Show my process
Explained my outcome
Linked to vocabulary
Found multiple possibilities
I preserved through the work
Eliminated carelessness
My Learning Objectives
1. Recognize how new media art can influence the learners in different ways
2. Identify ways to make technology/ media art available to educators/learners
3.Investigate how to use technology/ media art in a way that is enjoyable for everyone with different skill levels
Looking over my blog/ posts, I feel as if I have successfully met all my learning objectives. Being from a "traditional art background", I was "afraid" of new media art. But after learning about various medium within new media art, and reading articles (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/teaching-blind-students-with-3-d-prints/) about how it helps students and students with disabilities can benefit from these mediums. Having students from the current generation, we as educators have to understand how technology is a huge part of their lives. It may be a foreign subject for us but this may be the only way some students can learn and understand certain subjects/ topics.
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the classroom article really opened up my eyes on how to having technology-infused materials doesn't require a fancy/ high-tech equipment. Introducing to something simple as making a podcast, something I listen to every day, did not cross my mind and didn't see the potential of having an "artistic" approach to it. Technology-infused materials are definitely something that is available for all educators, we just have to be creative and really think outside of the box.
I think working on my own assignments and also seeing my classmate's projects allowed me to understand how different technology. media art is applicable to all students, and even educators, at different levels. For example the last project with basic circuits, my project was simple and followed the template that was provided. But Avery's project was very advanced and more thought was put into it. It was a challenging process to make sure that the circuits worked but it was still an enjoyable process and definitely a great learning process as well.
By taking the SELFIE, I was consciously thinking about showing my process, and thinking how it is important to visually show my students the steps that can go into a project with technological materials. Explaining my outcome taught me how to verbally explain my process and link the vocabulary to my work. It is important for educators to explain the process behind projects and "tell a story" about a certain idea to my students, and having to explain my outcome was a stepping stone that will help me with lesson plans later on. Finding different possibilities of the materials and different possibilities to approach assignments helped me open my eyes to one my learning objectives about how to make new media art accessible and enjoyable for students at different skill levels. I preserved through the work and eliminated carelessness but doing additional research on certain topics when I ran into challenges working out the kinks of using technologies I was unfamiliar with.
You did very good work throughout the semester and many of your creative responses, too, were quite wonderful. I hope you keep using our maker-spaces so you can continue the work, further explore it, and continue to push the limits.
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