This blog supports a fall 2020 OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Internship course in the Artists, Community, and Teaching (ACT) Program

 

The Artists, Community, and Teaching (ACT) Program prepares students for a range of professional practices as socially engaged artists, designers and educators in diverse communities and contexts through two minors:  Community Arts Engagement and Teacher Credential Preparation. .

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In addition to our traditional internships, Fall 2020 ACT Interns partner with Art’s Instructors and Academic Instructors from SMASH (Santa Monica Alternative School House)  to Design Visually-based Digital Learning Objects that enhance the delivery of curriculum in a Covid-19 remote learning environment.

 

What will this look like?  In a deep dive, human centered design framework, Smash teachers work  side by side with us to suggest a specific  classroom “need”s for  remote Micro–Learning Objects that support an online lesson that they are teaching this fall. 

 

Using the rigors of the Design Process, Universal Design and Unparalleled Creativity, Otis ACT students design remote Micro–Learning prototypes for SMASH partners to test in Fall 2020 "classrooms."  Our goal is to explore transformative, student-led digital learning that is human centered and heart-built.

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Find readings, thoughts, primary research interviews and experiments as you get a sneak peak into an extraordinary team of seasoned teachers, administrators, professional digital educators and  Otis ACT student teachers who not only want to make a difference, but actively engage in the messy process of doing so.

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Patricia Kovic

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