Learning Process: Artist vs.Gamer

1. Learning Process: Artist vs.Gamer Outline of Presentation by Jennifer Grasl

2. Outline: • Slide 1: Learning Process: Artist • Slide 2: Learning Process: Gamer • Slide 3: Right and Left Hemisphere Learning Characteristics • Slide 4: Determine Your Dominant Side • Slide 5: How This Impacts The Learning Process • Slide 6: Research Findings • Slide 7: Conclusion

3. Learning Process: Artist

4. Learning Process: Gamer

5. Right and Left Hemisphere Learning Characteristics Left Hemisphere Style Right Hemisphere Style • Intuitive • Problem solves with hunches, looking for patterns and • configurations • Looks at similarities • Is fluid and spontaneous • Prefers elusive, uncertain information • Prefers drawing and manipulating objects • Prefers open ended questions • Free with feelings • Responds to demonstrated instructions • Prefers collegial authority structures • Rational • Problem solves by logically and sequentially looking • at the parts of things • Looks at differences • Is planned and structured • Prefers established, certain information • Prefers talking and writing • Prefers multiple choice tests • Controls feelings • Prefers ranked authority structures • Responds to verbal instructions • Sequential • Is a splitter: distinction important • Is logical, sees cause and effect • Simultaneous • Is a lumper: connectedness important • Is analogical, sees correspondences, resemblances Draws on previously accumulated, organized information Draws on unbounded qualitative patterns that are not organized into sequences, but that cluster around images

6. Determine Your Dominant Side

7. How This ImpactsThe Learning Process?

8. Research Findings • Traditional aspect of teaching art: Art History. Sample Art. Real-Life Experience • Independent Research: Assigned Artist. Use of Internet to find facts and examples. • Assessment Similarities: Observed information. Process their perception of that observation. Applied it to their real-life experiences. Problem solved how to make their mental image a reality. Produced a finish piece of art. • Assessment Differences: Independent research group provided more variety in their art. More retention of Art History. Introduction of new artist not previously introduced.

9. Conclusion

10. Resources • Edwards, B. (1989). Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. JP Tarcher • Edwards, B. (1999). The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Putnam Publishing Group • Kapp, K. (2007). Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning. John Wiley & Sons. Inc. • Purcell, C. (2004). Painting with Your Artist's Brain: Learn to Paint What You See - Not What You Think You See. North Light Books • Tapscott, D. (2008) Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. McGraw-Hill.

11. Websites •  http://www.artofperception.com/ • http://brain.web-us.com/brain/right_left_brain_characteristics.htmWebsite 2 • www.drawright.com • The Shift http://learn-to-draw.net/theshift.aspx.

12. Images • http://www.ballybegvillage.com/images/Painting/artist-working.jpg • http://www.lailashahzada.com/Images/oil_painting_the_frenzy.jpg • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XBW5bKnkdTI/Svd1q_-U2VI/AAAAAAAAACI/4fm0zyMB9_0/s320/picture-6.png • http://epikal.com/wp-content/images/2009/07/Perception-Is-Reality-Artwork.jpg • http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/technology/gallery/2007/dec/13/christmas.gadgets/top10-89.jpg • http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/12/16/icon_games3_dec17,0.jpg • http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/01/lw1_games_wideweb__470x358,0.jpg • http://whollysblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/apple-ipad-games.jpg • http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2007/322/reviews/932984_20071119_screen001.jpg • http://electricartscorp.com/images/3D%20Art%20-%20Technology%20Meets%20Nature.jpg