Sunday, October 20, 2013

Technology & Pedagogy


The lesson plan I chose consists on the students creating a monochromatic portrait painting based on a printed digital photograph that is altered with Photoshop. (Other software should be available)
Once the students have their own personal portrait altered and printed they are ready to copy the image, (projector to trace should be optional!) and start painting with light values or tints by adding white to the color they choose and shades or dark values by adding black.

I chose this lesson plan because technology and traditional art merge in order to understand principles of art. It is practical and also beneficial to teenagers because to create self-portraits and choosing a color helps construct the sense of self.

The gaps that I found were essentially the lack of some technologies (software and projectors) the technology used is practical but since technology is ever changing some modifications could be suitable.

I believe that the technologies used to achieve the goal of painting a monochromatic portrait are practical, not necessarily essential although they are indeed very useful when we consider that we have time frames and when we have a clear objective of what the goal for the lesson plan is.

An additional technology that could be useful is a projector or a smart board to show a slide show of monochromatic works of art to inspire the students, but it is not necessary if the teacher provides hard copies.

In my opinion to integrate technology in this lesson plan not only facilitates the understanding that the students attain about color composition and depth but it ensures that all the students in a classroom artistically skilled or not accomplish a successful art piece. 

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