Mobile Media In and Outside of the Art Classroom: Attending to Identity, Spatiality, and Materiality

237 Pages·2019·4.676 MB·English

by  Juan Carlos Castro

Mobile Media In and
Outside of the Art
Classroom
Attending to Identity, Spatiality,
and Materiality
Edited by
Juan Carlos Castro
Mobile Media In and Outside of the Art Classroom
“Mobile media are changing teaching and learning. Impressive are the ways that
the contributors to this volume use Design-based Research (DBR) to propose
educational interventions that assist students in the critical use of mobile media
to advance social and civic engagement. Mobile Media In and Outside of the
Art Classroom: Attending to Identity, Spatiality, and Materiality is a must-read
primer on a topic that could not be more timely.”
—Doug Blandy, Professor of School of Planning, Public Policy,
and Management, University of Oregon, USA
“Castro and his collaborators’ vivid account of teaching and researching teen
artists has everything, and gets it right. For art teachers and teacher educators,
there’s the real-time enactment of a conceptually rich photography curriculum
that deftly merges teens’ expressive interests, contemporary image-making skills,
and the mobility of social media. For readers interested in research design and
pedagogical findings on adolescent artmaking, the book’s theoretical framing and
qualitative analysis are compelling and insightful. A must-read for all art educa-
tors and pedagogical researchers.”
—Mary Hafeli, Professor of Art and Art Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University, USA, and Author of Exploring Studio Materials:
Teaching Creative Artmaking to Children and co-editor (with Judith Burton) of
Conversations in Art: The Dialectics of Teaching and Learning
“In this important anthology, art educator Juan Carlos Castro brings research
expertise and practical classroom experience together. This book generates ques-
tions and strategies for engaging students in their visual communities while chal-
lenging assumptions about curriculum. Both creative and critical, Castro’s team
of art education researchers focus on the centre of a complex of emerging chal-
lenges: how students can learn ‘with’ mobile media and why educators should
grow past simply being ‘for’ or ‘against’ those technologies.”
—Michael J. Emme, Associate Professor of Art Education in the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, University of Victoria, Canada, and Editor of
Arts-based Approaches to Collaborative Research with Children and Youth
“Increasingly youths are engaging in ubiquitous smartphone usage shared
through mobile social networks. In this text, the authors describe compelling,
longitudinal research about effective and creative ways in which to use influ-
ential, highly engaging digital technologies in today’s classrooms. The authors
question traditional pedagogical approaches, provide useful information about
curricula development, and reframe changing student and teacher roles. This
is an extremely important, provocative book for educators, administrators, and
researchers confronting the ubiquity of smartphone and social media usage in
today’s fast-paced, transforming world.”
—Joanna Black, Professor in the Faculty of Education,
University of Manitoba, Canada
Juan Carlos Castro
Editor
Mobile Media
In and Outside
of the Art Classroom
Attending to Identity, Spatiality, and Materiality
Editor
Juan Carlos Castro
Concordia University
Montreal, QC, Canada
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cknowledgements
I gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canadian Social
Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Quebec
Fonds de recherche Société et culture (FRQSC) who supported this
research through two grants: a SSHRC Insight Grant, “MonCoin:
Investigating Mobile Learning Networks to Foster Educational
Engagement with At-Risk Youth” (Juan Carlos Castro, principal inves-
tigator; David Pariser, co-investigator), and a FRQSC, Établissement
de Nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs grant entitled “L’enseignement
des arts visuels et médiatiques en contexte d’apprentissage mobile pour
le renforcement de l’engagement social et de la motivation scolaire des
adolescents” (Juan Carlos Castro, principal investigator).
I want to thank David Pariser, who has been a tremendous research
partner, collaborator, mentor, and a McNulty to my Bunk. My research
and this book would not have been possible without the immense con-
tributions and support of Martin Lalonde, Ehsan Akbari, Lina Moreno,
Bettina Forget, and G. H. Greer. As contributors to this book, graduate
students, research assistants, and colleagues, they have taught me more
than I could ever have taught them. I would also like to thank Melissa
Ledo, Matthew Thomson, and Marie-Pier Viens, whose research support
on the MonCoin Project was instrumental in its success.
Thank you to the cooperating teachers and students of the MonCoin
project who taught us how teaching and learning happens. A big thank
you to two of our cooperating teachers, Anne Pilon and Sabrina Bejba,
for their valuable contributions to this book.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to Léah Snider, whose smarts, can-do attitude, and organiza-
tional masterwork helped bring this book together.
Projects like these are always supported by those who help carry you
through the day-to-day realities of life. A big thank you to Lorrie Blair,
Stan Charbonneau, and Larissa Yousoubova for their support.
Finally, my deepest gratitude to Aileen Pugliese Castro for her uncon-
ditional love and confidence in me—I would not have accomplished
what I have done without her.
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ontents
1 Introduction: The MonCoin Project 1
Juan Carlos Castro
2 The Connected Image in Mobile and Social Media:
The Visual Instances of Adolescents Becoming 27
Martin Lalonde
3 The Social Organization of Students in Class Versus
in an Online Social Network: Freedom and Constraint
in Two Different Settings 47
David Pariser and Bettina Forget
4 Girls and Their Smartphones: Emergent Learning
Through Apps That Enable 77
Bettina Forget
5 Spatiality of Engagement 103
Ehsan Akbari
6 Spatial Missions: My Surroundings,
My Neighbourhood, My School 127
Ehsan Akbari
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x CONTENTS
7 Integrating Traditional Art Making Processes and
New Technology in the High School Curriculum 151
Anne Pilon
8 The New Point and Shoot: Photography Lessons
Using Phones and Scanners 165
Sabrina Bejba
9 Visual Mapping Workshop: Materializing Networks
of Meaning 183
Lina Maria Moreno
10 Conclusion: Heeding Enchantments and Disconnecting
Dots—A Sociomaterialist Pedagogy of Things 193
G. H. Greer
Index 221