3) In educational setting, discuss how technology enhances the teaching and learning environment. What do the viewpoints of Dewey....

Over time the learner has been the explorer of knowledge. In the 21st century challenges and demands are expanding and changing again. The diversity of needs in community compelled the schools to devise new ways(ex.using technology) to prepare children effectively for the challenges of the 21st century.
Today, all most people including children can use and used to technology such as computer, digital camera, camcoder and so on. In dance part, many choreographers and dance educators have investigated methods for implementing computer technology. In view of these perspective, technology presents new methods for creating, instructing, and assessing dance as well as opportunitiesto expand dance resources and redefine the learning process.


According to Dewey, neither traditional nor progressive education alone is enough, a key element must be explored, the human experience. To effectively educate and develop a plan by subject matter, an educator must understand that each experience a student has will influence his/her future for the better or for worse. A key element that should work hand-in-hand with incorporating both traditional and progressive learning is the student's past experiences,both positive and negative. A student's past experience will have an effect on their present experience which in turn will determine their future contribution and impact to society.
Moreover through John Dewey, I felt that I will have to learn and study more for my future students and me and more deeply thought about what is the role of teacher? For Dewey, education is life itself. Subject matter is also everything that a learner has experienced while he lives, of which academic knowledge is located in its center. Dewey thought that education of subject matter should have relation to human total experience.

Base on those Dewey's theory and technology enhances, the classroom better prepare students for their future as contributors to society; utilizing a student's past and present experiences including technology experiences to help tailor the appropriate lessons and tools.

For Example lesson;
through Youtube video clip teachers can using dance resources that can be yoga, hiphop dance, tap dance... etc. for students and also studetns can learn various dances by themselves.

Wow

Check this out. This is a new way for teaching and learning source.
From http://ccv.nuigroup.com/

CCV Beta Preview (tbeta) from ~ on Vimeo.

2) Discuss some ways that you can use your art to enhance students acquiring English literacy skills.

First of all, besides the obvious use of dance as a tool for conveying a story, dance can reinforce the love of words. The words in song, story and every conversations can lift students from the ordinasy to the extraordinary. Students love to be read to inspiring their imagination to believe the possibilities.

Through dance and literacy that students are able to master their own learning experiences through engaging in meaningful, sequential and problem-solving relationships witch promote interaction with peers, community and environment. The dance and literacy curriculum for reading, writing, listening, and speaking students are able to more easily understand English especially immigrant students and dance class to improve reading skills as well as enhance kinetic knowledge through text. And also students will learn gathering and sharing information, persuading others, expressing and understanding ideas, coordinating activities with others and selecting and critically analyzing messages throughout dance and literacy.

Here is an example simple lesson of dance and literacy.

-Action Words-
Ask for a few examples of fo action words( jump, leap, twist, run, swing, hop..). And explain that they will choreography a dance based on action words.

Through this lesson students will be able to indentify verbs and choreography a dance based on action words.

1) Discuss three of the websites of your colleagues and write comments in response to thier blogs...

Aurora Dreger

SeungEun Han

Sharon S Fann

I wrote comments in response to Aurora Dreger,SeungEun Han and Sharon S Fann blogs.

Mac & Windows

Mac


Windows


My website comes up differently between Mac and Windows.
I most worked with windows but when I open my website through my new Mac, my website don't come up color and width like windows. why??

Blue Team with Multiculturalism

When Blue Team who are Gregory and SeungEun meet and discuss about idea for our subject, some ideas which are multicultural and interdiciplinary subject come up. And after that through discussion finally we decide subject as multiculturalism. We collect video, document and music about teaching multiculturalism.

In that point, I want to say about multiculture. Before I came NewYork I naver have been thought deeply about multiculture. Because Korea is a racially homogeneous nation and when I grow up we didn't much open mind foreigner especally the inside. However These days many Korean students learning different languages and treveling many country. So, They need to learn multiculture. New York has many immigrant people so, educationally they also need to learn multiculture. During studying Dance Education course in NYU, I learn what is multiculturalisn, why we learn that and why we teach that to students. So, Through arts of multiculturalism, students of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds can better understand themselves and each other and a critical aspect of social stability.

Go back to blue team project process, I really enjoy making our website. The personal assignments that make homepage, music, images, animation, video and music concrete..etc. are little difficult and hard, however making blue team website is fun time. And I made it fater than others.^^; I don't know why.
Through kinds of our website as technology learning way, I hope that studetns can easily learn different culture dance, music, art and history instead real trevel.

Technology and media in the Arts

“The games can be understood as performances based on the presence of a live, performing body that acts and enacts through a computer-generated image, yet also serves as spectator/audience for the action.” “Navigating the space of the game, the real body performs through as assumed alias, and in doing so, can adopt aspects of that character, stretching into the surrogated character’s game space, while remaining paradoxically detached, alienated.” (Burrill, 2005) I never think that video games have objective of education. Video game just having fun and get rid of stress by playing. Even though I think video game is bad for children. It is that I make a mistake out of ignorance. After read articles I have a way of turning around.

“Dance games, a popular and fascinating new genre of interactive game, offer an example of an activity that is a hybridization of several preexisting cultural forms…They also feature structures that are closed, flat, or open, as well as matrices of activity that cross the boundaries between games, play, and performance.”(Burrill, 2005) Using these kinds of machine, young people or adults improve creative movement and improvisation skills. If someone develops video game with Laban motif symbol that it is good idea for children. The Laban “Motif symbols were developed from the basic Labanotation symbols. Labanotation was evolved to record specific movement patterns therefore the symbols are definitive. The direction symbols, for instance, describe specific points around the body. However more open, general movement descriptions were needed, so many of these symbols had to be modified for Motif Notation. In the initial exploration of movement, there is a need to provide freedom, to give the options of ‘any direction’ or ‘any level’. Through these, the student can explore the flexibility in use of directions and the expressiveness each provides. In Motif, to experience the range of possibilities in this category, statements such as ‘any form of extension’, ‘any degree of extension’ is needed.” (Language of dance centre) It outcomes that students will develop, know and understand the basic movement concepts and skills which serve as creating dance and performing with Laban motif symbols.