Larry Stowe
IDT574
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Let’s take a look at how video can be used effectively in art.

When tasked with teaching art history many times I’m told to just get the books out and read out loud. This is seen as bad use of video.
Ok guys get your books out and lets read about Hokusai’s Great wave… (teacher reads) In Asian painting , color is arbitrary. Chinese painters painter their scrolls with monochromatic colors, often using color only for accents and emphasis. In wood cuts, colors were kept flat.

Why wasn’t that example effective? Let see if we can point out what was missing.

“Effective use of video as an educational tool is enhanced when instructors consider three elements: how to manage cognitive load of the video; how to maximize student engagement with the video; and how to promote active learning from the video.”Brame C. J. (2016).

The better clip is played (https://youtu.be/IBcB_dYtGUg?t=43)

In a remote setting “you can’t see it you can’t move around it which you can with video” (Don Larson, 2019)
How would we solve this in a remote learning environment? Video is an important start but we have new technology that enables more.

Art has been a very involved discipline that becomes a cross section of things learned over duration of a person’s life. These memories touch many Multimodalities which are associated with the use of visuals, sounds, texts, gestures, and technology (Sakulprasertsri, 2020).

To fully maximize engagement we can use the multimodality of vr if available.  The class could do a class mural of this work but nothing beats VR’s for remote work in 3d.

Here students get to play with the content that can match the modality of content and boost the germane load. I agree with Dr. Sharon Wyly “we are a visual species” (Don Larson, 2019).

(The video plays as someone works on a vr recreation of the great wave.) We partnered with our friends at VR Scout to bring you a season full of virtual reality art made in Tilt Brush. This time, we asked artist James R. Eads to recreate famous paintings in virtual reality, so we can all experience the magic of these paintings up close! He recreated Hokusai's "The Great Wave" in VR. - Soulpancake -

“The scribbles of children evolve naturally and inevitably into labyrinthine forms, meanders, and spirals and eventually into more refined geometric shapes and variations of these shapes, such as circles, concentric circles, and quadrisected circles. These drawings are similar in artistic structure to those of prehistoric and tribal people and contemporary artists alike. They reveal that the principles of visual thinking are common to our species, developing jointly from inherent motor impulses and the eye's search for and recognition of universally satisfying shapes.”(Dissanayake,1998).

So in art effective use of video includes the 3 elements along with interactive video technology tools like VR. These tools can complete any learning outcome with lasting success by given the student control over what they produce next.

Media

Experience "The Great Wave" in Virtual Reality! | Art Attack Master Works

The Great Wave by Hokusai: Great Art Explained

Reference

Brame C. J. (2016). Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for Maximizing Student Learning from Video Content. CBE life sciences education, 15(4), es6. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-03-0125

Dissanayake, E. (1998). The beginnings of artful form: the penchant for pattern. Surface Design Journal, 22, 4–6.

Don Larson. (2019, July 31). Dr Wyly on Instructional Video [Video]. YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8GlLWsMrE

Sakulprasertsri, K. (2020). Teachers’ Integration of Multimodality into 21st Century EFL Classrooms in Thailand: Practice and Perception. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 13(2), 225–242.

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