Nov
22
“Gutenberg’s invention is the incomparably greatest event in the history of the world.”
~Samuel Clemens, (Mark Twain)
What is often considered as “old media” was the New Media of its historical time.
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Sep
28
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. It is an attempt to find in its forms, in its colors, in its light, in its shadows, in the aspects of matter and in the facts of life what of each is fundamental, what is enduring and essential—their one illuminating and convincing quality—the very truth of their existence. The artist, then, like the thinker or the scientist, seeks the truth and makes his appeal. Impressed by the aspect of the world the thinker plunges into ideas, the scientist into facts—whence, presently, emerging they make their appeal to those qualities of our being that fit us best for the hazardous enterprise of living. They speak authoritatively to our common-sense, to our intelligence, to our desire of peace or to our desire of unrest; not seldom to our prejudices, sometimes to our fears, often to our egoism—but always to our credulity.” ~Joseph Conrad, first read in Julia Alvarez- 10 of My Writing Commandments
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References
Alvarez, J. (1998). Ten of my writing commandments. English Journal, 88(2), 36-41.
Joseph Quotes from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10583734-art-itself-may-be-defined-as-a-single-minded-attempt-to
Sep
11
Reflection on Patriot Day, 2024 and the Healing Impact of Artwork
“The most important factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.” ~Dr. David Ausubel
Diaries, Journals, notes, and transcripts are linguistic artifacts of reflection. These archival artifacts help us to retrace our thoughts and actions (Button, 2023). Diaries, Journals, notes, and transcripts are linguistic artifacts of reflection. These archival artifacts help us to retrace our thoughts and actions (Button, 2023).
Artwork in all media formats is another pivotal act of reflection. “In times of emotional unrest, children often express themselves through art,” (9/11 Museum, 2023). There were 72 million children, most who experienced indirectly the events and trauma of September 11, 2001 (Del Rosario, 2021).
Hope Buzzelli, who was born just two months after September 11, 2001, is the daughter of Pasquale Buzzelli, the structural engineer who was found alive on top of the rubble and ashes of the fallen Twin Towers (Hasson, 2017; History Channel, 2021). Pasquale Buzzelli was trapped inside the north tower of the World Trade Centre as it collapsed, and he fell 18 floors to the ground and was rescued alive and barely injured (60 Minutes Australia, 2021).
Hope, like so many of the children who survived and observed expressed her emotions, memories, and thoughts through art. Today, as a young adult, Buzzelli’s artwork is her emotive outpouring and her vocation as an artist in New York. She still paints wearing the sweatshirt from Ladder 20 FDNY.
Creating and representing events, thoughts, and recollections through artwork is an important expressive and psychological benefit (Malchiodi, 2003; 2018; 2020. Visual renderings stimulate two to three times as much narrative than just talking alone (Gross & Haynes, 1998). A visual collection of 75 renderings by children ages five to eighteen was the result of a collaboration by the New York University Child Study Center and the Museum of the City of New York. In 2002, this artwork was collected in the book “The Day Our World Changed” by Harry Abrams. The Day Our World Changed is on sale through traditional booksellers. This book is also available for reading without charge at the Open Library, a section of the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dayourworldchang00good/page/38/mode/2up?view=theater
For Personal Reflection- only if appropriate and not trauma-inducing for you: Please take a few moments or many minutes to digitally click through the page of artwork contained in the online book, The Day Our World Changed.
References
60 Minutes Australia (2021). 9/11 survivor remembers the horrific terror attacks 20 years later | 60 Minutes Australia. [Video File.]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRpzOaFmUQM
Abrams, H. (2002). The day our world changed. Open Library. https://archive.org/details/dayourworldchang00good/page/38/mode/2up?view=theater
Ausubel, D. P. (1968). Educational psychology: A cognitive view. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Del Rosario, A. (2021). History Channel Sets 9/11 20th Anniversary Programming Slate With Four Documentaries. Deadline. https://deadline.com/2021/08/history-channel-9-11-20th-anniversary-programming-slate-four-documentaries-1234816409/
Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (1998). Drawing facilitates children’s verbal reports of emotionally laden events. Journal of experimental psychology: applied, 4(2), 163. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-898X.4.2.163
Hassan, S. (2017). And then there was Hope. The Valley Echo. https://pvhsecho.com/and-then-there-was-hope/
History Channel (2021). 9/11: The Legacy.
