Apr
14
Note: This post is a supplemental resource from a recent professional development session for educators.
Does Artistic Expression Emanate from Imagination or Nature?
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer. As a friend and colleague with fellow artist Vincent Van Gogh, in 1888 the two artists parted company after a conceptual argument that could not be resolved. Gauguin argued it was important in artistic expression to work from imagination, while Van Gogh maintained paintings should be based on nature.
Imagination versus realism remains a distinguishing topic of discussion today.
What is your opinion? Personally, would you tend to agree with Gauguin’s viewpoint or Van Gogh’s viewpoint? As an educator working with students does your view change on whether art is based on imagination or nature?
Have there been instances in your professional practice in which you have had conceptual disagreements with colleagues?
In 1891, Gauguin and his wife, artist Mette-Sophie Gad moved from France to Tahiti. Among his works created in Tahiti was a three-paneled work of Symbolism called “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” Painted during a period of poverty, obscurity, and intense grieving over the death of his daughter, Gauguin’s work asks questions that are universal.
Image Source: KazoArt
Gauguin’s work featured artistic experiments in Synesthesia. According to Wikipedia, “Synesthesia has historically referred to a wide variety of artists’ experiments that have explored the co-operation of the senses in the genres of visual music, music visualization, audiovisual art, abstract film, and intermedia.”
References
Bouye, L. (2021). Gauguin and Van Gogh, an explosive friendship. KAZoART. https://www.kazoart.com/blog/en/gauguin-and-van-gogh-an-explosive-friendship/#:~:text=But%20it%20was%20above%20all,should%20be%20based%20on%20nature
Synesthesia in art. (2022, August). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia_in_art
Feb
22
Happy National Engineers’ Week! #Eweek2023 #CUNE604
The theme for this year’s National Engineers’ Week is “Creating the Future.”
Feb
21
Happy National Engineers’ Week! #Eweek2023 #CUNE604
Engineering is a vital component of many fields!
What engineering fields are missing from this Mindmap? pic.twitter.com/6NijweNrGA— 10RepLearning (@TweetTeague) February 20, 2023
Consider how you can get the word out about #Eweek2023
Additional posts for National Engineers’ Week
Feb
20
Happy National Engineering Week for Monday!
Here is a fun awareness focus for the week!
Join #Eweek2023 and the emphasis on promoting Engineering.
Browse the noteworthy posts on Twitter at the hashtag Join #Eweek2023
It’s easy to check out hashtags on Twitter if you do not have a Twitter account. Just go to Twitter.com and look at the search bar on the right-hand side of the window. Type in any hashtag, in our case #Eweek2023 and the latest tweets will appear! You may even see my tweet about our class!
To help celebrate National Engineers’ Week, return to this Discussion Forum and post a fun fact you learned from your Twitter #Eweek2023 hashtag investigation.
Consider how you can get the word out about #Eweek2023
Apr
10
One of the many setbacks of the past two years is the learning voids among students who were kept home and not in school or other learning environments.
Perhaps our society forgot that “children don’t think like adults” (Papert, 1999) and their needs, especially for social connections are vastly different from adults (Piaget, 1966). The earlier works of Vygotsky and later works of Bruner (1968), Papert, Lave and Wenger form a continuum of social-emotional learning.
Children learn to talk by … talking (Bruner, 1968). The human voice in real-time is preferred. Along with talking, we must utilize question wait time and active listening.
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Educators (and those who love them) can use EdTech Digital tools to catalyst the process of student talk in learning environments.
Here is a list of reliable online strategy “How-To’s”
Chatting It Up: How to Increase Student Talk Time in The ESL Classroom from Concordia University- https://www.cune.edu/academics/resource-articles/chatting-it-how-increase-student-talk-time-esl-classroom
9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk from Edutopia – https://www.edutopia.org/article/9-strategies-getting-more-students-talk
The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies, by Jennifer Gonzalez at Cult of Pedagogy – https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/speaking-listening-techniques/
Structured Student Talk from CCOE- https://www.scoe.org/files/el14-structured-student-talk-handout.pdf
Turn and Talk Strategy with Video Demonstrations from Teacher Toolkit – There is a Pre-K and older student version- https://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/turn-and-talk
References
Bruner, J. (1968). Child’s Talk: Learning to use language. Basic Books.
