Art

In every lesson, students are used to taking at least three photographs of their work to show progress. The camera app is used to either take photos, videos or time lapses. This allows students to be self reflective and assess themselves through independent learning of what they have done in the classroom. This also encourages our students to be self reflective and visually remind themselves what they've done and what they now need to improve on.

Students use Google slides to work on a collaborative document. Students upload their work and are able to peer assess work without leaving their seat. They can see the work of other students and make constructive comments at intervals throughout a project using the comment bank feature.

When drawing from still life, students often first take a photograph. They then like to edit this before doing some intense observational drawing. The camera app allows students to zoom in on their photograph to analyse it in detail and to observe texture before putting pencil to paper.

One of the biggest uses of iPad is being able to research artists on the internet and for students to then document their research in such a variety of ways. For example, some will use the Microsoft or Google apps for writing, voice transcription features, the voice memos app as a dictaphone to record their thoughts about an artist and some will produce a visual presentation of what they have learnt through clips.

We encourage students to talk about their work to their peers through screen mirroring. Students gain confidence through wanting to show their work to the whole class inspiring deeper student learning. Teachers also use this tool to show live and recorded teacher art demonstrations to better explain tasks to students.

Through the use of Google, students use iPad to access all of the Art project slides. This means that students can work at their own pace and have in front of them the learning objectives and lesson tasks that directly apply to where they are in the lesson. Students for the first time choose how they complete tasks and explore more ways to hand work in. This in turn develops their inquisitive and problem solving skills. This is encouraging independence and gets students ready for a world of technology.

Students at Key Stage 3 do a lot of screen recording of their work, that acts as a revision and learning tool to their peers. This also shows understanding of their learning through documenting how a piece of artwork has been completed. Especially if we are using digital drawing apps with their apple pencils.

When using interactive apps such as Google arts and culture, students were able to use iPad to move around a virtual art gallery or to bring paintings to the classroom for group discussion.

Using ipad at GCSE means learning is an easy transition from classroom to Home Learning. With lots of Art coursework teacher feedback has to be one to one, specific and very personalised to fit the themes of student led projects. Feedback is very much a two way process.

Students and teachers use Voice Memos to record feedback, this is then emailed to students or air dropped to them so they have a copy forever to pause, play and repeat. This has been one of the biggest game changers for us.

We also use the camera app on video to record students sketchbooks so that they know what pages we are commenting on. Students also use the app to record “sketchbook tours" of their work, encouraging students to be able to understand their work and make their own judgements on what to refine.

The apple classroom app allows teachers to see who needs help and to push websites to everyone and direct information to students, it is another great app to support and direct students to research.

Students are able to build a digital portfolio of work, showing their learning journey at Tomlinscote that they then take with them to college and use in interviews.