2012 EduCamp: Arts Integration Presentation in Kuala Lumpur

In Kuala Lumpur I connected with a group called EduCamp which met monthly at Mind Valley.  This was a group of parents and teachers who were interested in new ideas in education.
In July 2012 I offered to give a talk on arts integration.

What they got was a hands-on activity involving triangles, architecture, and drawing.

We talked about different types of triangles, and looked at examples of architecture using triangles.  I then challenged them to draw their own building made of isosceles, equilateral, and right triangles.

Following the format of Create, Present, Respond, we had an impromptu exhibition of our sketches.

We then discussed what we learned, both from the assignment, and the process.










Recently I posted about the High Tech High MOOC and Ron Berger's butterfly video on the Educamp Facebook page.  Over a year after the event, I received this comment:

"Maggie T. Sutrov. Attended one of your art workshop at mind valley. Upon completion, I like the way all the pieces were discussed; it provide a good feedback loop for learning. I was pretty sure after looking at all the pieces, and if everyone were to produce a second piece, they would all be better on the second iteration. I only wonder if everyone were to do a third iteration the art piece could further improved. The video above has similar iterative effect. I am convinced we can learn creative writing by getting feedback iteratively from peers and teacher. Each piece of writing should be written more than once."

The whole presentation was filmed.  It would have been wonderful to repeat the process and see how our understanding deepened, but alas, it was a single evening.  And the video below is long enough as is!