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Masters Project and BRAINS>>>>>>

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Typical Brain that most people are used to:

There are many cool things about having a brain like this...

Flow of thoughts direct, 

room for a complicated ideas to be worked out one-by-one, matches society, 

manages information eloquently,

 organized, and so on...

 ABRSTRACT Brain TYPE:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

ALSO has many awesome things:

LOTS of ideas, ability to think different ways for one problem, information bends upon entry, visually advanced, and so on...












BOTH also have their own challenges.

I have lots of creative ideas but it is SOOOO hard to focus.
I often leave projects unfinished

.................to move-> on to the next thing that has 

 captured my attention]]]]]]

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It can (((hurt))) sometimes to feel the inability to <<<<focus>>>>.

I know this is also how my students feel :) a lot of times.

My current interest is finding solutions to improve the social and emotional health of my students, whom I care deeply for! 

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My articles for this class focused on the Arts as:

• Therapy for working through difficult circumstances
• Building Community
• Improving Social and Emotional Health
• A Creative Foundation for Stronger Intelligence
• A potential tool of empowerment for at-risk students
•  A solution for addressing critical issues we've been discussing......

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Master's Topic Argument and Interests

My overall argument is that................................................................................................................ 

Creativity and/or Art Expression combined with elements of contemporary youth culture as a solution                                                             educational >-----<disconnects 

                                                          and as tool for student growth.

PARTICIPATORY CULTURE & EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH OF STUDENTS
COLLABORATION

INTEREST BASED 

BRAIN RESEARCH AS APPLIED TO MY STUDENTS (Attachment Theories)

Research has taken place in many areas of Art Therapy under Psychology connected to the social and emotional growth of participants.

McNely, Keen, Jenkins, & Barbules and Cluster 

all encompass progressive thoughts and research based on participatory culture and educational technology.

I have only just begun to investigate topics of Brain Development, but it is equally facinating and so connected to my population of students.

The following is an awesome book I read that talks about brain science:

Here's a review, http://lemoncraft.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/a-general-theory-of-love-a-review/

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((((((((((((IDEAS))))))))))))

I need your help!!!

• Acting Club
• Behavorial Level System
• Blogging 

Final Paper Abstract

My final paper is addressing the...

 <<educational disconnect between student life, their creativity, and learning >> 

I am offering a couple of ideas to use in the classroom.  

The paper included the series "Warriors" as symbolic to the core components of participatory culture:

• collaboration as the foundation
• exploration
• creativity
• interactive literacy
• open communication without judgement
• opportunities to participate
• multi-modal 

Literature that has interactive media available for students:

Warriors--> http://www.warriorcats.com/

This series is quest driven, 

((((something kids love)))) 

but affords opportunities to exlpore many critical issues 

(i.e. caring for the environment, social structures, etc.)

 

Diary of a Wimpy kid
-> www.wimpykid.com

 
Jeff Kinney is an author that speaks to the readers on a regular basis, embracing the participants, inviting them to become involved.

As an introduction, my students watched this video and then drew their own versions on the wireless tablet where they were projecting their fun activity on the board for the class to see. 

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The paper, with limit to space, decided to focus mostly on the blogging piece of these interactive websites.  

Blogging is one way for students to be reflective, practice literacy skills, participate with a public community, and be engaged.


ONE TEACHER'S EXAMPLE:

^^^SOOOOOOOOOOO   COOOOOOOOOOOOL 

IT is important to teach about blogs to students that are younger.

heart warming story-
 I work with students with emotional and behaviorial challenges.  This particular student had a rough start to life, experiencing many traumas.  Getting him to participate has not even been a priority, replaced by a need to keep him feeling safe first.  

I introduced blogging.  Honestly, I didn't even realize this student was listening.  A couple days later, he raised his hand super excited,   "Ms. Cole, do you know, Dog with a blog?" As I was unfamiliar, we began investigating through our technology as a class together.  I thought it was a blog itself.  After talking with him and finally figuring it out, we found a video.  He had watched the Disney show about a Dog that talks and blogs and we watched the trailer as a class (really funny BTW).  This kid was tantalized by the connection and so was I!!     

