Month: October 2020

Comment 1:

Hey, Japanese teacher thank you for sharing these concepts so deeply and I find it is interesting to read with those little pictures. Sometimes pictures give more clear information than a bench of a long paragraph. It is easy to understand the steps and reasons when you break down into steps. I like how you say do brainstorm first because people do not do that often and just skip this part really easy. However, brainstorm is a way of processing so people should see and discuss brainstorm ideas together then write the project. It is easy to follow and change when we have plans first. And I definitely agree that is the new way for introverted people like me and have some interesting way to express myself!!

Comment 2:

Hey, Candice Shang, I like how you understanding and explain the backward bike part. I feel the same way and he definitely did change the bike ride to a new thing to learn. When you view the world or item differently you will find it hard to understand or confuse first but it was a good way to challenge your brain ability. If we can not find a solution in one way why don’t we try another way right? I never thought this until you mention it. Thank you for pointing that out. And I also like your experience with drum class. I am thinking to take that class next year. After listening to your story, I am more interested in that class because I am shy too and I was gaining more confidence through some classes like that!

Comment 3:

Hey, Jiaxiaozi, thank you for sharing the cooperative learning understanding. I am hoping that maybe you can change your background? Because the red part of the person it overlapped with the words. So I am worried about our professor will not clear to see your point. However, I like how to explain cooperative learning relate to public goods. I want to know more about public goods and what is public good and how your group teaching us. I am not quite understanding what public goods is there. Overall, I think we definitely need cooperative learning in the economy because the different groups have a different point of view. I think people have one goal to achieve is to make the economy more successful in their own country. I think you want to talk about more cooperative learning to gain more benefits for public goods.

Comment 4:

Hey group member!! I like your video and I think we should definitely put this in our teaching. That is an amazing activity to let students do free drawing and compare it with a given topic and no topic. I find that will be an interesting comparison. To read through this I want to involve this activity too can I join?? I like how you said everyone can be an artist and give those children to build more confidence. It was a creative way to help children to express themselves in a clear way.

Comment 5:

Hey, Yirunjin, I like how to say interaction is a long-term learning habit, especially through those days. We kind of lack interactions due to covid-19 but we can find different ways to interact with other people. I agree nowadays there are thousands and thousands of videos out in the internet world, so people need to make the videos interesting to attract the audience’s eyes. If there is no interaction with each other, people will feel lonely and have more problems with psychological issues. People should at least connect to each other no matter in what way.

The video is teaching students how to draw properly and what is the meaning of composition in art. The lecture delivered through computer technology and make interactions with online resources like YouTube videos. Some media and video may “push” learners to respond like pop quiz when you finish you can continue to play the video, but this video did not force learners to do any pop quiz or response anything. It was playing very smoothly using good examples combined with visual explanations.

Students need to learn something after watching this video, so they need to take several notes when they are watching this video. I would like to make an activity to create a high-quality lecture. The best learning environment is mixing material interaction, teacher and student interaction, and students with students’ interaction together. People will gain more interest through a fun activity. Firstly, students will need to watch this video either during their own time or people can watch together in class on a zoom lecture. According to the article “Handwriting vs. Typing: How to Choose the Best Method to Take Notes”, people should take notes by hand to force the brain to involve “deeper cognitive-processing”. Actions and movements may activate your brain while writing notes down. Secondly, due to understanding, students need to draw a picture based on what they learn and all the materials that teach in the video like showing what is balance and how to use color to catch the audience’s eyes. When students did their work, teachers put them into small groups as a breakout room and let them share their drawings. The group needs to choose the best work that represents the idea and post on a classroom discussion board that everyone can see it. Through the second part, teachers will have to check on each group to clarify some misunderstanding concepts and lead the students in the right way. Finally, teachers will give every group feedback about their advantages and disadvantages. Art is a creative design, so it is hard to criticize but students need to understand the basic concepts. Sometimes it can hard to explain through technologies, but we can create an office hour or TA can help with that through zoom.

The activity may take some time to work on it and teachers need to involve during a group meeting in case some group has questions to ask. However, if this takes too much time, we can provide a lab section that TA helps to answer some questions during the group meeting. Interactions will be worth for long term learning habits and understanding those concepts with full supports. This design can be useful for both the classroom environment and online lecture.

