Educating for Today and Tomorrow: Connecting Project ...
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Beyond the Classroom Conference 2012 participants, Your passion and dedication to learning is inspiring and we wish you the very best in your pursuits. The information on the following slides comes directly from what we learned when we attended Educating for Today and Tomorrow: Connecting Project Zero Research with Global Issues, Nov. 2010, Washington, D.C. and Educating for Today and Tomorrow: Art, Ethics and Learning in the 21st Century, Nov. 2011, Atlanta, GA. We have been greatly influenced by the research being done at Project Zero and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University and have included examples of how we have incorporated that learning into our practice at the Glenbow Museum School, Chevron Open Minds School Program. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].
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A Passion for Learning by Looking
Beyond the Classroom Conference Edmonton, AB June 2012
Coordinators of the Glenbow Museum School
Chevron Open Minds School Program Marnie McCormack & Michele Gallant
A PASSION
for
LOOKING
To Look at Any Thing To look at any thing,
If you know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say
I have seen spring in these
Woods, will not do - you must
Be the thing you see:
You must be the dark snakes of
Stems and ferny plumes of
leaves,
You must enter in To the small silences between The leaves, You must take your time And touch the very peace They issue from. - John Moffitt
A place where you can
LOOK for YOURSELF &
THINK for YOURSELF.
“It’s swell to dwell.”
“Too much too fast won’t
last.”
“It takes a lot of slow to
grow.”
Project Zero www.pz.harvard.edu/
Project Zero (PZ) is an educational research group at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. P Z's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.
What we Sense
What we Think
Find the BALANCE
PZ gives us the tools to Cultivate the Descriptive Impulse
“Take this fish & look at it. By and by I will ask you what you have seen.” Professor Agassiz to student Scudder, 1874
“Even the simple act of looking at, and observing an object is different because of the techniques I used at Museum School. Even the way I treat objects when I touch them and hold them is different. When we look at the objects first, no touching, we saw features we would not notice if we were occupied with touching the objects. Then we were able to touch them. There we made the connections of the visual features to the physical features. Therefore we could figure out what the object was and what its function was, easier than if we saw one aspect.”
What we Sense
What we Think
Interpretation
Explanation
Analysis
Physical
Description
Observation
BALANCE
1. Look at the image quietly for at least 30 seconds. Let your eyes wander.
2. List 10 words or phrases about any aspect of the picture.
FLODBERG, Chris
Love and War in the World of Men, 2004 Collection of Glenbow Museum
Cat. #2008.057.001
•Looking: Ten times Two
•Think/Pair/Share
•What makes you say that?
•See/Think/Wonder
•Headlines
•Connect/Extend/Challenge
More routines: www.pz.harvard.edu/vt
•Goal oriented – targets specific types of thinking
•Gets used over and over again
•Consists of only a few steps
•Is easy to learn and teach
•Is easy to support when students are engaged in the routine
• Can be used across a variety of contexts
•Can be used by the group or by the individual
BUDDHA: Chants fill the air echoing through the chambers like a snake slithering through grass. The ceiling is covered in beautiful drawings – drawings of the past. Men in orange robes stride past me chanting in a low endless rhythm. They kneel before a towering Buddha looking up to him like a baby to its mother. Buddha fills the air with peace, wisdom and silence. He reminds me of an old man, always thinking. A wind moves through the chamber picking up the wisdom and peace within, moving it out into the places in the world where peace is needed. The tiny details in the statue look as though they have been carved out with a small piece of bamboo. The silence washes over the praying monks like a sea over rocks. The light cast upon the statue is dim but it still gives off love, respect and wisdom that will surely shine in my heart forever. Descriptive writing, grade 6.
Wonder