1. Building Critical Discussions

2. CONTEXT Visual Arts in New South Wales is assessed 50% Practical and 50% Art History. PROBLEM Students only want to do practical!

3. SOLUTION 1:1 LAPTOPS + EDMODO

4. THE BORING BIT The outcomes that we teach use a structure called the FRAMES, The frames — subjective, cultural, structural and postmodern — give meaning and are the instrument for generating different understandings of the function of and relationships between the artist – artwork – world – audience. SUBJECTIVE: Is feelings and emotions, audience response CULTURAL: Ideas and Beliefs, Time and Place, context, gender, race, background, religion, Year STRUCTURAL: Signs and Symbols, description of the work, size, materials used, colour, texture, form POST MODERN: New technology, challenging conventions, pluralism, irony, humour, pastiche and appropriation

5. HOT TIP While this FRAMEWORK is a great tool to help kids analyze artworks, Many kids struggle with this!

6. MY IDEA Get kids to interpret artworks using discovery and discussion!

7. MY VISION… and HOW TO! Get kids to interpret artworks using discovery and discussion…. In SMALL GROUPS… and WITH ANOTHER SCHOOL! Through my PLN, I put the message out there, and one brave teacher from another school wanted to work with me!

8. THE TASK PART ONE: (10 MARKS) Group analysis of unseen artworks and presentation of ideas PART TWO: (20 MARKS) Individual essay response using unseen artworks to examine the question: Discuss how artists use objects to create meaning

9. SMALL GROUPS AHHHHHHHH!!!! Kids freaked out! Groups named after the artists that we analysed

10. THE ARTWORKS (For those of you playing at home…) Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs 1965. Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of "chair", Chair, 82 x 37.8 x 53 cm, photographic panel, 91.5 x 61.1 cm, text panel 24 61 x 61.3 cm Larry Preston, Donut Tower #3 2010 oil on panel 13 x 10"

11. THE ARTWORKS (For those of you playing at home…) Robyn Stacey Entomology, from Beau Monde 2006 Type C print (photograph) 84 x 170cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP MAN RAY The enigma of Isidore Ducasse 1920 reconstructed 1971 object wrapped in felt and string Edition: no.8 of an edition of 10 40.5 h x 57.5 w x 21.5 d cm

12. GROUP DISCUSSION Slow at first….

13. THE PRESENTATIONS Collaboratively created… Using Glogster and PowerPoint

15. Students relied on someone else to start the presentation

16. The teacher at the other school misunderstood the task

18. Students remembered the artists in their half yearly exam

19. They learnt the power of collaboration