, can send out warnings or important messages to the students if they need to and to parent’s cells that could also be included into the list. It is the same system that Montclair uses, if say someone pulled a fire alarm in one of the buildings and that building is now closed anyone who is on their list will get a message telling them. High schools use this massive phone call thing when they have closings or delays. I don’t think phones need to be banned from schools just modified in a way that eliminates the chances of students sexting, bullying, disturbing class, cheating, excreta.

Copyright

As teachers we need to make sure that we are correctly using the tools we are working with, this includes making sure that we are properly citing material and are not doing anything illegally that could get us into trouble or our school district. We also need to set examples for our students and teach them the copyrighting laws. With the internet becoming more and more the first place we go to when looking for something, it is easy to steal material without even realizing it or to take something from a site that isnt authentic.

NETS for Teachers

http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/lessons/lp0003.html

In this lesson focused on fourth graders, students use the computer to learn more about an animal. They are to use word-processor and Grolier online encyclopedia.  They are also given the chance if they wish to use it other technology tools such as digital cameras, using scanners, creating presentations, etc. The students are to find as much research as they can on the animal they have chosen and to then write a report on what they have found. They are then to share with the class their reports and include something to go along with their presentations, for example the girl in the video was going to be reading a book with hers. This is a great way to get students more comfortable in their typing and usage on computers and gets them to feel more comfortable in opening up and sharing when they present to the class their research.

1c –Students are using tools to learn more about an animal, learning new things that they might not have known before.

3d- They are given the chances and are encouraged to use other technology tools.

4a- Although it is not stated that the students are learning about copyrighting and citing, it does tell us that they are to use the MLA format for their papers and that they are to use Grolier. I would think that the teacher would incorporate the two together so that the students understand the correct way to write a research paper as they are working.

I would say that I’m at the level of Adaption. Though I have learned a lot and feel comfortable in all that we have done so far I know that there are still plenty of more things to learn and that some of it will be changeling. I am confident though that whatever situations or obstacles I come across that I will be able to handle them and find out how to make it work.

Podcast learning activity

audio podcast: art voc elements and principles

In this podcast I have gone over the week’s vocabulary words, the elements of art and the principles of design. These words are important terms in the art field. The students would be required to know them and be able to use them. During lessons and critiques these are vocabulary words would be the topic of discussion. They would be talked about often. I would expect the students to be able to look at their work and other work and be able to point out these terms and talk about them. They could possibly also be on tests.  I would give them the word or the definition and the students would have to match the word to the definition or vice versa or I would give them the word and they would need to come up with a way of describing what it is. To put the vocabulary onto audio and then onto podcasts would be for the student’s benefit.  It would be there for the students to go back to, in case they might have misplaced their hand out or because they missed one of the words while taking notes. The podcast would also help those students who memorize terms better when they are read to them. They could listen, following along with, or repeat after me to be better able to remember them. To take the lesson and the vocabulary further I could also show a piece of art work along with the audio and then have them write a description, using the terms, which ones the artists used in the work and how they are working.

Schools Kill..Creativity

This was an amazing video!!! And what a great speaker! It really got me re- thinking about the way in which the school systems are almost becoming blind, how they aren’t actually looking at what’s really happening and who the students are and what their potentials are. Its mind-blowing thinking about how we have no idea what’s in the future yet as teachers we are to teach these next generations. I think even with the economy as it is creating schools and lessons that focus more on getting creative in many different ways wouldn’t be as tough as some may think. The whole point is not being afraid or limiting ourselves so why hold back on trying to create these things. I loved how he talked about children taking chances and not being held back if they are afraid if they are wrong. How they will just go with it and how they tap into who they are, being confident in knowing what they know.  Music, physical education and art are so important to a child’s development and education. It brings people together, gets them relaxed, placed into a different mindset one that makes people happy, talkative, and thinking creatively. And they each tap into other subject areas like math and reading, only they do it in a way in which the child enjoys it and hardly knows that they’re being taught that as well.

21st Century Skills

After reading the articles on 21^st Century Skills it’s become really hard to pick which might be better. In Diane Ravitch’s ‘Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge’, she mentions how using the 21^st Century Skills will push subjects like art out of the schools. But this confuses me because why would they do that when the 21^st Century Skills is about cooperative learning, critical thinking, working creatively, communicating, using prior knowledge, and decision making among how many more skills that are all used in art. Compared to some of the other subjects that they were talking about like science, in my opinion, art is one of the only subjects that really is using all of the skills that they’re trying to cover with the 21^st Century Skills. So why get rid of it? I’m not saying that the 21^st Century is a bad idea, but it sounds a lot, too, like the 21^st Century Skills is trying to jump over the basics and essential stuff, like reading and writing. Like Jay Mathews mentioned in ‘The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st-Century Skills’ many students are still trying to improve in these areas and that they still need to focus more on them. I think it would be best to bring the two together, use some of the skills but don’t skip over the essential stuff.

back to school

http://www.slideshare.net/ash0986/back-to-school-night-3221717

This is my slideshow and its got audio now!…though the audio is not in sync with it because it wont let me edit it 😦

Using a power point is a great way to show visually topics, events and assignments that will be coming up. It helps to get parents more involved and is a great reminder for students. For art it’s wonderful since I can then show pieces that say could be in a museum in Europe. Since I can’t bring my classes there I can bring the pieces of art to them through pictures (slides). Almost the majority of the art classes that I have taken used slides or power point, especially when going over art history. There is such a variety of different kinds of art in the world that the easiest way to bring it into the classroom and to help get my student’s mind rolling and start getting creative is through showing them as much of it as possible.

task 1 Implications

After seeing the technology standards that I will need to be using within my classroom I am a little bit more worried about how I will be able to incorporate them if I do not have the material at my disposal.  Technology is always changing and growing so it may be hard to stay on top of it. I know that in my high school the year that I graduated the art department decided to bring in computer designing. However the programs that they use are not the most efficient or what the students would be using if they decided to go further into the area say in college.  Also some of the learning activities that the site gave seemed almost as if they would be over the student’s head. It’ll be hard to modify the activities to a level the students will understand.

For myself I will try to learn as much as I can with new programs or other technology related things. Learning new techniques is something that I take fulfillment in. Even if my classroom is not equipped with the latest thing, I will hopefully be able to at least show my students what else is out there, what other programs or ways there are that allow them to do something, what they may use if they decide they want to go into that field.

task 2 Standards

• Content Area –Technology
• Standard- 8.2 Technology Education, Engineering, and Design- All students will develop an understanding of the nature and impact of technology, engineering, technological design, and the designed world, as they relate to the individual, global society, and the environment.
• Strand- C. Technological citizenship, ethics and society
• Grade 12
• Content statement- Knowledge and understanding of the human, cultural, and societal values are fundamental when designing technology systems and products in the global society.
• CPI- 8.2.12.C.3- Evaluate the positive and negative impacts in a design by providing a digital overview of a chosen product and suggest potential modifications to address the negative impacts.

Students are expected to be able to see the positive and negative impacts that some products have. They are then to come up and design a way in which they can ‘fix’ the product. They need to create a new design of the product that has eliminated its negative effects. As an art teacher I could use this learning activity to help the students go beyond just drawing. They would need to think of a product that has both negative and positive effects and then do as much research on that product as possible. They would then need to think and get creative in thinking of ways to improve that product. After gathering as much as they could the final step would be to draw the new and improved product, labeling and describing, perhaps through a presentation, the changes that they have made and why they decided on those changes.