lecture notes :: pedagogy


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9/13/10

"everyone needs an education"

everyone::: gender, class, race, nationality, age, life experience, geography, political standing


an education:  opportunity to acquire  skills/ certification for upper middle class  >> go to university / grad school
life experience
trade schools
apprenticeship



need: citizenship, participation in politics and economy, money, lifestyle, self actualization, choice, religion
social expectations



processe vs products>>> 




clear expectations with students
clear  tasks
follow them




swap readings
27: course design due


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WHY DO WE HAVE CLASSROOM TIME?

-expansiveness of group conversation
-focus attention on material they have accessed elsewhere
-auditory learners
-complementing material : exercise, example, debate
-socialization : respect differing opinions, diversity
-how to express yourself
-networking
-discipline/setting deadlines
-cultural norm
-check understanding
-put things in context




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options for using the classroom time :

lecturing
talk to your partner
group work
fieldtrips
guest lectures
discussion
projects
student lead discussion
cold call discussion
Q&A
thought question
fishbowl
low-stakeswriting
classpolls
lab : practice
workshopping



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outline of a miniconcept you will like to teach


LECTURE : IDEAS OF SOVIET MONTAGE

miniconcept: 

Outline:


0. Introduction : Historical background of the  Soviet Montage from the 1920. Soviets were interested in creating more complex interactions between images that are edited together. They developed a new grammar for  the cinematic language.


1. Eisenstein's Montage of Opposition

Oktober
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QAjpeosgU

2. Pudovkin's Associational Montage

Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZy3qO3bdy8


3. Eisenstein's Dialectical montage

Battleship Potemkin 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q





Exercise:
-Print 12 images of everything (inconography, random movies)
-Students in pairs get the set of 12 images.
-Put together 3 sets of 2 images that represent the 3 different kind of montage.
-Pairs of students share and critique their findings. Ask the other group what is the kind of montage they tried to represent with the pair of images.








come up with a short exercise you will like to use for illustrate that

brief outline of how you will discuss it

good examples


exercise to explain what happens  
ways to illustrate that




post in the forum by wednesday



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