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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flipped Classroom and Its Applications in Art Disciplines by Gabriela Ileana Crisan
The idea of plurality , replacing those of the progress , has determined in post-modern society , permanent changes in education , searches for the best solutions for ensuring the success of students in personal , social and professional life . Thus , since constructivism and continuing with holism or morphology theories , under pressure from the avalanche of information generated by the development of ICT , the boundaries of disciplines become flexible , which causes interdisciplinarity . The subjects are reorganized , new curricula appear and teaching strategy should ensure the connection between the knowledge and skills , often using ICT to make this process motivating . pronounced similarities between them . A comparison made between the two pedagogical approaches has highlighted differences in terms of space , time , culture of learning , content , the role of the teacher and the students . Both use ICTs in achieving learning goals .
The eTwinning portal facilitates , through its applications , collaborative projects and constitutes a proper environment for testing tools and teaching methods . ARTmania is a project in which we tried to establish the role of flipped classroom strategy to increase student performance in the Visual Arts discipline .
Performing the Visual Arts discipline skills
Using the ICT in ARTmania project
One of the solutions to the challenges of contemporary education is the creation of mirrorclasses or flipped classroom by changing the role of the classroom . Going through content at their own pace , exercising it in class , reducing the gap between students in terms of rapidity of understanding the information , monitoring students during exercising , collaborative learning , moving in assessing the significance of the grades to knowledge are just some of the benefits that this strategy brings compared to traditional pedagogical strategies .
The flipped classroom concept is often confused with flipped learning , especially due to very
Framing the issue of artistic compositions shows , after using the flipped classroom strategy , visible improvements in the inclusion of all the key elements , combining techniques , familiarization with the tools and their proper use , drawing proper cough and understanding the theme . Messages drawn from student work , even if there are difficulties in linking it with theme , have a purpose , feelings are shown and ideas presented . Students become aware that a drawing meets certain rules of composition : they use a variety of lines expressing feelings , proportions are preserved , contours are well highlighted , in spontaneous or developed forms ideas or feelings can be transposed , the colors , shades , evenly distributed , the compositional space can be enriched with elements of ornamentation .
The same compositional space presents a balance of elements , where the centerpiece is well highlighted . Originality and creativity of the plastic compositions grow because students are no longer afraid of colour , and express their feelings freely by mixing colors .
Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy using Web tools for presenting content . Online lessons
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