Teaching the idea of Generation: Students should be encouraged to actively hunt and scratch for ideas, not just wait for inspiration to find them. Old art textbooks and magazines can be great places to scratch (rather than just searching the web) as there is physical movement when handling books and can provide students with a new method of scratching. Taking a “field trip” and getting out of the classroom can also provide students with a way to generate new ideas.
Teaching the idea of Retention: In the art classroom, ideas can be held onto through journaling. Journals could contain drawings, photographs, magazine clippings, etc. In an art classroom with access to technology, journaling can take the form of blogging, where ideas can receive feedback from others.
Teaching the idea of Inspection: By blogging and receiving feedback from peers, students learn how to make decisions about what ideas are good and which are the best to implement. Through physical journals they can circle and make notes about which ideas, or parts of ideas, are good.
Teaching the idea of Transformation: Ideas can be implemented into future artworks. If the journals or blogs are started at the beginning of the semester, these early ideas can serve as jumping-off points for artmaking throughout the semester.
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