Blog 2
Digital space Frustration. Sunday 21st January
Digital space is great when it works as a tool that can help you, but the biggest part of it is when it doesn’t work and when one loses control.
I have currently spent most of the weekend trying to fix the programs on my laptop. Several emails to support and phone calls but no joy, hopefully when I`m back on site some of these issues can be resolved they say, but what it does to me it makes me quite frustrated, alone, and full of high anxiety (this is like car rage) as I have not achieved my weekend task on reading and preparing for my micro workshop.
This takes me back in time to COVID where isolation was the new norm.
Digital space really takes off now in the teaching practise, it makes us more aware of the world around us and where our students live and their heritage, bring new conversations to our teaching practise.
According to Orr and Shreeve (2017) “There are however courses which now teach only through computer-aided design and no longer manufacture physical artefacts. This goes to the heart of our Western higher educational values evolved from William Morris and Arts and Crafts movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century. He believed that to know a craft, you had to experience it with your own hands.”
My reflection on this is that I paused, I stopped, I went into my kitchen to create and cook with my hands (is this a studio space?). Still allowing us to use our hands and divert from the digital world. When we create with our hands the mindset calms down and then anxiety levels reduce.
How do we apply this to our teaching practise to ensure students are prepared about the digital information needed? Links work and ensure machines work in our workshops, allowing them to have space to create in.
Reference List
Orr, S., & Shreeve, A. (2017) Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education : Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum. Taylor and Francis Group, Milton. p94