Week 10

Finding a solution to the stay at home order

Throughout this week I have found my own struggles with learning at home. This becomes more prominent when I think of the struggles of the students at Spero. In their day to day life, they have many struggles beyond school. So how is the transition to online schooling affecting them? Right now many students from elementary to college are struggling with this transition. I think of all of this as I work on my lesson plan.

3D animation is a difficult field that requires a lot of software and technical decisions. This is hard to teach to people in my age range, much less for 6th graders. Looking at it from the teaching artist's perspective, how do I teach using my practice? In my lessons, I have thought back to the basics of animation and tried to integrate the general ideas of animation. My new struggles with all of this now are how to integrate these techniques while students have less access to materials. I have rummaged online and looked at many different techniques and lesson plans. What I have gathered so far is that there are materials at home that many students have potential access to that I can integrate into my lesson. As I continue my research I find many possibilities to how we our online lessons can benefit them.