500-Word Narrative

Technofied Lesson Plan:

500-Word Narrative

            For my Technofied Lesson Plan, I felt that combining art history with different types of art projects would be the best way to incorporate different types of technologies throughout the lesson.

Being that many art lessons and lectures usually exceed the time of only one class period, this lesson plan is one that could take up to two weeks, potentially three depending on how long each activity takes the students and how much time is spend on the assignments outside the classroom.

With that being said, there are certain technologies that the students will already be using prior to this lesson; at the beginning of the year, students will have created their own blogs for the class using the Google app called Blogger. The use of this app will allow the students to create a blog strictly dedicated for this lesson. Students will also have access to the teacher’s blog that is dedicated to the lesson as well. This blog will have an outline of the lesson with instructions for the different activities, references and the teacher’s personal notes on the subject matter; students will also have access to emailing the teacher regarding any questions or concerns they may have regarding the overall assignment or activities of the lesson.

This Technofied Lesson Plan is surrounding the subject of the famous Renaissance painter, Leonardo da Vinci.  Through a combination of research, different technologies, and Leonardo’s paintings, studies, and inventions, students will complete four different activities to further develop their understanding of Leonardo and why his is considered “The Renaissance Man”.

With each activity, they will use different forms of technology to complete the activity.

For the first activity, students will be using different forms of research by different means and creating a generalized post or upload a document of their notes regarding the research they found.

With the second activity, the students will be recreating the Mona Lisa through the use of the application, Photoshop; combining their own personal view of the painting with the histories and controversies that surround the painting will create this recreation. Once the students have completed this activity they will post it on to their blog. 

The third activity will reference Leonardo’s famous notebooks. Students will be given the opportunity to choose from three different subjects (subjects that Leonardo studied during his time), and will create their own versions of these notebooks on their blog. They will create three separate posts on their blog to complete this assignment and cite their references as well.

For the final and forth activity, students will be using references from Leonardo’s studies and inventions revolving around “Those Wonderful Flying Things”, and will be designing and creating their own versions of Leonardo’s flying contraptions. Although students will be using references and research based on Leonardo, their overall design will be something with their personal touch. To create their own flying contraptions, students will be using a 3-D printer to create actual models of their flying contraptions.

By using these different technologies, I will be able to approach the art history lesson in a different manner that will help change the students’ views of art history as being boring and make them understand oh wonderfully interactive it could be. Giving these students the opportunity to develop their understandings through these different means allows them to not only develop their understanding of technology use in the classroom, but also will be able to take these different activities and add their own creativity, imagination and personal touches to each assignment.