Education & The Arts O Fall 2022

Announcement   Beyond the Sounds of Silence. Latin-American Artists Connecting Sound, Art, and Society https://www.lowe.miami.edu/exhibitions/current-upcoming/index.html   Live Performances by sound artists from Beyond the Sounds of Silence Saturday, Oct 1, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lowe Art Museum 1301 Stanford Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146 Beyond the Sounds of Silence: Latin American Artists Connecting Art, Sound and Society Closing Event featuring live Performances by sound artists Gustavo Matamoros and Richard Gare   Part I   WARM UP   Activity 1 Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up.  In previous classes, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up,  self-affirmations,  meditation , mindfulness and relaxation techniques.   Question 1   How would you implement the warm up done ...

  Pending   I   The Ethnosphere By Wade Davis The class will be introduced to National Geographic's Explorer Wade Davis who teaches about what he calls the ethnosphere, a word he uses to describe  the imaginative contributions of humanity to the planet. He makes emphasis on people's stories. They are global resources, just like air, water, and green life.  Just like the biosphere, the ethnosphere is also  threatened by rampant modernization and globalization.  (22:19 min) Question 1   According to Wade Davis what is the ethnosphere?   II   Video   Collage   Artist Jacob Intilé   Turning Pages of Magazines Into Surreal Collages   Jacob Intilé is a Vancouver based artist who captures the seriousness of each creature as we realize them in nature. However, through his work he is able to give them new depth in their collaged transformations. They become kings or emperors from another dimension. As ...

  I   WARM UP Mindfulness   II    Creative Storming Students simulate the creation of a shaped object and pass it to the next student. Each student changes the object using hand gestures.   Question 1 Write a reflection about the activity and explain how you thing it could help your students.    ----------------------      III    Developmental Theories Hierarchy of Needs - Maslow Multiple Intelligences - Gardner Theory of Cognitive Development - Piaget Zone of Proximal Development _ Vygotsky Progressive Education (Learning By Doing) - Dewey Montessori Theory of Teaching (Child chooses what to learn) - Montessori Theory of Psychological Development - Erickson Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist who developed one of the most popular and influential theories of development. While his theory was impacted by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's work , Erikson's theory centered on psychosocial development rather than psychosexua...

I   WARM UP   Activity 1 Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's  muscle groups - isolation  warm up.  In previous classes, we added  conscious breathing  at the end of the warm up,   self-affirmations  and  meditation . Today, we are adding  mindfulness , a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.   Question 1 What is the message in this video? How did you feel after the warm up today? Post your answer on Discussion Board. ----------------------      II    INTRO TO LEARNING THEORIES Today we will introduce the different learning theories used in most educational systems around the world. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the foll...

  I  Warm Up   II Educational Article   Teaching and Learning: Lost in a Buzzword Wasteland   Questions 1. How did teaching get this way? What be done to move teaching forward? (4th paragraph) 2. How do we break out of the unproductive cycle & move teaching forward? (8th paragraph) 3. What would such a theory of student learning look like? ------------------ III   The Ethnosphere By Wade Davis The class will be introduced to National Geographic's Explorer Wade Davis who teaches about what he calls the ethnosphere, a word he uses to describe  the imaginative contributions of humanity to the planet. He makes emphasis on people's stories. They are global resources, just like air, water, and green life.  Just like the biosphere, the ethnosphere is also  threatened by rampant modernization and globalization.  (22:19 min) Question 4   According to Wade Davis what is the ethnosphere?   Question 5   According to Wade Dav...

   I   WARM UP   Activity 1 Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's  muscle groups - isolation  warm up.  We add  conscious breathing  at the end of the warm up,   self-affirmations  and  meditation .   Question 1 Is this warm up useful? Post your answer on Discussion Board. ---------------------- Part II    BOOK REVIEW    Today we will introduce Jon Taylor Gato's work on education. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the following questions: Book Review: Dumbing Us Down Question 2 What do you think about Gato's ideas as  expressed   in this review?   ------------------ III   Activity 2  Please, read the following chapter.   The 7 Lesson School Teacher   https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dumbing_Us_Down/IF8f0SsGXnwC?h...

  I Review Ideas About Art 1 Based on Plato's philosophical reflection on the arts and beauty,  the artist copies the experienced object, or uses it as a model for his work. For the philosopher, on the other hand, beauty resides in the idea and not in sensible things.   2 For Aristotle beauty is contained in symmetry, which he considers the symbol of perfection, linked to the classic concept of beauty: harmony, order and proportion. 3 Baumgarten,  reaffirmed that the essence of beauty could not occur without the discovery of aesthetic sensible pleasure. The beautiful and the aesthetic are not alien to the sensitive. What comprises the artistic is given through sensibility. 4 Baumgarten proposes aesthetics as a science of sensible knowledge, which deals with beauty. "The end of aesthetics is the perfection of sensible knowledge as such and this is beauty."  5 Kant is interested in art for its connection with beauty, not for art itself. Beauty, acc...