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Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How can learning transcend disciplines and transfer from one arena in one's life to another?
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
Warm-up: What's your weather forecast?
Finishing our Artistic Practice Presentations
Unpacking the Readings - What's the big idea?
Reflecting upon your own Big Idea(s)
EUs & EQs
For next week...
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
I can grapple with, inquire into and articulate the themes and conceptual foci in my work (or those that I aspire to work with).
I can develop my teacher voice and presence/confidence.
We can offer one another community support and feedback as each of us explores our big ideas.
I can define, differentiate between, and articulate Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions.
Warmup
Warmup
What's your weather forecast today? Are you feeling sunny, partially cloudy, stormy, chilly, breezy, calm...?
My Artistic Practice Presentations -
My Artistic Practice Presentations -
finishing up
finishing up
Please share your screen and introduce us to your artistic practice!
Please share your screen and introduce us to your artistic practice!
While participants are presenting, jot down words/phrases that you hear related to their what, why & how
also upon request, here's my artistic practice presentation!
Unpacking the readings
Unpacking the readings
Walker Chapters 1 & 2
Walker Chapters 1 & 2
What's the big idea?
What's the big idea?
Please add the thoughts, questions and epiphanies that resonated with you from the reading to this Jamboard.
Discuss the visual evidence with your group until you have arrived at a short phrasing of your interpretation of their big idea.
Add your phrasing of their big idea to the Jamboard.
reflecting upon your own big idea(s)
reflecting upon your own big idea(s)
Please take some time to mind map, brain dump, or stream of consciousness write about what YOUR big idea is, or big ideas that you aspire to make about.
Please take some time to mind map, brain dump, or stream of consciousness write about what YOUR big idea is, or big ideas that you aspire to make about.
If you're feeling stuck, really dig deep--
If you're feeling stuck, really dig deep--
WHY do you make?
WHY do you make?
why do YOU make?
why do YOU make?
why do you MAKE?
why do you MAKE?
Please try to articulate your idea as a brief descriptive phrase that is personal to you and that captures the essence of why you make.
Words have power! Choose them with intention. Try to craft a phrasing that resonates with you.
At the same time we will have more opportunities to revisit and refine your articulation of your idea, so if you don't end up with something that sits right with you today that is okay too. Still grapple with the ideas-- that is the most important thing
If your idea comes together quickly, please shift your focus to the following question:
What aspect of this big idea would you/could you explore with PK-12 learners?
checking in: chat waterfall strategy
checking in: chat waterfall strategy
Essential Questions & Enduring Understandings
Essential Questions & Enduring Understandings
Please take out your notebooks and jot down (or doodle!) the key ideas here:
Group Practice: Reunite with your Big Idea Breakout Room group from earlier and articulate 2-4 Enduring Understandings and 2-4 Essential Questions related to the conceptual themes of your artist's work.
Group Practice: Reunite with your Big Idea Breakout Room group from earlier and articulate 2-4 Enduring Understandings and 2-4 Essential Questions related to the conceptual themes of your artist's work.
For next week:
For next week:
-Read & Take Notes
-Read & Take Notes
Art For Life, Chapter 1 (please reach out if you need a PDF)
Carroll and Tucker, Forming Elegant Problems: 2-page excerpt that describes the characteristics of Elegant Problems - PDF
OPTIONAL: Sandra Kay, Designing Elegant Problems for Creative Thinking - PDF
-Do/Create
-Do/Create
Create a Document called EUs and EQs in your Strategies Folder (shared with me)
In that document, articulate 2-4 Essential Questions and 2-4 Enduring Understandings related to the conceptual focus of your Big Idea.
Organize your Strategies Archive!
Take some time to review, edit, add to, and refine your strategies collection so far.
You will be doing some sorting tasks next week, and you want to have this a ROBUST COLLECTION that is WELL-ORGANIZED.
Please review and revise what you have. Please make sure to include their intended purpose, and whether or not your felt they were effective.
-Looking ahead
-Looking ahead
Next week I will host 10-minute breakout room check-ins with you during class time while you are conducting some research and other tasks associated with your Big Idea and the thematic unit in the main meet.
Summary of what must be turned in:
2-4 Enduring Understandings and 2-4 Essential Questions shared with me via your Strategies Folder
A robust collection of specifically and clearly articulated strategies, their purpose, and whether or not you felt they were effective, derived from this class, your other classes, or your studio practice and organized in your ongoing Strategies Archive document or folder within your Strategies Folder.
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