Seminar: Concept

What is a concept? 

An understanding retained from the mind, from experience, reasoning, imagination. A generalisation or abstraction of a particular set of instances or occurrences. 

What is my concept?

A documentation of my family and I as we deal with the loss of my mother. Photographing people, places and objects that remind us of her, keeping her memories alive in photos without her presence. Based around the concept of love, loss and nostalgia. 

How can you present a concept?

• Discussion
• Written form/artist statement
• Visually
• Research
• Making

Learning by design (Kalantzis)

Experiencing:

The Known - learners reflect on their own familiar experiences, interests and perspectives. 

The New - learners observe or take part in something that is unfamiliar, they are immersed in new situations or concepts. 

Conceptualising:

By Name - learners group things into categories, apply classifying terms and define these terms.

With Theory - learners make generalisations using concepts and connect terms in concept maps or theories.

Analysing:

Functionally - learners analyse logical connections, cause and effect structure and function.

Critically - leaners evaluate their own and other peoples perspectives, interests and motives. 

Applying:

Appropriately - learners apply new learning to real world situations and test their ability. 

Creatively - make an intervention in the world which is innovative and creative or transfer their learning to a different context. 

The use of intent in concept

The understanding of your concept (process) within an appropriate context.

Design your own process

During this session Ross got us to fill our process the same as the Kalantzis design. This had helped him and will help us with ours.