Using the comic format as a teaching tool is becoming increasingly popular in schools for a variety of reasons. Comics can engage and “hook” visual learners, teach students how to develop a storyline and plot, and help students make inferences from visual clues and text. After they’ve finished writing, designing, and editing their individual comic fables, students will present them in class and share them online. Perhaps through this assignment we will discover an “Aesop” of the 21st century!
The students in 5th grade Spanish classes have been using the new Macbook cart to create comic versions of modern-day fables. After a conversation about what constitutes a fable, students brainstormed ideas and began writing and illustrating their fables using a website called Pixton.
Using the comic format as a teaching tool is becoming increasingly popular in schools for a variety of reasons. Comics can engage and “hook” visual learners, teach students how to develop a storyline and plot, and help students make inferences from visual clues and text. After they’ve finished writing, designing, and editing their individual comic fables, students will present them in class and share them online. Perhaps through this assignment we will discover an “Aesop” of the 21st century!
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Photos of students by Nelson Taylor Tablet photo by Xataka
The 8th grade generation utilized the five iPad minis from the upper school library for a photography unit. The students were taking portraits of one another, applying skills learned about composition. We experimented with low camera angles and how they empower the subject of a portrait. And conversely how a high camera angle will diminish the power of the subject. Once in front of the lens students were encouraged to let go of their self-consciousness and model expressions and gestures that communicate the essence of middle school life. We discussed the work of the street artist JR and the idea of art changing the world. Could we challenge stereotypes of middle school aged people with our photographic portraits and change viewpoints? Last, the students cropped and toned their images using an app called Snapseed in preparation for the next step in the unit which is using the photograph as a reference image for a large scale charcoal drawing. |
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