Learning, Development, Art, and Digital Media
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This document discusses using creative and visual methods to explore identities. It provides examples of projects where students used media like photography and video to learn about their communities and express their identities. These methods help students communicate in meaningful ways, assume they have interesting contributions, and avoid treating them as a passive audience. The creative process can increase self-efficacy, validation, and feelings of agency and empowerment.
Learning, Development, Art, and Digital Media
- 1. LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT, ART, AND DIGITAL MEDIA COMT 115 Cody Marshall Jasmine Wang
- 2. ACTIVITY Draw a picture of who you think you are.
- 3. CREATIVE AND VISUAL METHODS FOR EXPLORING IDENTITIES Gauntlett and Holzwarth Communicate in a meaningful way about identities enabling methodology assuming the participant has something interesting to contribute Schoolchildren used video equipment to make videos about the environment language as expression Drawings of celebrities drawing rather than celebrity to express ones desires
- 4. CREATIVE AND VISUAL METHODS FOR EXPLORING IDENTITIES Gauntlett and Holzwarth Creative methodologies instant description of views creation as different way to answer questions visual plane || visual nature of pop culture recognizes and embraces creativity/re鍖exivity avoids treating individuals as audience
- 5. CREATIVE AND VISUAL METHODS FOR EXPLORING IDENTITIES Gauntlett and Holzwarth Lego Serious Play Metaphors for organizational identities aspects of identity rather than events
- 6. CREATIVE AND VISUAL METHODS FOR EXPLORING IDENTITIES Gauntlett and Holzwarth Using hands and body as well as the mind to express ones identity Merleau-Ponty: the body and mind are inseparable Foucault: people are tied down by discourses Goffman: front and back stage; performance according to an audience
- 7. CREATIVE AND VISUAL METHODS FOR EXPLORING IDENTITIESGauntlett and Holzwarth Creative Methods to understand how people learn Importance of experimentation
- 8. CODYS EXPERIENCE Media Arts Center of SD We made documentaries about neighborhood. (pollution/health/art) (Enabling Methodology- assumes that individuals have something interesting to say) Interesting because despite having lived in the community for some time, a lot of us were learning this for the 鍖rst time. Sense of knowing the community- in knowing your community- we can be more in touch with our identities. Helped us develop social consciousness in a community where many youth are apolitical and educationally underperforming Crucial for youth; con鍖dence/personal well being/school performace http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-youth-voices/i-want-my-parents-back/
- 9. PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUTH CONNECTIONS TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD Rudkin and Davis Paid to do workshops and to photograph their neighborhood. Rated their own photographs on how they depicted their neighborhood Study was about how those scored correlated with the criterion measures Criterion measures = a measure of how connected the youth are to their neighborhood
- 10. PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUTH CONNECTIONS TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD Rudkin and Davis
- 11. PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUTH CONNECTIONS TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD Rudkin and Davis Criterion Measures sense of community index neighborhood youth inventory collective ef鍖cacy
- 12. PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUTH CONNECTIONS TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD Rudkin and Davis Arts can be a medium through which agency is manifested; youth validate themselves through the process of creation.
- 13. J艶壊壊庄界温 Hunter AUTUMN EDOWS
- 14. PBS: GROWING UP ONLINE Private world outside parents reach Internet identities Self Expression Cyber-bullying
- 15. USING THE ARTS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING McDonald, Sarch辿, and Wang Examination of how the arts help people identify, enhance and represent their community photovoice
- 16. USING THE ARTS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND COMMUNITY BUILDING McDonald, Sarch辿, and Wang The act of creating increases feelings of well-being Self Ef鍖cacy: Healing/empowering/validating (Black is beautiful) Crucial to explore ways in which youth can validate themselves through the process of creating.
- 17. PAOLO FRIERE Teaching people to read while at the same time teaching them about the social conditions in which they live Turns learners into agents
- 18. THE ARTS IN THE PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING get people involved Find out about a community Change awareness (and relay health ed. messages) Attract attention to an issue (or changing the way an issue is perceived) Promote community building
- 19. CONNECTION TO CHRISTENSEN Art is a means by which things are made more meaningful; in constructing meaning, we facilitate learning.
- 20. TCLC EXAMPLES Mural at TCLC. Codys (potential) video project Garden Healthy Snack Digital Storytelling
- 21. DISCUSSION How did your self portraits help manifest your agency in identity-expression? How have we seen some of the kids at T&C Learning Center use art and new media to express themselves better than they might with words? Hascreating visual media helped you personally in developing a sense of identity and/or belonging within a community? How and through what means? Does whats being created matter? Whats meaningful?