Getting hands-on with technology and with a bit of iPad-aided wow effect. The 3D hologram project was a journey started with a sense of wonder and a lot of persistence. Let's get this straight - the learners stumbled upon this and wanted to experiment with the cool gadget in their hands. For some reasons, though, the learning coaches appeared to be getting them off this track in the name of inquiry learning. But the maker instinct said yes! It was a wonderful combination of the original and the secondary, the real and the illusionary, the projected and the projected again!
Is inquiry learning just about formulating questions?
Are we falling into the pit of the rhetoric?
Does having a concept of an outcome prevent you from
engaging in the process?
How are we embracing all types of learners if
all we want them to do is to be able to justify themselves by
answering and asking questions?
If you don't do, how will you ever know?
Do it - with all you've got
Daemon Jun Nathan Nirav
OJC learners Daemon, Jun, Nathan, and Nirav were inspired by a perspective workshop to create illusions. They set out on a quest to make the iPad screen come alive by creating holograms. They did this with all they'd got - I wasn't sure how they even managed to find CD covers but they did! Although we had a full design tech workshop and plenty of Perspex available. . . they just wanted to do this in the most primitive way possible, shown by a youtuber.. 🤯
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| [translating something from the screen onto paper wasn't as simple as some may have though..] |
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| [back when I still had cool glasses and stylish hair..] |
It seems that art killed God, which the designers are justifying themselves to replace.
Articulating what you've done
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| Inquiring: Conversation with Cilla |
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[documentation from the learners]
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Celebrating where you're at
Learning is so instinctive and full of joy, so should a celebration of learning. At OJC we value the impact of a Learning Expo where members of the public are invited to join us in sharing the journeys that our learners have taken to arrive at a metacognitive state of 'having learnt something.' These moments are full of buzz, generating new connections with some potential to a different direction.
So here's my question: When was the last time that you were excited and wanted to share your discovery with someone?
🔥 The Art Bonfire
The advance of technology has helped to add a new dimension to participatory art. Dealing with the notion of reality, our being has been challenged and reduced to exist in sensory perceptions. This practice could be said to date back to the pre-historical era where our ancestors held storytelling rituals. I guess in a contemporary sense, they are called collaborative immersive art installations.
Immersive Art
Semi-Permanent is my ritual...
The beauty of art education is that you do not need to 'dumb down' anything. Art is exciting and engaging as it is. The urge to art is instinctive.
art. verb. Realising one's being through the act of making/doing art, and gaining sensibility of and appreciation for the arts in the process; in other words, becoming a real human being through art. - Huang Rambles, 2018.
Love it. Do it!