McNely is McAwesome

               As a photographer                                       

I felt super hip to McNely's
          application,
exploration,
        & research...

...among the (((((((((((((((visual and physical))))))))))))) world.


His studies provoke 
the elitism that has been brutally ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~threaded into the professional research domain.  

He counters that old dusty:::::(-)



 

container 

of 

knowledge 

by suggesting that his students are coauthors of his research journals. They become active agents for providing evidence and data in the moment.  The carriage in this instance is blogging (McNely,Teston, Cox, Olorunda, & Dunker, 2012). 

He also argues that this 
         method of data 
is more valid by nature of immediacy  and its relationship
                         to the context.  

Since the reflections 
      are taking place within 
          the moment of the experience 
                               in place of  
{{{pre))) and (((post}}}

qualitative evidence. 

http://www.brianjmcnely.com/ <----------------------------

The quality of the data becomes significantly relevant to the study.

What I found soooo)))))) sweet was the many distractions' I acted on launching from McNely's website and papers!!  Check out his visual research methods page.  

McNely states among his website:

"Indeed, empirical visual research methods support a strategy of inquiry for better surfacing, tracing, and understanding the often ephemeral rhetorical genres that mediate contemporary work, learning, and play. Capturing these genres of practice in photographs and video helps me better understand complex activities; more importantly, visual research methods help me better represent the lived experience of my participants."

Here's my own Rhetoric investigation:

Notes of notes and more notes.  

The physical, the virtual, the formal, the scratch,  image of a screen showing McNely's image of other's notes

my daughters circles(((( OOOOOOOO = ((((copying my note patterns 

while I was in the bathroom :) 

This particular photograph also reminds me of the REMIX culture we live among.

There are no rules anymore.

All is fair in the art of borrowing and
the most popular sport is experimenting with other people's art forms.  Some artists would PUKE at this notion.  My own interpretation
is that nothing is original until we put our
own hands into it.  Everything starts from the
world...

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The notion of using the visual to research at a higher level makes me wonder, what would some of my own professors think if I arrived to my committee with images to support my research.  Would they still want the written evidence?  Many of my professors are "old fashioned" in their research methods.  IT makes me think about that container of knowledge again....

 A FRESH APPROACH TO THE COLLEGE CLASS, HE INITIATES A CLASS FOR HIS COLLEGE STUDENTS IN THIS WEBSITE:

http://repurposed.posterous.com/ 

:::::::A LOOK AT RHETORICS:::::::: 

I have investigated public spaces in relationship to art.  McNely is looking at it much the same way but using the word Rhetoric and emphasizing the many modes of language we use.  This photograph was taken prior to looking at his work. 

IT was FOUND at the playground my kids were at.

   After taking it I ended up finding an artist online that I LOVE.  
To me this shows the connections that are arising from the new medias.  The ability to bring things at a higher dimension...

Here is the artist that I found:  YUKO SHImizu

 http://yukoart.com/category/blog/

She is 
hip
political
commercial
children's artist
Playboy
Magazine illustrator
provocative
traditional
intelligent
and so on...

      

My perspective is Creativity

Technology embraces vitality via

creativity, 

culture, 

& collaboration.

I have always been one to embrace changes and the new, it excites my bones.  While people say "techie" at me, I know that is far from truth.  

What 
      I 
        am...
 is a person wiling to take risks, willing to get messy, and a person that is giddy during the exploration process.  

Through my recent college educational technology class I have continued to feed my joy factor of discovery.

The wonderful realization is that I love being around my comrades and listening to their 

)))))))))ideas)))))

I relish the physical act of communication.  

I emphasize this because so many people expect the extreme counter impact of new innovations.  In the context of technological perspectives, I mean people out there (((((fear)))) that the virtual world will replace the physical, which I think the opposite has happened.  

Good Ole Albert!!!  He also feared technology, by the way!

The potential experiences within the technological world have the ability to promote social connections and breed collaboration.  I hope I am provoking a different thought.

Check out this man's perspective:
http://willterry.blogspot.com/2011/12/do-public-schools-kill-creativity.html

U over there, will youth fizzle into a pile of bugged out maniacs?