What I got out of Thomas A. Oakley's article was that we should think more about the way we think. In school students are thinking, but they aren't usually asking their selves why the think that or try to rationalize problems out a different way. Drawing is one way to rationalize problems to find how we are really thinking or feeling. In a an art classroom, art is obviously created. But, how often does one stop to think how art is actually created? And then put that into a picture.
Oakley also stated that art is something that is learned. I have never thought of it this way; I just always assumed that art is something you are born with.. like a gift. I think that this is important that he taught his students that because not all students in an art class may have the same passion for art or view themselves as artistic.
The Rube Goldberg website is very entertaining. I like how he thought out crazy inventions and put them into a cartoon. They can be used as artwork and humor.
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Ashley...one of the points of doing a Rube Goldberg drawing is exactly what you said...thinking about thinking, or metacognition. The process of visually representing that thinking is a concrete expression of ideas. It's amazing how sophisticated kids thinking can be!
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