iPad lesson - transformation through art

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I hope you all took time to read over the iPad lesson assignment in your syllabus and also reviewed the rubric you will be scored on.  If you haven't done so, please do it now.  The idea behind this assignment is to create a virtual field experience for you. You will be creating and teaching a technology lesson to a group of middle school students without actually be present.  Because you will not be there, you need to be extremely thorough in your lesson planning.  I have laid out specific steps that include step by step tutorials, checks for understanding, and good reflective questions and a final rubric for scoring.
You can look at the lower right side of the blog for iPad resources. I have a Pinterest board for iPad resources too.  Ideally though, any art lesson can be altered to become an iPad lesson so it is best to think of the idea and then how to create it with an iPad.

Here are the two examples we looked at in class:
Alternate Personality Trading Cards: Creating a Super You lesson
(best example of being explicit and checking for understanding along with awesome connection to kids interests)
100 Year Portrait lesson
(great example of transformation and connection to visual culture)
and here are a few more that we didn't watch!
Micrographic Self-Portraits
(very unique lesson- very personal and good challenging technology skills)
and
Relationship Portraits
(great way to get kids to reflect on their relationships and create personal work)
and last
Hybrids 
(super fun for kids and a great combination of technology, personal connections, and creative thinking in a short assignment).

Watch these and then get online and look for art lessons that you think you could translate into a iPad lesson plan. Bring ideas to class and make connections to the exhibit we are going to see on Tuesday. The idea behind the lesson is "transforming our community." Think about ways we can help the middle school students think about creating art as a way to transform their school or community for the better.  I described 4 themes in class and they are in the syllabus:
Transforming media
Transforming environment
Transforming perception
Transforming the narrative
Consider these themes as you begin!