As the great Pee-Wee Herman once said… I used to think that about myself. At times, I still do. But, there’s a great big world out there that’s been literally laid at my fingertips through the global reach the Internet affords. So there has to be someone…anyone… I like conceptual art. It’s a deep part […]
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AED 814 – Lesson 5 and 6 – Task 3 – Virtual Informal Learning Site – Sound Cloud
Tacit Echoes – SoundCloud as Informal Learning Site In my studio practice I have incorporated elements of sound art for some time. I present these works on a platform called SoundCloud. Much of what I communicate through this medium and on this platform is pedagogical in nature. For example… Those Meddling Punk Kids present a sound […]
AED 814 – Lesson 2 – Task 1 – Informal Learning Site – PSSC and PSWC
My Day at School Penn State World Campus (PSWC) is personal. It can be a lonely place, at least in the way online interaction can be lonely. It’s too 2D. It’s isolating in a way that both diminishes and expands the learning experience. It’s not tangible and there is no “real” life, only virtual communicative […]
ADTED 581: Lesson 10 – Race, Gender, Class and Difference – Personal Learning Journal Entry #9
“There can be no artistic breakthrough without some form of crisis in civilization…” (West in Lemert, 2018, pg. 392). Cornel West wrote these words in 1990 for Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures. I was 15 years old and going on 16. I was a rebellious budding artist with a keen sense of fairness and […]
AED 813 – Exploration 6: Contemporary Art As Public Pedagogy Curricula
Making Difference Audible Part 1: Unit Plan Unit Title: Contemporary Art and the Global Community: Making Difference Audible Through A Social Mobile Public Pedagogy Setting: Mobile Learning/Online (Tablet or Smartphone) Age: 14-Adult Enduring Idea: Access to studio space for artists is not always available or even practical, especially for those of lower socioeconomic status. However, […]
AED 813 – Exploration 2– Public Pedagogy of Upstander Art – Part 1: Justice
Stolen Heritage (for Maria Altmann) “The Woman in Gold” is a 2014 film based on the true story of Maria Altmann and E. Randol Schoenberg who teamed up to recover a portrait of Maria’s aunt Adele by Gustav Klimt that was stolen during the Nazi incorporation of Austria. Altmann is the daughter of Marie and […]
S.M.ART Practice
S.M.ART Practice: Letting Art Teach through Mobile Education S.M.ART Practice is a mobile manifestation of my philosophy of pedagogical concerns in art. At its core beats the heart of social practice as an art medium and the teaching philosophies of Joseph Beuys. Beuys did not distinguish between Beuys the artist and Beuys the teacher and […]
AED 812 – Exploration 5 – Empower
Behind the Scenes: The Duality of Empowerment Now Playing: The Power of Cliché “Marco didn’t ask to be born to a junkie. He didn’t ask to be different. Didn’t ask for none of this. And I just don’t see why he should be punished for the stuff that ain’t his fault.” Rudy Donatello (as performed […]
AED 812 – Exploration 4 – Diversity
The Art Classroom as Collective: The Teacher as Student Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) as defined by Ladson-Billings (1995) is ever evolving. At its core, CRP “incorporates and explores, through dialogic and collaborative learning projects, the culturally situated knowledges and standpoints of students and teachers/facilitators”. However, in subsequent years other educators have refreshed the thinking. “Remixing is vital to innovation […]
LDT 505 – Lesson 6: Examples of Mobile Computers in Learning Environments & Pick Your Final Project – M-Art Education
M-Art Education – Building and Integrating a Virtual Studio Practice Introduction – Taking the Art Room Around the World and Back Again When most people think of art education, they imagine a messy room full of paper and paint, brushes and markers, and students interested in learning how to draw their favorite movie star or […]