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Week 11: Poster Ideation + 1-1 feedback session

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Rapid Ideation Exercise: Random words Some sketch mock ups using random words as inspiration (Inspo words from left, top down: Circle, Broken, Light, Key, Book, Game, Bold, Book x2, Book x3, Water): These are the mini A5 sketch ideas I took into Karl Kane's friday feedback session. When going over these with my peers, we talked about the pros and cons of each. The bottom right two stood out the best, and we talked about combining those into one poster idea. When Karl came around to talk, he quite liked the 'lets turn the page on education' idea. His overall comments were: he liked the ideation process I went through to get to here, he liked the range of ideas, however he mentioned they all took quite a negative tone, they were all quite problem focused not solution focused. He proposed that the 'turn the page' concept would be perfect for combining a positive/ negative, solution/ problem contrast between the layered posters. I love this idea and will develo...

Week 11: Proposal Structure Workshop

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Week 11: Teaching Methods for Engagement

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How to incorporate diverse teaching methods into education resource design: http://campusutra.com/ContentEvent.aspx?id=2908&name=62-teachers-both-private-&-govt%2C-from-across-the-State-will-be-felicitated-for-their-%u201cIdeal-Teaching-Methodologies.%u201d Could this teacher resource create a template structure for a story... that encompasses both learning lessons, as well as the different learning styles of engagement? How to create stories for older children in ways that don't come across as 'lame' or 'kidsy'?

***Week 11: Deep Dive into Creative Practice Theories

Week 11: Inspo

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Pettus, B. ’Justifying ART and Art Education.’ Create Art with Mrs. P! Blogger, 20 Mar. 2014. createartwithme.blogspot.com/2014/03/justifying-art-and-art-education.html Saw this poster pop up on my news feed today, really great summary of why creativity and arts is so important in education. And not just in the stereotypical visual arts classroom. My project is about creating teacher resources that help diversify class content. However when making a prototype it's probably a good idea for me to choose one class, or at least begin with one area from which to diversify. Eg, how can I bring creativity and other soft skills and learning styles into English?