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Flipped Classrooms

• Homework is part of the classroom, lecture is done at home
• Traditional Classroon
• Teacher: Sage on the Stage
• Flipped Classroom
• Teacher: Guide on the Side
•   Students can learn at his or her own speed 
• Positives
• Can increase interaction and personalized learning between students and teacher

• Students take responsibility for their own learning
• Absent students don't get left behind
• Content can be varied easy for differentiated learning
• Disadvantages
• Internet access
• Preparing videos for students
• Students who don't cover material are unprepared
• May lose fluidity of a classroom discussion
• More appropriate for secondary classrooms
• Flipped classroom is not:
• All about videos
• Replacing the teachers with videos
• Online course
• Students working without structure
• Students working in isolation
• In the art classroom
• Can allow for creative discussions online
• May be more comfortable voicing opinions online
• Allows for more studio time 
• Many schools supply technology
• Google Docs

Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)

•  Schools infuse technology into curriculum
• Prepares students for future technology and living
• Emphasizes core subjects, but has been expanding
• The more students learn early on, the more they can learn later
• Teaches students how to learn and how to think instead of what to think
• Teaches information and communication, thinking and problem solving, interpersonal and self-directional skills
• Using computers, networking, audio, and video multimedia tools
• Make content relevant to students lives
• Brings the world into the classroom
• Gives students a way to interact with each other
• Learns global awareness, financial, economic, and business literacy
• Assessments
• Standardized testing 
• Assessment must be reinforced through instruction
• Makes teachers stay in touch with technology
• Helps students get the most out of education and prepares for student learning and the future 
• 4 Components
• Creativity
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking

Visual Culture Studies

What is it?

- Visual culture is the study of cultural aspects that rely on visual images. These can include cultural history, critical theory in media, and anthropology.

- Visual culture is primarily consumer-culture driven based on popular media. These medias are defined as a hybrid of texts, images, and sounds, rather than pure states of any one mode.

Examples:

·      Print images and graphic design

·      TV and cable TV

·      Film and video in all interfaces and playback/display technologies

·      Computer interfaces and software design

·      Internet/Web as a visual platform

·      Digital multimedia

·      Advertising in all media (a true cross-media institution)

·      Fine art and photography

·      Fashion

·      Architecture, design, and urban design

With these in mind, list some more specific examples….. 6 or more.

Implementation (how it is used in schools):

- The classroom should offer a wide variety of visual culture with imagery referring to contemporary events in the world, visual examples of famous work and visual references to the content that is being discussed.

- When developing design or ideas for a project students refer to visual culture, and their surroundings in every day life, in order to better interpret what they are trying to achieve in their work.

What is one other way that you could implement visual culture in your classroom?

Relativity to Art Education:

Art Teacher: Art teachers need to be able to in cooperate visual culture into the classroom because it surrounds students every day in their lives, both inside and outside school. What we see and what is around us greatly influences the type of art we make and getting students to see and understand this is crucial.

- Provides many opportunities to decode and reconstruct conventional understandings of the world

- Explore rich pedagogical practices that critically examine social issues and encourage students to reflect deeply on both matters of the external and the internal.

Why is visual culture important to you as a teacher? How does it impact you/your teaching?

Students: It is important for students to be able to understand, comprehend, critique and comment on visual images they see in our culture as well as other cultures. Visual culture also serves to increase the relevancy of art instruction for students.

- Serves as a means to facilitate the development of higher order thinking skills that can assist students in their ability to navigate the infinite groups of signs aimed at shaping them inside and outside the art classroom. (Barker, 2010)

- (Popular) visual culture and (popular) media to communicate meaning and affect social change. (Barker, 2010)

- Raise awareness within the student, regarding internal biases and resistances to new forms of knowledge. (Barker, 2010)

In what ways has visual culture been incorporated into your education?