Looking for Test Subjects

I am currently in a course that follows the Stanford Design Thinking Model; CEP 817 Learning Technology through Design. I decided on the problem of proactive (PoP): Elementary art teachers are struggling to use technology in meaningful ways. After getting feedback from other elementary art teachers, I decided on a solution that involved offering professional …

3 Things I believe about assessments

Back in May I wrote a post about three things I think about assessments (which you can read here). Today I am revisiting that post and diving deeper into what I believe about assessments, what I have learned about assessments and how it can be applied in the art studio. When looking at my original …

Portfolios as Assessment

Using a portfolio to assess an artist, is the most popular form of assessment in art. From a teacher stand point, the teacher periodically looks at the student’s portfolio, which contains all their artwork, and assesses their growth as an artist. Each teacher may be looking at a wide variety of skills/concepts/themes that they are …

Formative Assessment Design 1.0

In my district, the art teachers have 3 assessments tools that we use; a color theory test, that is a pre-and post assessment used to collect data on student growth, a common assessment for ceramics and an overall portfolio assessment used to give report card grades. While we have 5 units of study that we …

Annotated Assessment Exemplar

As I start my journey into learning about assessments and technology, the first this I am doing is learning about assessment by analyzing an assessment that I currently use. If you follow my blog, you already know that I teach elementary art. Last year our districts elementary art teachers, met and created two common assessments …

Personalized Learning – The Best, Bad Solution

If you follow this blog, then you know, that I have been interested in the wicked problem of Personalized Learning. You can read my post about Personalized Learning here, where you can also view my infographic on Personalized Learning. Throughout the process of trying to find a solution to Personalized Learning, I have been working …

Personalized Learning – A Wicked Problem

According to Koehler & Mishra (2008) “Solutions to wicked problems are often difficult to realize (or maybe even recognize) because of complex interdependencies among a large number of contextually bound variables. Wicked problems, they argue, cannot be solved in a traditional linear fashion because the problem definition itself evolves as new solutions are considered and/or …

Ill-Structured Problems in the Art Studio

For my first assignment in CEP 812, we learned about the various structures of problems in education; well-structured, ill-structured and wicked problems. For this weeks learning, we focused on ill-structured, or complex problems. An ill-structured problem includes many variables and has more than one way to get to an answer. Depending on the age of …

Assessing Creativity

One would think that assessing creativity would be a natural component of an elementary art room. When it comes to assessing student artwork, for grading purposes, our district assesses the student's growth through a portfolio. We assess the proper use of materials, the use of the elements and principles of design and behavior. When discussing …

NLP – Learning to Crochet

My journey into the land of crochet has been a slow one. So far, I have learned how to single crochet, which is the first stitch to learn. From my resources, the next few stitches to learn seem like they will be easy now that I have mastered the single crochet. For my resources, I …