REPRESENTING

Objective

• The purpose of these activities is to provide guidelines for the parents to scaffold children’s learning of effective representing with education apps.

• Effective representing involves authoring activities and creativity in which one uses imagination to develop an artistic work that may be aesthetically attractive by manipulating available features such as visual symmetry, visual balance, bright colours, contrasting colours, composition, layout, size, and so on.

• The learning activities are divided into 4 sessions according to Cope and Kalantzis’ (2015) Learning by Design framework.

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Materials

Resources

• Tablet/IPad

• Internet

• Doodle Buddy Paint Draw app, Joy Doodle, Draw it!, and so on.

SESSION 1 - EXPERIENCING/SITUATED PRACTICE

​Duration - 30 mins (variable)

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• In the first session, when using educational apps such as, Doodle Buddy Paint Draw app, parents can guide children to associate colours and shapes with the following prompters:

  • What do you think of when you see this colour?

  • What do you think of when you see this shape?

SESSION 2 - CONCEPTUALISING/OVERT INSTRUCTION

Duration - 30 mins (variable)

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• During the second session, after children have acquired a basic knowledge of using colours and shapes in effective representing, parents can proceed to guide children on how combining colours and shapes can lead to various effects on the audience using the following prompters:

  • What colours and shapes can be combined to look messy?

  • What colours and shapes can be combined to look attractive?

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SESSION 3 - ANALYSING/CRITICAL FRAMING

Duration - 30 mins (variable)

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• During the third session, parents can guide children to explore different forms of representations using the following prompters:

  • How can we draw objects to look realistic?

  • Where can we draw objects to look artistic?

SESSION 4 - APPLYING/TRANSFORMED PRACTICE

Duration - 30 mins (variable)

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• In the fourth session, parents can support children to perform the authoring activities using the following prompters:

  • Shall we create a picture together using this app?

  • Shall we share our artistic work online?

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Contributor: TWM