The micro-teaching session was a really fun and exciting day, after going first I had some great observations and reflections on my own skills and took this day as a learning day.
Alix – Laptop image of a Jordan shoe collab with offwhite.
We first had to describe what we saw in the sense of what was displayed and describe what we thought the materials were, what the price point was and if we knew the relevance of the collaboration.
Conversations came around in all parts, from the colour symbolism of the red tag to the word Vulcanized and its history of rubber, which led to a conversation around sustainable rubber options. Boundaries of wearability, affordability and popularity were discussed which became a learning opportunity for peer-to-peer engagement.
This was extremely fun and interesting, I assumed that the object itself although not present still provided the opportunity to interact and debate about the item and its history/relevance to humanity.
Lucy – Wooden objects
A tactile approach to learning and bringing multiple objects to the session, it started off similar to Alix’s that we discussed the possible materials these were made from, birch, oak or beech etc. The session was fully interactive and playful, it really showed lucy’s expertise in the subject, to later find that these objects were personal to Lucy and crafted by them, Lucy then went on to explain about the wood devastation and how certain trees host diseases that we need to consider in sustainable forest replacements, but with a darker outcome that certain species will die off eventually. Lucy describes her teaching practice as a trifecta of visual learning, tactile learning and epistemological teaching.
Diego – Bi-naural recording microphone.
Diego had the most fascinating object, these ‘ear microphones supported real-life audio and detection that are used to capture spatial audio. They had a radar of depth, that allowed logistical detection that allowed the microphones to detect the same sounds as the human brain. This unique design plays on 3 things, the height of the ears on a human head, the aesthetics of ear shapes and also how the shape of the head affects the sound we humans hear.
Diego went on to discuss how this has been used to change audio capture in modern movies and tv, while also saying that it had the potential to be considered inaccessible hearing issues in humans that could lead to a research proposal.
Bo – The hidden elephant.
Bo’s micro-teaching session was fun and innocent which brought a sense of play to the session, the object was first hidden in a glove and we each secretly felt and had to describe what we thought the piece was through descriptors. Using the descriptors we then had to draw from our imagination what the object was in our hand, this was a fun dynamic which gave a sense of creative art school moments, like being blindfolded or drawing with a extend pole and pen on the end.
Bo related the object in discussion while drawing, to a personal story that talked about a nomadic journey of adventure and art and trinkets that humans collect to preserve memories and emotions of love, travel and meeting people.
Sarah – Drawing session around the right side of the brain.
Sarah’s session was about drawing and visualising the observation through different mediums, swapping just not drawing materials but also paper qualities and how that could change how we drew the object, the relationship that personal mark making is individualistic and that it makes us reflect and analysis what we see rather than what we think we see. This micro-teaching session was based around a research Sarah has been doing, from the book by Betty Edwards on the same subject, and how drawing can benefit accessiblity teaching in overcoming obstacles on personal work, reflection and evaluation.