Reference: Article-https://effectiviology.com/handwriting-vs-typing-how-to-take-notes/#:~:text=Writing%20notes%20by%20hand%20generally,the%20material%20than%20typing%20it.

Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUZ3PivD6I

Nowadays, people are facing more barriers than before due to covid 19. For example, lectures and studies are all delivered in a classroom environment and people are more likely to engage and interact with each other. However, those days we are no longer be able to make to school so people will be less likely to study at home. I know many teachers are using a zoom meeting as a tool to create a classroom environment but due to privacy and internet safety, many people do not like to put the video on or mic on. As a school, the student community can create a survey to see what those barriers that students facing and what goals they want to achieve. Some students are struggling with times like off country, some people are struggling with understanding the concepts, and some people may struggle with attention.

Due to those difficulties, I think we should make one app that supports individuals to manage their time. The first step, it is letting professors creating both live lectures and video lectures so if people are studying in a different country, they can choose for themselves. I know some people prefer live lectures to force themselves in a face-to-face lecture mood so they can have the opportunity to keep doing that. The second step is making the lectures more fun and simpler. We are facing a different kind of students right now like some people may have the disorder or struggle with technologies. Games and flashcards can make big changes for engagements. Fun stuff and interesting learning way can help to study. Any students may add to what they like in this app to share with other classmates. I would like TA to create a chat bar in this app that could make it easier to chat with questions and students will find it more straightforward than emailing so many times. Finally, we make a timetable builder in this app to attract individuals’ daily lives. During those online study, people need to manage time closely. Students should balance some activity along with studies. When students open this app up, they no longer receive Facebook messages, Snapchat, or limit condition clothes notices. Distractions are a big barrier to step in front of people and block study interest.

This app will require audio or visual options to let people feel comfortable using it since everyone learning styles are different. The design is not only for an online class under this situation, it can also for future uses such as people are busy at work and can not make to the class. Disability students will find this way is more relaxing than sitting in the classroom.

Reference: https://www.northeastern.edu/graduate/blog/tips-for-taking-online-classes/

What is cooperative learning?

Cooperative learning is a way to study or work in a group to achieve same goal. Students will interact with each other to process the lecture lessons. Each student needs to take some responsibilities to help the group out. Some of the lessons can be hard, so students will have to communicate with other members and learn how to work together. The important thing of this method is trying to learn from your competitor and work with your opponent. This method is also a way to help students engage more instead of working by themselves. Nowadays, the society is likely pay attention to individual work so people will be less likely to work together. According to the theory in 1900s, Kurt Koffka found that interdependence is existing among more than one person involve and impact on each other. More people involve will increase the motivation on cooperative and competitive behavior (David W Johnson and Roger T Johnson). Cooperative learning will base on the teacher’s lesson and expand the idea more in a small group. People will be more comfortable to share the ideas in small group.

Cooperative learning in Visual art:

Cooperative learning can be hard for visual art depend on what is the project. Because of the individual thinking, everyone will have their own creative idea. However, it will be helpful if people do step by step. For example, when one person has no idea what to do, the group can do brainstorm together. And figure out the best way to express the whole feeling. Visual art involves full of knowledge and creativity, so when the small group have different ideas, they can share their ideas with each other. Different background and different imagination may help to gain knowledge through this activity. Visual art is a big piece to achieve like sometime students need to draw an art on wall. This method can reduce individual pressure, and everyone have chance to work on something. People will learn how to draw with other people and take the responsibility to support other members. I believe if people use more cooperative learning, the art will be much different and mixture due to new ideas.

Use cooperative learning in learning resource:

I think this cooperative learning idea will help our group project. My group project is focusing on grade 6 to 8 students and teach them how to use painting to express their feeling in a collaborative mural assignment. This method can be really helpful because grade 6 to 8 students do not have full of experience so they can learn a lot from other group members. Learning with same age students are actually quicker than teacher directly teaching lessons. Students will find more fun to share their stories and ideas. Cognitive and human interactive are developing fast during young ages. Students may build more self confidence and engagement through this project. If students are using this method repeatedly, it will be easier to help them build retrieval memory. When they attend work in future, they can use this knowledge to work with other people.

Reference:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341495725_Usage_of_Cooperative_Teaching_Method_in_Visual_Arts_Education

http://www.co-operation.org/what-is-cooperative-learning