What is it to learn?
In
the nano project I had this idea that the articulated structures I have been creating in response to the choreography in the laboratory if miniaturised to a nano scale could in
some way inform an understanding of the movement of electrons around atoms,
thus bringing knowledge to ideas around dark matter and the gaps between
things. The wonderful thing about the job is that I don't mind not knowing in
fact I think I revel in it and when realising that things I have conceived of
aren't even possible ideas or that my language is not just wrong but the
hypothesis underpinning my idea/revelation isn't even a thing in the first
place. The conversations that ensue are a joy. This was the experience on
Friday.
I
often expect a rigour of thought with the students I encounter and I
have had that experience myself....I have had work and proposals I put
forward shaped with a rigour I hope that I bring to my own students practice. Meaning
has been brought into the thinking and a clarity of intention that was not
there previously is now embedded within the work and the proposed exhibition. A busy
week at NUA where I delivered and was part of a great peer review session with
year 2 exploring what it is to assess and make sense of the work around us https://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/ba2-peer-assessment-learning
and with year 3 a workshop on recognising and developing a USP a Unique Selling
Point. https://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/pdp-what-makes-you-interesting-1-usp
