Comments for WIRED TO LEARN

Comment on Installation weekend! by layal

layal — Mon, 30 May 2011 02:08:30 +0000

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….

Comment on Installation weekend! by layal

layal — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:49:29 +0000

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

Comment on Installation weekend! by Cathrin

Cathrin — Sat, 28 May 2011 19:49:33 +0000

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!

Comment on Wrong Audience, Good Advice by Alex Bal

Alex Bal — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:54:26 +0000

Thank you, this post really shows how assumptions about the public, space and how people engage with media when shown in a context other then the traditional ones.

I agree with Vinita, instructions would be helpful, or think of how games are designed. Usually, we are given instructions or rules or a purpose. As soon as you leave the Art gallery setting (and I would argue even within them), the public will not know how to engage installations…. The maker has to make it clear…

The beauty of new media design principles is that as you just did, the testing is revealing a major assumption…. Wrong public…. But I have to ask who is your public? is it youth ? Who goes to art shows and who watches documentaries?

Can’t wait to see what your solution is going to be.

Comment on Wrong Audience, Good Advice by cayoup

cayoup — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:46:34 +0000

That’s a very good question, Vinita.

Given that the installation simulation was performed in the wrong context, I probably would have gained more feedback about the content if I simply directed them to look/listen to it. Instead, I tried to achieve two things at once: comments about the media and about the method of installation and neither ambitions produced fully informed feedback. Nothing lost though, and a good learning experience.

Perhaps I should try it again in an alternate fashion with a new crowd.

Comment on Wrong Audience, Good Advice by Vinita

Vinita — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:20:50 +0000

Thank you for sharing this experiment. I find it so interesting. It highlights some of the things I’ve been thinking about in terms of student interaction and engagement: How can we use multimedia in the classroom – which can feel like an individual experience – to facilitate group process and interaction? I wonder if your student reactions might have been different had you directed/guided their interaction with the installation?

Comment on A Bridge in the Room by Alan Stange

Alan Stange — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:52:35 +0000

I liked the conversation focus on integrating math into all subjects the way language is inherently integrated into all subjects. In Saskatchewan there was an effort to systematize this concept with a Common Essential Learnings. They were expected to be integrated into all subjects. They are Communication, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Technological Literacy, Personal and Social Values and Skills, and Independent Learning. They are generally integrated into our curriculum in Saskatchewan.

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/native10/S_L_Essentials.html

Comment on Needs in school and not home-school! by Pernille Ripp

Pernille Ripp — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:15:30 +0000

What an interesting conversation/interview. What really is remarkable is how close these answers were to those of my 4th grade students. It really shows that the needs students have are basic and universal and not that far out of our reach. I wonder when some of these massive reformers will ever listen to our students or just think they know best.

Comment on How is this a Documentary Media Project? by cayoup

cayoup — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:10:12 +0000

Thanks Alex. Great points which I’ll undoubtedly review again!
Is me-dia “with us or against us?”
I try to keep an optimistic view of the Web, namely that the best, most reliable content will rise to the top. To some degree, I’d argue that the masses often act as a “natural” Web filter–deciphering fact from fiction, good content from bad. Can reliable facts ever truly emerge? I’m not so sure that they ever did pre-Web.

Comment on How is this a Documentary Media Project? by Alxbal

Alxbal — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:21:49 +0000

You may want to look at media studies 2.0… May give you some elements for your arguments. http://mediastudies2point0.blogspot.com/