Thanks for dropping in on the Wired To Learn installation!
Please take a moment to add a comment below regarding any of the following questions:
- How did the media/interviews presented in this exhibit resonate with you?
- How do you feel education should be conducted in the 21st century?
- What was/is your educational experience in high school (i.e. Did/Do you like school? Did/Do you have a mentor?…)
All questions and comments are welcome.
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About cayoup
Colleen Ayoup was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She has been engaged in media creation for nearly twenty years. After attending the Dawson Institute of Photography (Montreal), she worked as a commercial photographer for several years until the craving for different creative pursuits gave way. This desire led to two subsequent degrees in Psychology/Film Studies and Film Production (B.A., B.F.A) at Concordia University in Montreal. Her short fiction films and documentary, Kings (2001), about drag-king culture in Montreal toured festivals internationally. In 2004, she joined the National Film Board of Canada where she coordinated Doc Shop, a program designed to give emerging filmmakers an opportunity to learn trade skills from industry professionals and produce a short documentary for broadcast on CBC. She also contributed to the development and creation of CitizenShift (citizenshift.org), the NFB’s first social-media website that she subsequently coordinated for five years. She is a recent graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Documentary Media at Ryerson University (Toronto, ON)
Really interesting stuff, Coll!
Hard for me to comment on the above questions because my high school experiences in two different schools were quite disparate from what is presented here.
I’d have to say, though–listening to what the students in the film clips are saying–the installation is proabably more interesting to me as a former teacher/instructor, esp. the things I never considered might be going through students’ heads (though my students were out of high school).
Question two: not enough time or space to answer here! All I will say is: Waldorf.
Qestion three: I actually loved both of my high schools, though they were diametrically opposite one another. But I can say that I preferred the teaching curriculum and methodologies at my private school.
Great job, Coll! Really interesting work!
Amazing job colleen! I love your interviews with students and teachers and the way you’vec connected the content, the locations of the interviews and how you set it up to watch them side by side on a blackboard. It all takes me back to my school days in hamilton for sure and i can definitely relate to a lot of the points you and the people you’ve interviewed have brought up. Congratulations on realizing the vision! I gotta say i felt intimidated by the terms in the math test lol…so i started to answer them but felt dumb and stopped – hoping that was the point? lol
xoxo
Also wanted to add the audio interviews are super interesting! Many people were intimidated to come listen to them on the computers, so maybe having them play aloud before the video reel starts would work better to have more people hear them….