week05 Sarah Modoh: Origination_18.08.2012 ~

Origination Sarah Modoh

week 05 questionaire: Law 4

1) Describe the relationship between teaching and learning according to Maeda?
John Maeda says it’s easier to teach because all you have to do is act like you know all the answers than learn, because when you learn from a professor you not only have to take it in but you have to translate it to your understandings.

There’s a difference between good teachers and bad teachers. Good teachers know how to explain what they’re saying and bad teachers don’t now what they’re doing.

Different exciting ways to repeat information so its not boring.
2) Describe the importance of the use of metaphors in learning, why would you use
them, how, give an example?
Why: It’s important to use metaphors in learning to ‘Inspire’ your students so they get a better understanding. Vice versa for students.

How: You would use metaphors when someone doesn’t understand something and your trying to explain it to them, because when you explain something when they can relate to it or know something of it, its easier to understand and absorb.

Example: Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet
When you’re teaching you have to know how to motivate and inspire your students to absorb the information.
What makes a good student is to wanting to learn, and to want to be there and want that knowledge.
3) BRAIN - what does the acronym stand for – why is it important?
Basics: Are the beginning
Repeat: Yourself often
Avoid: creating desperation
Inspire: With example
Never: forget to repeat yourself
4) Describe a situation where you have been required to teach someone a skill.
How could you apply the BRAIN principle to it?
Cooking:
Basics: where I get all the ingredients.
Repeat: constantly read the steps so I get it right.
Avoid: avoid asking my mum so it looks like I know what I’m doing.
Inspire: maybe call someone that knows how to cook so they can give me direction and inspire me.
Never: keep repeating myself and checking up on the food.

Also what happened in class is that we changed the name of the Exhibition from "Blox" to "Blossom", that was a epic fail. Jarrod and I came up with a good concept of climbing filigree curvilinear looking shapes for the poster because there was a lot of opinions about the smoke effect that Jarrod put on his poster. I thought it was really great and had a nice clean look so I still want to incorporate that into the new poster design. The new name we were thinking of is "Burst" and i really think its has a contemporary, new energy feel to the name. I also would share this all in Google docs but for some reason Jarrod and my docs wont share and i can't even attach an image to my doc.



R001 - The burst concept layout. This is what I've come up with.

Well I couldn't find the original video of what inspired me to like the word Burst. But I'll just try to describe it to you. So there's these crystal shaped flowers and there blooming. while they're blooming there creeping and growing downwards and all of a sudden some lady is walking down on the crystal blossoms as if they were stairs and shes holding a pad box. Because this ad is about pads. But I can't find it anywhere so I can't show you but heres something about change and I guess burst. It's a beer ad for Boag's Draught. From the Pure waters of Tasmania.

R002 - Boag's Draught: From the pure waters of Tasmania. This ad always makes me giggle and somewhat makes my head a bit clearer.