Child Workshop Experience

Reflect on your time with the child you worked with. What succeeded and why - refer to Dewey and other readings? What did not succeed and why not - again, try to find a reason based on the readings you have done for this class. If you could work with this child again, what would you like to do next time to develop what you today's experience?

Child Workshop Plan

Character- portrait of Character (drawing)à exploring line, shade, and different mark making (art)
Character-deconstruct and reconfigure of form(computer paint program)à ways to change character (math)
Supporting Characters- Metaphor/Analogy characters(clay sculpture)à (language arts)
Background/ Environment-(watercolour and ink map)à Where does the character live/ located in relation to othersà (social studies)
Background/ Environment-(landscape acrylic painting).à research the type of environment: what type of organisms live there. (science-biology)

For my workshop, I performed activity 1 and 2 with Malike. I thought that the first activity was successful in that he was engaged with the drawing. In terms of Dewey's open experience, Malike really liked spongebob and wanted to draw him. This provided Malike with an open experience because it was his area of interest and he was able to do something he wanted. Through this lesson, he cacn further develop his drawing skills. The success of this activity also shows through the documentation. The method I used for documenting is Photography. I was able to capture his body language as well as his drawing. In the beggining his first drawing was small and did not use most of the page. After encouraging him, his drawing used the whole page and there was strong attention to detail which shows he was engaged with the work.

For my second activity, I do not think this went as successful as I thought it would go. This activity was broken down to three parts. Creating Spongebob on paint was really well done. The deconstruction and reconsrtuction, however, wasn't. Through the documentation using his artifacts, there were definite signs of regress with his drawing. Not only that, but he stuck to the pencil tool and avoided the other tools for paint. I'm not too sure why he did this but some speculations might have been because he did not want to do the deconstruction or reconstruction, the concept was too difficult to grasp, or that the tools were too challenging for him. Malike is a special needs learner who is mentally delayed by a couple years. Next time, I'm thinking of doing an activity with each tool so that he becomes used to it. I know thhat he had problems with the pen tool because drawing with a mouse is not easy. Media compentency helps the learner have a good experience because they don't have to deal with the technical issues when creating their work.