I think it is important for today’s youth to have the ability to think independently and make things with their hands because these skills can help us solve problems better, think creatively, and improve our analytical and problem-solving skills in three different activities to practice our ability.
In the first class of real-world media on Tuesday, we start by making our own crafts such as folding different shapes of frogs, boxes, cranes, etc, with paper. Then we do the second activity which is to shoot 30 horizontal short videos and finally edit these 30 videos into a 2 minutes video. Through the first origami activity and second activity, I chose to fold a frog but I didn’t succeed because some of the steps were a bit difficult. Although I didn’t succeed, the process is more important than the result (Ingold and Tim 2010:91). Activities are a way to explore knowledge, not only will promote brain development activities can also enhance the training of our observation, creativity, imagination.
Moreover, we also have another activity on Thursday which is a brainstorming session with the media. We have expanded on the topic of media to include many things that are media related such as movies, news, information and so on. Thus, brainstorming is not only a clash of ideas but also a form of developing our creativity and imagination(Klee 1973). In short, we will gradually develop the habit of observing things around us carefully and grasp the characteristics of things more and more precisely. Although I found origami a little difficult but I learn to think about making things and I am very enjoy this three activity.
Reference list:
Ingold and Tim(2010), The Textility of Making:Being Alive, Cambridge journal of economics, p91.
Klee, P(1973) Notebooks, Volume 2: The Nature of Nature, trans. H. Norden, edited by J. Spiller, London, Lund Humphries.
Background music:
Effect piano(2019), ‘The night of confession – Ayasa Gorgeous – special effects piano’,YouTube website, accessed 5 December 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4KiuYrWPnY
My video and pictures(shot by myself)