Monday, November 12, 2012

Tiny Variations create recurrent impact

SC: Tiny variations create recurrent impact
unit question: How does little thing change the world?

Narrative approach --Concrete example

Tuning in
Review the SC,AOI and unit question, write down on the whiteboard.
Short briefting about the definition of "The butterfly effect."

Task
Guiding question: How do initial ideas drive creativity?
Students to watch a video clip of Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously.
http://www.ted.com/talks/janet_echelman.html
Inspired by the video, answer the unit question and elaborate the understanding of SC.

Class discussion before they accomplish the task
Knowledge:Students take turns to create a flowchart based on the storyline of the video on the whiteboard.
Analyse: Teacher to explain the changes of ideas affected by the environment and materials from one to another stages. How does the initial idea being carried out? How big the impact can be?
Sythesize: Based on the narrative example, students to make connection in order to answer the unit question.
Create: This will be a sample flowchart for your summative assessment. How does your idea grow?
Do you see the butterfly effect now?



Step 1: Uthaiya to elaborate the storyline. Teacher goes around to give individual guidance and ensure differentiated learners are well taken care of especially those who have language proficiency issue.

Step 2: Explain the cause and consequences of the change from each to another stages.
Why is the change of material?
The story started from a great "fall", the artist arrived in India but loss her paints in the journey.
She was considering ot use local media, bronze as replacement but the cost is too high. How does she resolve the problem? (related to our previous SC: destruction as a path for creation.)

She walked around the beach and get her initial idea from the fisherman.
She started her first sculpture"wide hips" using fishing nets, slowly developed into a bigger scale collaborate with local fisherman. Through years, the idea growing big involving industiral included both manufacturing and enginering field to fulfill the artist's dream. The impact of the original idea growing from one to another city. Scale and materials changing from time to time.
Provoke different perspectives based on the storyline. Ask students to think about the changes of the artist as a person, and the changes of an initial idea to huge sculpture, changes of materials from different circumstances.

Step 3: Students to write down their reflection and thoughts in DW.


Homework--Preparation for next week studio practical work
Investigation on William Morris's art work. Patterns making start from a basic form.

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