Christian, Nima, Micah & Sami- iExperience Connected ART Learning Story

Learners: Christian, Nima, Nehal, Micah & Sami     Learning Coach: D Wilkes     Date: 4.2.16

Learning Area: iExperience - Art  Key Competency: Relating to Others

Learning Observed

This term our focus is on how we can be connected citizens. In order to launch this the learners participated in a collaborative Art project where the NZC Achievment Objective was to ‘Describe the ideas their own and others’ objects and images communicate.’  The lasting understanding from this iExperience was that we can be connected in a variety of ways and display these connections as symbols, pictures and words.  It was a great initial activity for the learners to connect with each other while creating a collaborative product.  Christian, Nima, Nehal, Micah and Sami helped to brainstorm ideas (using this Brainstorm Pres) of what it ‘looks like’ to be connected.  They then used the brainstorm ideas to create their own pictures/symbols/icons and even words to fill up the letters that make the word ‘CONNECTED’ using lots of colours.  It was great to see Nima and Nehal support Sami in deciding what to draw and to hear Christian and Micah describe their ‘playing’ pictures as an example of how we can connect with others.  Sami can use the word ‘Connected’ and now understands that it means more than one thing and Nima, Micah and Christian can describe multiple examples of making connections (and they can sign ‘connected’ in NZSL- ka pai!), in and out of the school.  Nehal participated and contributed more and more as the session went on. All of the boys worked independently on their own pictures and designs but towards a team result and the ongoing discussion was very co-constructive.  Each of the boys also worked on some of the other letters- filling them with their visual ideas of what connected is. The letter ‘C’ can be seen displayed in LH1.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Draw lightly with pencil first before using markers or coloured pencil Examine what others are doing so I can contribute a new idea Ask my peers more questions about why they are drawing what they are drawing Practice using the NZSL sign for Connected