Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Starting off on our adventure...
This blog is for the Arts and Crafts section of the IU13 Powerful Learning Practice Year 2 group. We are going to be creating a Problem/Passion Based Learning project throughout several different districts and grades. We are just starting out and have not gotten very far into our brainstorming, but we'll use this blog to help keep a record of the things we have accomplished as we go through.
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Looks great! Thanks for getting this started!
ReplyDeleteOkay team! I wanted to make this into a new post, but I only have access to add a comment.
ReplyDeleteToday's elluminate session focused on art in different cultures, as well as art in the context of math and history.
There are so many directions we could take any of these topics. Art can be seen through so many different lenses and be created with many different intentions/purposes.
Out culture tends to view art as a final product. What can we see in the art? What emotions does it evoke in the observer? Other cultures use art as a means to an end. How can this "art" be used as a functional item? What can be created to make life easier?
Additionally, it's easy to overlook how art can show up in disciplines in education, especially math and art. Elementary art teachers frequently use math (geometry) to teach different types of art. We can also teach about the past using artist renditions of historical events. What part of life does art not touch? It's expressive and can speak to anyone, regardless of where you live or what language you speak.
So, where do we go from here? What is "art" as it fits the purpose of our project?
Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? It was Oscar Wilde who said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
So, out group has tried to narrow our focus ... how can we use these inquiries to guide us?
What if students created an artistic item of their choice that would illustrate our 21st century culture and put that in a time capsule that would be opened in 100 years?
What does this mean for us? What components would we use to create this?
I'll leave everyone with this quote:
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
What an amazing quote from John F. Kennedy! I never thought about art acutally nourishing the roots of culture... and yes the artist must be free to follow the vision of how to nourish our culture.
ReplyDeleteHeather, you gave me much to think about!
I love the inquiries in which you've been immersed. From those have you decided upon an essential question and then talked about how you will introduce this to your students and work with them to learn their wonderings/ questions too?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sister Geralyn, the quote is a powerful one!
Lani