Week 3 (16/10/13)

Week 3 was pretty interesting for me and it was practical too which was really exciting. It is always a mystery coming in to this lesson because I do not know what to expect.

First Part of the Lesson:
So this week we continued with the apocalypse; and was put in groups of five to plan and create an education system but also keep in mind how to feed, house, keep warm and keep these people healthy. There was three time periods of when we have to create a new education system for, 1. Just emerged from bunkers 2. Five years after the war & 3. Ten years after the war. I was in the group that had to recreate an education system Five years after the war; we had twenty minutes to discuss within our groups of how we want it to be and then pitch it to the judges which made me get super anxious. Within our group there was five roles, they were 1. A survivor who was extremely wealthy 2. An entrepreneur 3. A Trade unionist 4. A Teacher's assistant & 5. An individual who reads a lot of Freire. I had taken the role of the Teacher's assistant and my group members took the rest of the roles.

My brainstorm

Why?
I think we done the apocalypse scenario to realise that everyone in the class had different view points of how they would create an education system. Although people had diverse opinions I believe that there was a lot of similar opinions amongst my group; For example in my group we thought that there should be a classless education for all because when it does come down to the important factors of failing in education it does tend to show that the 'working class' fail. However if we did have a classless society we thought that, it would bring equality, fairness and a good education system for the future generations. For me it was really intriguing to hear all the different opinions because I didn't even think of them ideas myself; so it was really great to just discuss and hear new ways of improvement people want for the education system. Another thing that I loved about this discussion was that me and my group got personal and deep with our opinions and even talked about experiences that we faced either in a positive or a negative light in school or college.

What did I learn?
This lesson really helped me understand the education system a bit more because it allowed me to research on it in my own time and it showed me how I can as a future teacher help my students to go further in life and be more positive towards them because if you are constantly negative, from my own experience I know that you end up fulfilling the prophecy. I actually now know what sort of teacher I want to become and evolve to and also work with what we have at the time, referring back to the post bunker.

Second part of lesson:
This lesson got more and more exciting to me because at this point we had moved on from the apocalypse and on to making a collage. So a collage is like making a new whole by adding bits and pieces together to create new meanings and memories. There are a lot of ways to make a collage for example cubomania which is cutting pictures into squares which then resemble together some how also photomontage is also another way of making a collage.

I decided to research on the DaDa movement and also Hannah Hoch further to get some inspiration on how I want my collage to be like.

DaDa means "Hobby Horse" in French.

DaDa was an artistic movement in Europe during the World War 1. They were so angry about the War that they formed this movement in a way to escape and be against everything that made the War occur; they even went to the extent to even call themselves non-artist because they thought nothing in the world had any meaning at that point in time. DaDa had the intention to provoke a personal reaction from the audience (shock or offend). Info I got about the DaDa movement


 
 
Here is a picture that the DaDa movement received their provoking reactions at, as its the famous Mona Lisa. Marcel Duchamp had drawn a moustache.
Hannah Hoch was apart of the DaDa movement and was one of the first creators of photomontage. She considered herself as apart of the women's group in 1920. The image on the right is one that Hoch had created by combining women and men features together in a sense of equality. Info I got about Hannah Hoch

Towards the end of this lesson I got together with my peer mentor and shared why I put my collage together the way I did. The reason is because  I really fell in love with the picture that Hannah Hoch put together because it inspired me to make one just like it so I can show that social class in the education system between students and teachers are equal and everyone gets treated the same because to me the way you get treated in school, college or university almost determines the grade you achieve. I used newspaper and also magazines to create my collage to brighten it up and make it look interesting. I hoped that my audience saw my collage and thought it was stimulating n a way because at the end of the day I believe that the education system is lacking equality.