Writing Prompts for April 13th

Read Deasy & Stevenson: Third Space: When Learning Matters, Chapter 2, page
121-130 in reader.

• Fill out the worksheet given to you in class.
• Respond on your blogs with a reflection in paragraph form that is the summary of your ideas you wrote about on this worksheet. Due by April 13th.
  

Writing Prompts for April 6th

Read Releasing the Imagination, Introduction, Narrative in the Making, by Greene in your reader.

Write about the ideas in this article in terms of how it fits into our understanding goals for the class and into your own personal art education philosophy.

Come to class on Monday April 6th prepared to talk about this with each other and our guest.

Writing Prompts for March 30th

NO BLOGGING HOMEWORK THIS WEEK!

Work on your research writing project due next week.

Good Luck!

Writing Prompts for March 23rd

Read the article by John Dewy, Art as Experience, Chapter 1, The Live Creature.

Find a quote the resonates with you and write about it below - just a reflection.

Bring the quote to class with you on Monday March 23rd to share.

If you feel inclined - post an update on how your research is going.

Writing Prompts for March 9th

Read/Review the Oaks and Lipton article: Chapter 3, Contemporary Learning Theories: Problem Solving and Understanding.

• Find a quote to share in class from this article
  

Please write each of the headings below on your post followed by your response:

1. Clarify: What are the key points advanced in this reading?
2. Analysis: How does this reading resonate with your personal experiences, beliefs and knowledge? Does it affirm or challenge? Explain.
3. Puzzles: Did this reading confuse you in any way or raise new questions for you?
4. Extensions: Note how this reading challenged, extended or deepened your thinking.
   
5. Reflection: How do the ideas in this reading relate to the Eisner Aims of Art Education? Studio Habits thinking framework? You as a learner?
   
6. Follow Up References: Note any core ideas (or quotes) that you’d like to draw on from the reading in articulating your own art education philosophy.

NOTE: Please make sure to send a thoughtful, reflective comment to a fellow classmate this week!!

Writing Prompts for March 2nd

During this response time the presenter will listen to each round. At the end of the final "I wonder..." round the presenter will have time to respond to audience remarks.

HOMEWORK Due March 2, 2009

This will be a light week so you can catch up with other reading and postings. There are 2 things we want you to do:

1. Write a short refection about the Art Fair presentations - what did you learn from this experience both as a listener/viewer and as a researcher/presenter?

1. Read the introduction to Bell Hooks book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, page 226 in you reader. This is a short inspiring article. Use the following protocol to respond:

• Find a quote in the reading that resonates with you and write it in your blog.
• Tell why you picked this quote - relay any personal experience that resonated through this quote - why it stood out in the texts for you. Why do you feel it is an important statement in regard to the ideas and aims of art education that Eisner, Oaks and Lipton articles addressed? What is the relationship between these authors thinking around education?
• Bring your quote to class with you on Monday - we will use this to begin our conversation about the reading.
  

Writing Prompts for February 23rd

This week we want you to focus on your Art Fair installations and research. To that end please tell us how it is going:

• Make a new post on your blog - it can be brief, stating any information about your research this week - How is it going? What new questions came up for you? What knots have you hit and how have you unraveled them? What surprised you?

• Make a comment to a fellow classmate you have not talked to before.