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  2. Contemporary Art & Open Learning //// Course Handbook //// Semester 1 //// ARTX10064 | 2022
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Week 4 | Playtesting Art Assignments

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Week 4 | Playtesting Art Assignments

 

The learning is what’s important, rather than the learning’s outcomes.

Please complete the Class assignment outlined below.

Completing the class assignment will help you gain an understanding the mechanics of how art assignments function and enable you to learn Learning Theory.

To understand this, you will be playtesting two art assignments this morning.

Playtest 1

10:00 Form a triad again with members of your Basho

In your triad (group of three), review some of the assignments from one of the case studies listed here:

Learning to Love You More

or

The Art Assignment

or

@artassignbot

Take your time looking through the examples and discuss them as a group.

10:30am Choose a single assignment from one of the three case studies:

Find just one assignment that your triad all agree would be the most interesting for you all to follow individually.

The assignment will have to be completed within 30mins.

You all must try to pick something that will last no more than 30mins.

Figure out how to take part in the assignment on your own.

10:45am Complete the art assignment on your own

Take part in the assignment on your own.

11:10am Discuss the assignment in your Triad

Return to your Triad and discuss what you produced and your different experiences of the assignment.

A key question you should seek to address here is this:

Can this art assignment be considered to enable or facilitate open learning?

Playtest 2

11:30am In your triad, return to the art assignment case studies:

Learning to Love You More

or

The Art Assignment

or

@artassignbot

You will not have to take so long this time when deciding what to work with.

11:40am Choose something different from one of the three options:

Find one different assignment that your triad all agree would be the next most interesting for you all to follow individually.

This time, the assignment will have only 15 mins to run.

You all must try to pick something that will last no more than 15mins.

Again, figure out how to take part in the assignment on your own.

11:50am Complete the art assignment on your own

Take part in the assignment on your own.

12:15am Discuss the assignment in your Triad

Return to your Triad and discuss what you produced and your different experiences of the assignment.

A key question you should seek to address here is this:

Can this art assignment be considered to enable or facilitate paragogy?

What next? (Portfolio work)

Let’s return here to the course learning outcomes in relation to Sprint 2 of this open course and the Sprint 2: Problem Scenario. A reminder of the course LOs:

LO1 – creatively respond to artistic assignments and provide constructive feedback that supports peer learning

LO2 – research, design, run and document a workshop that teaches an aspect of your practice

LO3 – critically reflect upon what you have learned by researching, designing, running and documenting your workshop

Repository of Playtested Art Assignments 

Today you have been engaging with LO1 – creatively respond to artistic assignments and provide constructive feedback that supports peer learning.
So that you can LO3 – critically reflect upon what you have learned by researching, designing, running and documenting, you should ensure you capture this process (i.e. LO2 – research, design, run and document a workshop that teaches an aspect of your practic)
To enable this, in your Basho’s MS Teams Channel and in your Portfolio, make a list of all the Assignments that your Basho playtested today. For example:

Since you now have some idea of how they play out in practice, the assignments playtested by members of your Basho can now be used in your own critical reflection on Art Assignments.

Reflective Analysis of Playtested Art Assignments 

Let’s now turn to these two LOs:

LO3 – critically reflect upon what you have learned by researching, designing, running and documenting your workshop

Developing your own critical discussion of how you tackled your art assignment and reviewed it from a learning theory perspective will be a useful way to reflect further on how you are learning and how you are coming to understand learning design.

Documenting your critically reflection  – how you think about assignments – at this stage will be informative for you in a few weeks time.

When you look back at how you engaged with this, you may surprise yourself!

    1. Post the name of one of the art assignments, its web address (URL) and your response to it in your Portfolio for Open Learning.
    2. Write a little Reflective Analysis about how the assignment went to capture your thoughts at this point in time (just a few words will suffice. You might want to consider the following questions as prompts here:
        1. Aims/Objectives: What do you think worked here? What didn’t?
        2. Mechanics: Would you change something to make the assignment run differently/better?
        3. Timing: Could you complete the Assignment it in 20mins, 15mins, 10mins….?
        4. Prep: Did you need to prepare extensively for the Assignment or could you work with it immediately? (Problem Scenario) Did you require lots of resources to begin working on the Assignment?
        5. Learners: (Problem Scenario) Did the Assignments “avoid making assumptions about the learners that will use” them?
    3. What you record and write here will help you to complete the 500 words of Reflective Analysis of your learning and of the learning design you are following (i.e. the art assignment itself) as part of your Sprint 2 Portfolio post (500 words).

Want to do some more Reflective Analysis?

Buildling on LO3 – critically reflect upon what you have learned by researching, designing, running and documenting your workshop, you could do the following:

  1. Use one or more of the learning theories outlined above to unpack the assignment. e.g.
  2. How might you consider your experience of this art assignment from a
    1. constructivist perspective?
    2.  connectivist perspective?
    3.  critical pedagogy perspective?

This additonal Reflective Analysis is something that you might also wanto to rework to include as part of your Sprint 2 Portfolio post (500 words).

How you tackled your art assignments by reviewing them from a learning theory perspective could be a useful way to reflect further on how you are learning and how you are coming to understand learning design. How might you do this?

  1. Post the name of one of the art assignments, its web address (URL) and your response to it in your Portfolio for Open Learning.
  2. Write a little Reflective Analysis about how the assignment went to capture your thoughts at this point in time (just a few words will suffice) What do you think worked here? What didn’t? Would you change something to make the assignment run differently/better? Can you do it in 20mins, 15mins, 10mins….?
  3. What you record and write now will help you to complete the 500 words of Reflective Analysis of your learning and of the learning design you are following (i.e. the art assignment itself) as part of your Sprint 2 Portfolio post (500 words).

Curate a collage of connections

Another way of engaging with LO3 – critically reflect upon what you have learned by researching, designing, running and documenting your workshop, would be to do the following:

As a means of think about what Art Assignments might have in common, trying mapping them out in the form of a collage. Art Assignments do not exist in isolation. What forms of creative learning are Art Assignments drawing on?

You may with to revisit one or more of the Assignments you playtested today to consider how they relate to:

    • Other Art Assignments
    • “Toolkits”
    • Cultural traditions (perhaps passed on tacitly)
    • Contemporary works of art / art project

 

To remember your train of thought here, you can simply collage what you find in your Portfolio.

For example:

This

Art Assignment https://www.wickedartsassignments.com/assignments/names/save-the-life-of-a-broken-object has coorelations with this…

Cultural tradition (Japanese Kintsugi https://mymodernmet.com/kintsugi-kintsukuroi/)

which, in turn, coorelates with this…

Contemporary art project:(Tobias Sternberg’s Temporary Art Repair Workshop held at ESW http://artrepairshop.com/wordpress/)

As a collage:

2021-02-12 12:16:49 Isabeau Limburg

Isabeau Limburg 2021-02-12 12:16:49 Save the Life of a Broken Object https://www.wickedartsassignments.com/assignments/names/save-the-life-of-a-broken-object/2021-02-12-12-16-49

 

Photo: Stock Photos from Lia_t/Shutterstock

kintsugi, the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. Photo: Stock Photos from Lia_t/Shutterstock

Tobias Sternberg – Temporary Art Repair Workshop http://artrepairshop.com/wordpress/

Learning Sprint 2: Open Toolkits

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