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Essential Question:
Essential Question:
How can a unit of study help a learner to synthesize deeper understandings about art, self, and world?
Today's Agenda:
Today's Agenda:
Grounding exercise
Circle of Voices
Peer share
Introducing the Full Unit Plan
Anatomy of an Elegant Problem
Break
Breakout Room Brainstorming Session - Elegant Problem Edition
Check-in
Introducing Art - Self - World
Field Notes & Closing
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
I can give voice to my current iteration/articulation of my Big Idea.
I can investigate the framework for the Thematic Unit of Study that I will be creating.
I can articulate the qualities that make an art problem elegant.
I can generate a variety of Elegant Problems that could facilitate my learners' exploration of my Big Idea.
I can visualize and articulate the ways in which engaging with my Elegant Problem will guide learners to develop deeper understandings of art, self and world.
a grounding exercise
a grounding exercise
Stop and listen. Notice and name the sounds you can hear nearby. Start with the closest or loudest sounds. Gradually move your awareness of sounds outward, so you are focusing on what you can hear in the distance.
Stop and listen. Notice and name the sounds you can hear nearby. Start with the closest or loudest sounds. Gradually move your awareness of sounds outward, so you are focusing on what you can hear in the distance.
Circle of Voices
Circle of Voices
Round 1: In a word or phrase, how was your mini-break?
Round 1: In a word or phrase, how was your mini-break?
Round 2: Say your Big Idea out loud
Round 2: Say your Big Idea out loud
Peer check-in
Peer check-in
In partners or small-groups, please share an artist/image/artifact that you discovered through your research last week that you find exciting/compelling.
In partners or small-groups, please share an artist/image/artifact that you discovered through your research last week that you find exciting/compelling.
the Thematic Unit framework
the Thematic Unit framework
Where are we headed?
Where are we headed?
Looking at this document, what questions do you have?
Looking at this document, what questions do you have?
Elegant Problem - Breakout Room Brainstorming
Elegant Problem - Breakout Room Brainstorming
In your breakout rooms, please generate at least 4 possible Elegant Problems that you could explore with learners, related to your Big Idea. Discuss your ideas with your peers as you brainstorm, especially if you're feeling stuck or like you're starting to revisit the same art problem just using different words!
In your breakout rooms, please generate at least 4 possible Elegant Problems that you could explore with learners, related to your Big Idea. Discuss your ideas with your peers as you brainstorm, especially if you're feeling stuck or like you're starting to revisit the same art problem just using different words!
-Do consider a variety of different materials that synthesize with your Big Idea, EUs and EQs
-Do consider a variety of different materials that synthesize with your Big Idea, EUs and EQs
-Do consider the target age group of your learners
-Do consider the target age group of your learners
-Do not narrowly focus in on painting just because you're a painter or photography just because you're a photographer-- consider all avenues at this point!
-Do not narrowly focus in on painting just because you're a painter or photography just because you're a photographer-- consider all avenues at this point!
Check-in
Check-in
How did that go?
Back in the main room:
Back in the main room:
Create a Google Doc in your Strategies Folder called "4 Possible Elegant Problems" and using the brainstorming that you did as a rough draft, please refine and type out your four possible Elegant Problems that engage learners with your Big Idea
Create a Google Doc in your Strategies Folder called "4 Possible Elegant Problems" and using the brainstorming that you did as a rough draft, please refine and type out your four possible Elegant Problems that engage learners with your Big Idea
Highlight the elegant problem that you would be most excited to explore with PK-12 learners.
Highlight the elegant problem that you would be most excited to explore with PK-12 learners.
if time allows:
if time allows:
field notes - updates from the world of hybrid learning
field notes - updates from the world of hybrid learning
For next week:
For next week:
-Read & Take Notes
-Read & Take Notes
Playing, Creativity Possibility - Olivia Gude
and
ONE of the following:
Listen to this Podcast featuring a conversation between Krista Tippett and Stuart Brown
or
Watch this TED Talk by Peter Gray
or
Read this very short excerpt on PLORK by Sister Corita Kent
or
Read this chapter from Art & Fear
-Do/Create
-Do/Create
Using the Elegant Problem that you are MOST excited about as a starting point, fill out your copy of the Art - Self - World Diagram
This file will allow you to make a personal copy of the template. Please make sure to add it to your Strategies Folder -- it will not automatically save there
Want to see all of the elements of my unit so far?
-Acquire/Bring
-Acquire/Bring
You will be delving into a prototyping process to help with idea-generation for your thematic units. This week, take a look around your making spaces, wherever that is for you, and gather materials that have potential to be used in a unit intended for young people, PK-12 (in other words, don't gather toxic dyes or dangerous tools or other non-kid friendly things)
Prepare a makerspace/tinkering station/prototyping lab! Begin by
Collecting and organizing "stuff" to manipulate (anything that can be drawn upon, bent, formed, shaped, combined, etc.)
Gathering and organizing things that make marks.
Gathering and organizing tools (scissors, applicators...?)
Gathering adhesives (glue or...?)
Please do not hunt for these right before or during class--your homework is to be prepared with everything-in-reach and organized.
Be resourceful--look at everything as having artmaking potential! Consider the fact that many K-12 learners are currently working from their homes with limited access to traditional classroom tools/materials
Take a photo of your setup and share it to this Padlet!
Summary of what must be added to your Strategies Folder (shared with me):
Four possible Elegant Problems related to the Big Idea of your Unit (Google Doc)
Art - Self - World Diagram (Slides)
A photo of your Prototyping Station added to Padlet
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