This is the last post in this series for a while, I want to complete the process this semester in order to conclude more precisely the issue.
For now I want to share some situations concerning the preconceptions that many art students have about the program and its relationship with new media. It is worth noting that all my students have chosen to study new media, with the option of studying painting, printmaking, video, photography and other disciplinary options that the race offered as part of their education as professionals and visual arts. For this reason I've worked hard to understand why some students have refused to learn Processing, arguing that the language is very complicated and ensuring they do not have the skills to learn. After an analysis of the situation and the students involved, I conclude that this is due to 2 situations: the first is connected with literacy problems, undiagnosed, that hinder student learning processes (though other students with similar problems have managed to study hard to learn this language at home). Many art students have literacy problems and they generally do not prevent complete their studies due to technical and skill to show off the image production, the problem occurs when the visual image is produced from text. The second situation is related to the fear of mathematics and logic fed into the primary and secondary education. The solution to either of these problems depends largely on student engagement with their own process, but equally I think it is the responsibility of teachers to motivate students. Throughout this semester I've been wondering about the possible strategies to appeal to everyone, since not enough to present to learn a programming language as a necessary and important, I present it as affordable and interesting. Over time I realized that the processing site there is enough material that can be used to engage students by showing them the result of processes performed by other artists that are posted on this site. Next semester I will always include a review of these papers, as well as other sites I found by Latin American artists who carry out projects with fewer resources. Yet I believe that this is not enough and I have to think of better strategies. In
realación this issue of motivation I've been thinking a lot about the topic of student's independent study. To understand any programming language or any language in general is necessary to work individually, at least twice the work in the classroom. Analyzing the performance of my students in front of the logical processes, memorization of the syntax of the language and understanding of the processes, I have concluded that only 10% of students study on their own. This was something we discuss with a friend, a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, who told me that usually in the field of engineering is that most students learn their own language and that teachers act as ; guides a process purely personal (maybe put it in other words to explain the methodology, more or less "Chinese go study.") Of course this does not apply to the faculty of arts, or at least not yet. One solution I've found to this problem is to require the delivery of a daily job, I will not do something next semester because most students do not know what to do or do not have a particular project to complete. I am preparing a list of exercises that will give the students, also indicating the clear parameters of each financial year, the deadlines for the delivery of each exercise. I think that this way I will develop in the classroom all subjects at a higher rate and provide all the development work of the end of the semester.
For the moment I have more to say. In late May to revisit this issue again to tell them how I was.
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