CLASS STRUCTURE:
Session Time 20 minutes
Present Microteaching session, aims and objectives: 5 minutes
Show Objects and materials to class and how they can be used: 5 minutes
Students to start work in making cube: 10minutes
Summary and assessment: and-open discussion to class: 10 minutes
‘CUBE TRANSCONFIGURATION TOOL‘
Teaching space, resources and materials are important to deliver this type of class.
It is important for me to note how vital teaching facilities, material, resources equipment etc is essential in delivering or creating’ Object based learning. Object based learning does not have to be centred on specific items or equipment to support teaching an idea or delivering a technical skill i.e., costume artifacts, bowl, pen-online tutorial.
My thoughts…
Object based learning can be delivered through doing and making in which the object is created and through its creation, the learning of skills, materials, construction, imagination, sharing ideas, can stimulate new ways of thinking and looking, provoke discussion and open further questioning -a new dialogue in teaching.
I hope to demonstrate this through my Micro Teaching and Object based learning classes/demonstration-to provoke discussion, create new ideas in thinking-to create ‘connections’. Here are examples of things that change its shape, reconfiguration, and samples of hinges. The aim of these examples is to show connections, joints that bend and twist. These are simple mechanics/machine. From simple to complex; this will stimulate ‘making approaches’ and manipulation of material
Lesson objective -is to create a cube made from 8 x wooden blocks that can change its shape by mechanical methods shown through the brief explanation of what a hinge is and the Rubics Cube and how to use their mechanics to create a cube.
Friday the 2nd of February 2024 Object based Learning / equipment and facilities.
My Reflection on Microteaching.
What was exciting for me about object-based learning; it helped me to I understand that there is a deeper line of communication that are created when look deeper into the object’s history or its influence on the person holding or making the item. The viewer /observer and its environmental, ethical impact -if any. An interesting observational note: it engages all the senses, touch, smell, taste, hearing and looking/seeing.
‘The variations in how information can be transmitted, and abstract ideas and thinking can be made simpler or even more complicated. Also, transferable skills can be developed through the manipulation of materials, the way we talk about materials and its understanding of it. How certain objects made or found can create meaning and engage people from different cultures and nationalities.’
I’m looking forward to engaging with this project with a new way of thinking in how objects are placed in a space, how it provokes thinking and understanding. To observe how we learn, how we engage with each other (observation) communicate and the transferable skills of learnt at the session.
These photos below are examples of completed cube and possible configurations, ‘ transformation’.
QUESTIONS:
Conclusion
Questions
Feedback from class
Did this object observation class make you think about how you teach?
Did you discover/develop creative ways in attaching the cubes together?
Did you understand the aims of the class learning outcomes?