Day One
Lesson
Note: Through out this unit, students will maintain a "reflective journal". Allow 5 minutes at the end of each class for students to write a short reflection on what they learned that day. As they enter class, have them take out their journals and review what they wrote the previous day.
Introduce unit by telling students that this unit is about the power of images to effect not only our emotions, but our perceptions of reality. When does something go from being “interpretive” to “deceitful” ? Is it the artist’s duty to make it clear? If a picture tells a story, and that story can be factual or fiction or historical fiction, is it the artist’s duty to make sure the audience understands the genre?
Activity 1
This part of the lesson will use clicker (SRS) or online polling (if an online class).
Construct a poll using paintings of people, historical events, or places. With each image ask students to register how they “feel” regarding the accuracy of the painting—how closely they believe it depicts reality.
Use likert scale:
Not at all accurate
Somewhat accurate
Mostly accurate
Completely Accurate
Suggested paintings:
-Leutze “George Washington Crossing the Delaware”
-David’s “Napoleon in his Study”
-Last supper (DaVinci)
-self-portrait of Monet, etc
-Alma-Tadema’s “ The Women of Amphissa”
Ask why they thought the way they did. Ask how important it is in these paintings that the material in the painting be factually accurate? What does factually accurate mean to them in the context of art.
Activity 2
Next show several photographs from history, and from pop culture. Ask how accurate each of these photos are. Use the same rating scale as before. Ask students, in a poll, whether photos should be more accurate than a painting.
Choices in this poll: No, Sometimes, Most of the time, All of the time.
Activity 3
Break students into groups of 3 or 4. Students will explore this website:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
They will be asked to identify three of the images discussed, whose fakery most dramatically impacted society/culture. They will be asked to present their choices and the reasons they chose them.
Homework Assignment:
Show students videoANT and how it is used. If students are old enough to have their own email account, then they can use that email account to test videoANT before submitting an assignment. If not, have them put in your email account.
1. Go to http://ant.umn.edu/
2. Select “Click here to launch VideoANT”
Choose one of the following videos to annotate in videoANT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiQptl_Y9E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0Cd-aL9Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM
You will select a minimum of three important points in the video. Please the markers at the beginning of each important point. In the annotation area, state why you put a maker at the point: what is significant about what is being said in the video. Use a minimum of 3 sentences for each annotation.
Ideally: the annotated videos should be emailed to you for grading.
Note: Through out this unit, students will maintain a "reflective journal". Allow 5 minutes at the end of each class for students to write a short reflection on what they learned that day. As they enter class, have them take out their journals and review what they wrote the previous day.
Introduce unit by telling students that this unit is about the power of images to effect not only our emotions, but our perceptions of reality. When does something go from being “interpretive” to “deceitful” ? Is it the artist’s duty to make it clear? If a picture tells a story, and that story can be factual or fiction or historical fiction, is it the artist’s duty to make sure the audience understands the genre?
Activity 1
This part of the lesson will use clicker (SRS) or online polling (if an online class).
Construct a poll using paintings of people, historical events, or places. With each image ask students to register how they “feel” regarding the accuracy of the painting—how closely they believe it depicts reality.
Use likert scale:
Not at all accurate
Somewhat accurate
Mostly accurate
Completely Accurate
Suggested paintings:
-Leutze “George Washington Crossing the Delaware”
-David’s “Napoleon in his Study”
-Last supper (DaVinci)
-self-portrait of Monet, etc
-Alma-Tadema’s “ The Women of Amphissa”
Ask why they thought the way they did. Ask how important it is in these paintings that the material in the painting be factually accurate? What does factually accurate mean to them in the context of art.
Activity 2
Next show several photographs from history, and from pop culture. Ask how accurate each of these photos are. Use the same rating scale as before. Ask students, in a poll, whether photos should be more accurate than a painting.
Choices in this poll: No, Sometimes, Most of the time, All of the time.
Activity 3
Break students into groups of 3 or 4. Students will explore this website:
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
They will be asked to identify three of the images discussed, whose fakery most dramatically impacted society/culture. They will be asked to present their choices and the reasons they chose them.
Homework Assignment:
Show students videoANT and how it is used. If students are old enough to have their own email account, then they can use that email account to test videoANT before submitting an assignment. If not, have them put in your email account.
1. Go to http://ant.umn.edu/
2. Select “Click here to launch VideoANT”
Choose one of the following videos to annotate in videoANT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiQptl_Y9E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0Cd-aL9Q8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM
You will select a minimum of three important points in the video. Please the markers at the beginning of each important point. In the annotation area, state why you put a maker at the point: what is significant about what is being said in the video. Use a minimum of 3 sentences for each annotation.
Ideally: the annotated videos should be emailed to you for grading.
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