Kia ora art historians.
Yesterday we talked in class about our roles in art history and how we will be moving from being students and teacher to Co-Curators and Thinking Coach. Check out the discussion we had in a padlet.
I also elaborated on the principles that should guide our knowledge building:
I also spent time talking about different ways that we can contribute to knowledge forum.
It can be difficult to figure out where to start, but the main thing to remember is that we are trying to 'build' our knowledge together.
- do you have another interpretation/perspective? Share this to add to our idea diversity.
-What needs explaining? What new questions do we have relating to the big question?Asking questions helps us to improve our ideas
-“Praise” state what you think is a good idea, a helpful piece of information, or a point you agree with and how this is helpful for you This helps to identify the ideas that the group might want to focus on
-“Question” ask a question that will prompt you and the others to think deeper about the issue, or a question to help clarify a point Asking questions that delve beneath the surface help to progress our inquiry
-“Propose” suggest a new idea, new information, new strategy, or new approach to solve your current problem of understanding This helps us to develop our discourse
Check out some amazing examples of knowledge building that happened in class this week. I really love how you are starting to bounce your ideas off of each other.
Getting to know each other will be an ongoing thing.
You'll notice that our welcome page on Knowledge Forum has a number of 'get to know you' type questions. When you are having a brain block in the other views spend some time chatting to each other on the welcome page.
If you have not yet got set up for Knowledge Forum please do this by following these instructions:
We will be using this website for our knowledge building work.
Use this link to create a new account
https://www.kf6.netnz.org/signup
And follow these instructions to create your account and find our 2019 art history community on knowledge fourm.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wsVZEGWCgL6whuxsAH8XiyM3xoL4fQaTWgGpeM2JnI/edit?usp=sharing
Let me know ASAP if you are having any problems with doing so.
You will spend this week working on 2 views; Why do Humans make art, and The Renaissance and Values.
Our knowledge building work will be an ongoing conversation. Use the prompts I mentioned above to help you respond.
With why do humans make art we are going to try to shed more light on ideas. Can we test ideas by finding evidence that agrees or disagrees. Can we ask new question that you might have after having had some think time and a chance to read articles that people had added, if you find people's posts helpful, why so and what piece can you add to the puzzle. This will be onngoing discussion to advance our ideas.
With the 'Renaissance and Values', have a look at the resources on my website and any other relevant resources you find.
https://ah3netnz.weebly.com/late-renaissance-to-mannerism.html
https://ah3netnz.weebly.com/late-renaissance-movies.html (In particular the first documentary 'Body and Soul' in the Andrew Graham Dixon Renaissance series)
Then work on some of the questions I have posted on this view.
We are trying to build a bit of a picture of what the Renaissance was and what was important in this time.
The links to navigate to and from 'why do humans make art' 'the renaissance and values' should be on the left hand side of the page on Knowledge Forum.
The other point I wanted to make was to be sure to communicate with each other during the week. If you are stuck or have a question you could post on Google+.
Go well this week art historians.
"All ideas are improvable"
Yesterday we talked in class about our roles in art history and how we will be moving from being students and teacher to Co-Curators and Thinking Coach. Check out the discussion we had in a padlet.
I also elaborated on the principles that should guide our knowledge building:
- All ideas are valid (diversity)
- All ideas are improvable (we improve thinking through progressive inquiry into the big question)
- We might play different roles (researcher, questioner etc), but everyone has a role to play (community diversity)
- Through discussion new ideas emerge (discourse)
- Evidence is important (authoritative sources)
- Everyone is responsible for growing the knowledge (epistemic agency)
- Anyone can and should advance (work on) any ideas that are put out there in our community (communal responsibility)
I also spent time talking about different ways that we can contribute to knowledge forum.
It can be difficult to figure out where to start, but the main thing to remember is that we are trying to 'build' our knowledge together.
- do you have another interpretation/perspective? Share this to add to our idea diversity.
-What needs explaining? What new questions do we have relating to the big question?Asking questions helps us to improve our ideas
-“Praise” state what you think is a good idea, a helpful piece of information, or a point you agree with and how this is helpful for you This helps to identify the ideas that the group might want to focus on
-“Question” ask a question that will prompt you and the others to think deeper about the issue, or a question to help clarify a point Asking questions that delve beneath the surface help to progress our inquiry
-“Propose” suggest a new idea, new information, new strategy, or new approach to solve your current problem of understanding This helps us to develop our discourse
Check out some amazing examples of knowledge building that happened in class this week. I really love how you are starting to bounce your ideas off of each other.
So what is our focus for this week?
There are a number of new people in our class. If you are new I will send a list of icebreaker activities out to you. Please try to make it a priority to work through these. They are designed to make us more comfortable with each other as a class. If you have been with this class since the beginning please try to make everyone feel welcome by replying to their posts in our community/
Getting to know each other will be an ongoing thing.
You'll notice that our welcome page on Knowledge Forum has a number of 'get to know you' type questions. When you are having a brain block in the other views spend some time chatting to each other on the welcome page.
If you have not yet got set up for Knowledge Forum please do this by following these instructions:
We will be using this website for our knowledge building work.
Use this link to create a new account
https://www.kf6.netnz.org/signup
And follow these instructions to create your account and find our 2019 art history community on knowledge fourm.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15wsVZEGWCgL6whuxsAH8XiyM3xoL4fQaTWgGpeM2JnI/edit?usp=sharing
Let me know ASAP if you are having any problems with doing so.
You will spend this week working on 2 views; Why do Humans make art, and The Renaissance and Values.
Our knowledge building work will be an ongoing conversation. Use the prompts I mentioned above to help you respond.
With why do humans make art we are going to try to shed more light on ideas. Can we test ideas by finding evidence that agrees or disagrees. Can we ask new question that you might have after having had some think time and a chance to read articles that people had added, if you find people's posts helpful, why so and what piece can you add to the puzzle. This will be onngoing discussion to advance our ideas.
With the 'Renaissance and Values', have a look at the resources on my website and any other relevant resources you find.
https://ah3netnz.weebly.com/late-renaissance-to-mannerism.html
https://ah3netnz.weebly.com/late-renaissance-movies.html (In particular the first documentary 'Body and Soul' in the Andrew Graham Dixon Renaissance series)
Then work on some of the questions I have posted on this view.
We are trying to build a bit of a picture of what the Renaissance was and what was important in this time.
The links to navigate to and from 'why do humans make art' 'the renaissance and values' should be on the left hand side of the page on Knowledge Forum.
The other point I wanted to make was to be sure to communicate with each other during the week. If you are stuck or have a question you could post on Google+.
Go well this week art historians.
"All ideas are improvable"
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