Thursday, 12 November 2015
Education
After creating our first future scene we decided that maybe it was not showing the control element as clearly as we would have liked. So we went back to ideas and thought of featuring puppetry in this scene more. We created a sequence of each student controlling the teacher with different levels of contact and puppetry, starting with the teacher being physically moved and ending with just a click to move him. I liked the piece we created but I do not prefer it to our other one. It is quite simple and repetitive so I think it may become a bit boring.
Education
This week we have been working on the scenes we have already done and talking about what we are going to do next with the piece. I am a bit worried that our piece may become boring if it has too many dialogue based scenes, so we are moving on to create another movement piece for the future education scene. We are thinking that we could have more than one outcome, so one where control has been lost and another where new punishments have been brought in and schools are really strict.
We have started creating the version where the students are in control, a scene in which the teacher is overpowered and the students do what they want. When two of them get in a fight the teacher tries to break it up, restraining the girl who screams. He lets go in shock and the pupils all stare at him in disgust. I think this does very well to highlight the lack of control teachers have and how they feel they cannot physically do anything when in actual fact it is completely within their rights.
We have started creating the version where the students are in control, a scene in which the teacher is overpowered and the students do what they want. When two of them get in a fight the teacher tries to break it up, restraining the girl who screams. He lets go in shock and the pupils all stare at him in disgust. I think this does very well to highlight the lack of control teachers have and how they feel they cannot physically do anything when in actual fact it is completely within their rights.
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Education
Ken Robinson is an inspirational speaker who gives talks about education and the problems that are within it. The first video is a talk he has given about creativity and how education is killing it, which is affecting the youth of today.
The second video is about education and the main problems that he believes are apparent. He talks about the three main principle crucial for the human mind to flourish and how current education culture works against them. He uses comedy in subtle ways which I think we could incorporate into our meetings and tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
The second video is about education and the main problems that he believes are apparent. He talks about the three main principle crucial for the human mind to flourish and how current education culture works against them. He uses comedy in subtle ways which I think we could incorporate into our meetings and tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
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