Concordia University (2019). Chatting it up: How to increase student talk time in the ESL classroom.
https://www.cune.edu/academics/resource-articles/chatting-it-how-increase-student-talk-time-esl-classroom
Gonzalez, J. (2015). The Big List of Classroom Discussion Strategie. Cult of Pedagogy. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/speaking-listening-techniques/
Papert, S. (1999). Papert on piaget. Time magazine, pág, 105. https://ase.tufts.edu/DevTech/courses/readings/papertonpiaget.pdf
Piaget, J. and Inhelder, B. (1966). The psychology of the child. Basic Books.
Reid, R. (2019). 9 strategies for getting more students to talk. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/9-strategies-getting-more-students-talk
Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE), (2021). Structured Student Talk. https://www.scoe.org/files/el14-structured-student-talk-handout.pdf
TeacherToolKit: Turn and Talk Strategy (2014-2022). https://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/turn-and-talk
Teague, H. (2022). Learning Theory-> Vygotsky’s ZPD/MKO Constructivism and Paper’s Constructionsim. [VideoFile]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TnnBpiSNSeU
Mar
30
Let’s look at a few Icebreaker connections from Math… J.R.R. Tolkien… Deep Space!
The most distant individual star ever seen has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA said Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The star is believed to be 12.9 billion light-years from Earth and about 50 times as massive as the sun. The new star, coded as WHL0137-LS, was found on March 30, 2022 using gravitational lensing of a galaxy cluster.
In a wonderful STEAM connection, Dr. Brian Welch, lead researcher of the team of astrophysicists and astronomers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore gave WHL0137-LS the star name, “Earendel.” (Remember our Tolkien Reading Day Icebreaker from March 25? )
The star’s name, Earendel, is inspired by J.R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy writing!
In Tolkien’s book, “The Lord of the Rings,” Eärendil is the name of a character, ahalf-elf mariner who travels the seas carrying a jewel, or “Silmaril,” called the morning star. This star “has the wonderful name of Earendel, and that’s actually from Tolkien,” NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explained. “It means the dawn star, and it’s an Old English word. It’s lovely. And this is a star, literally, from the dawn of time, the dawn of stars forming. This is the first star, the farthest star we’ve ever seen, and I think Earendel is a beautiful name for it,” Thaller said.
Now, it’s your turn! What Icebreaker questions would you create? Consider the “7 Pieces of Art Inspired by the Night Sky” website and/or numerical data.
Artwork Resource: Show students some artwork from digital sources:
7 Pieces of Art Inspired by the Night Sky: https://www.darksky.org/7-pieces-of-art-inspired-by-the-night-sky/
From Space.com: https://www.space.com/hubble-most-distant-star-tolkien-name-earendil
From NetAtlas: https://newatlas.com/space/earendel-most-distant-star-hubble/
Here is some of the numeric data for the star, Earendel that would make great class Icebreakers!
#STEAM
Jan
20
The EDP Cycle remains relevant! There is one phase of the grade 5-12 EDP cycle that every classroom participant can relate to, whether student or teacher, and that is “Build a model or Prototype.” In the K-4 EDP Cycle, this component is labeled “Evaluate.”
The “Build a Model or Prototype/Evaluate phase is continuously being applied in business using the word Beta test. Here is an example from current business news that fits with all of the snow of the Winter season.
The Snowbot is a square robot that shovels snow! Here it is in action!
‘https://youtu.be/8W6yC-u-8_A
Currently in development and Beta text by the company – https://www.thesnowbot.com/pages/become-a-beta-tester
STEM/STEAM Application:
Have you ever participated in a Beta test? It might be a fun class activity to show the Snowbot videos to Students who would serve in the role of Focus Group participants! What do you think about this and/or what other EDP applications come to mind when viewing the Snowbot videos?
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