Desinging To Learn

High Tide Torrey Pines tdc1271 DS106 daily create 1271 Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa . Combined with a photo I took at Torrey Pines . I accessed the image from google cultural institute .

Ms Kitty blind contour Our minds create symbols in the world that we see so that we can make inferences and judgments. Learning to draw is the beginning of a new relationship with the world and it's like seeing the world for the first time. Blind contour drawings are useful as a practice to learn how to draw. It helps create trust between your eyes, your mind, and your muscles. It reduces tendencies in most beginner drawers to draw what is known rather than drawing what you see. Blind contour drawings are practice in drawing what you see. Draw what you see, not the symbol of something that you see. tdc1258 , The Daily Create , DS106

Moving from literacy and ‘new literacies’ to D iscourse. In chapter one of New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning Ed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel . I learned about literacy as a historical concept and a social practice. I also learned about new literacies as ‘paradigmatic’ and ‘ontological’ (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 27). In chapter two I began to learn more about literacy as a social practice through Discourses and encoded texts. “Hence, literacies are ‘socially recognized ways in which people generate, communicate, and negotiate meanings, as members of Discourses, through the medium of encoded texts.”  (Lankshear & Knobel, 2011, p. 50). As a social practice one can think of literacy as observable ‘things’ humans do with their bodies and minds to create meaning. Lankshear and Knobel cite the work of Scribner and Cole to describe these practices as “consisting of three components: technology, knowledge, and skills. (ibid,: 2...