Friday 2 October 2015

Innovation and Technology in Art and Maori

One of our goals for the new St Margaret's College Centre for Innovation is to integrate technology and innovation across the curriculum.  The uptake from staff has been really exciting and the space is being utilised across a range of subject areas, taking a project based learning approach.  

During Term Three I had the pleasure of working with both the Art and Maori teachers in combining a unit of work with the Year 6 students.  The brief was to use their knowledge from Maori and Art to produce a pendant or magnet.  Through Maori the girls learnt about the patterns depicted in the wharenui.  They discussed the meaning behind the traditional colours of red, white, black and green and chose their object accordingly.  As students drew their images, they were mindful that these pictures held a story and the design of their fridge magnet of pendant had to represent something of personal meaning to each individual.  

Through their Art classes, they looked at shapes. They were challenged to identify open and closed, positive and negative spaces on their design and use the same image replicated differently with these concepts.  Finally the design was printed using our 3D printers.  We used an app on the iPad called PrintShop which captured a photo of the girls design. From here we were able to resize and manipulate it before printing it.  I am grateful to our Art and Maori teachers, Maria and Sue for their collaboration and combined effort to make this unit of work such a success.

Linda Chong
Head of the St Margaret's College Centre for Innovation
Cross posted from the St Margaret's College Centre for Innovation Blog


8 comments:

  1. Thanks Linda for sharing this fabulous way you are starting to work in a cross-curricular way. I thoroughly enjoyed the recent session you ran for our ChchEd Maker Event recently and I know that teachers who went to your workshop were equally inspired.

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    1. Thanks Pauline. The Chch Ed event was a great hit and thoroughly enjoyable.

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  2. Thanks Linda for sharing this fabulous way you are starting to work in a cross-curricular way. I thoroughly enjoyed the recent session you ran for our ChchEd Maker Event recently and I know that teachers who went to your workshop were equally inspired.

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  3. Brilliant post Linda! Love the way you are collaborating with teachers across a range of curriculum areas to infuse innovation and tech. Thanks so much for sharing.:-)

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    1. Thank you Aimie. I'm looking forward to more creative enterprises with you.

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  4. You are doing such great things in 3D design, Linda. Really exciting to read about it.

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  5. Wonderful example of bringing teachers of different strengths together to collaborate and create. Great to read re the positive uptake of staff to the concepts.

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  6. You always rock it, Linda. Love how it is never theory with you and you get on and do it.

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