Luke Button Blog, (2023, May 22). 4 Strategies To Remember An Idea That You Forgot. https://www.lukebutton.co/blog/how-to-remember-ideas
Malchiodi, C. (2021). What We Learned from Children’s Drawings of 9/11. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/arts-and-health/202109/what-we-learned-children-s-drawings-911
Malchiodi, C. (2020). Trauma and expressive arts therapy: Brain, body, and imagination in the healing process. New York: Guilford Press.
Malchiodi, C. (2014). Neurobiology, creative interventions and childhood trauma. In C. Malchiodi, (Ed.), Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children (pp. 3- 23). New York: Guilford Press.
Malchiodi, C. (2003). Art therapy and the brain. In C. Malchiodi (ed.), Handbook of Art Therapy (pp. 17-26). New York: Guilford Press.
Jul
9
Engineering Design is focused on problem-solving for authentic issues.
Here is an example from 2022 in which engineering was used to solve the problem of “domain transfer methodology.”
Scientists in Israel, led by Professor Ronen Segev, trained six goldfish to navigate a robot on dry land!
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (https://t.co/ZR59Hu9sib). pic.twitter.com/J5BkuGlZ34
— Ronen Segev (@ronen_segev) January 3, 2022
In an interesting STEAM connection point, each of the goldfish was named after characters in the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (https://t.co/ZR59Hu9sib). pic.twitter.com/J5BkuGlZ34
— Ronen Segev (@ronen_segev) January 3, 2022
If Twitter/X is blocked on your school network, here is a Loom repost
https://x.com/ronen_segev/status/1477889582398164994
Apr
26
“Something told me to draw or die. It was shown to me what I should do.” ~ Minnie Evans, Artist, folk art
Minnie Evans, Untitled
Quoting Source: Perry, R. A. (1992). Free within ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. National Museum of American Art in Association with Pomegranate Art Books.
Image Source: artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00058lldDD3JFgUNECfDrCWQFHPKcEpjG/minnie-evans-untitled.jpg
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Apr
19
“I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen. In a dream it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings. The whole entire horizon all the way across the whole earth was out together like this with pictures. All over my yard, up all the sides of trees and everywhere were pictures.” — Artist Minnie Evans
References
Starr, N. H. (1969). The Lost World of Minnie Evans, The Bennington Review (111), 2 (Summer 1969): 41.
Image Source: https://www.petulloartcollection.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Minnie-Evans.jpg
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Mar
8
“Technological literacy encompasses three interdependent dimensions – knowledge, ways of thinking and acting, and capabilities.” ~National Academy of Engineering, 2002, p. 3.
References
National Academy of Engineering. (2002). Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology. National Academy Press. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10250/technically-speaking-why-all-americans-need-to-know-more-about
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Mar
1
“Peer review allows students to clarify their own ideas as they explain them to classmates and as they formulate questions about their classmates’ writing. This is helpful to writers at all skill levels, in all classes, and at all stages of the writing process.”
~Southwestern University
References
Southwestern University (2020). Benefits of peer review.
https://www.southwestern.edu/offices/writing/faculty-resources-for-writing-instruction/peer-review/benefits-of-peer-review/#:~:text=Peer%20review%20allows%20students%20to,stages%20of%20the%20writing%20process.
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Sep
2
“I wanted the piece … to conjure up an intuitive awareness of the long movements of time required for the creation of a canyon. I also wanted in some way to pay homage to Native Americans, to whom this canyon was a sacred place. And I wanted to capture in music that magical moment which everyone experiences when they first see the flat, treeless High Plains fall dizzyingly away into the colorful vastness of the Palo Duro Canyon itself.” Composer Samuel Jones, Notes to Symphony No. 3 (“Palo Duro Canyon”).
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xiGNcHLEgKc
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Read more about the Palo Duro symphony by Samuel Jones: http://samueljones.net/works.html
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