Monday, May 11, 2009

Collaborative Art



This is a conversation in white board form. I think there were 4 or 5 girls involved here, and they were talking, and writing, and drawing - and dividing the big board into various little sections.

Many kids love to talk while they are drawing, as if the two things are part of each other. Kindergarteners will often make sound effects to go with their lines.

I also like the way they had to negotiate to figure out who was going to write where - that had to be interesting...

In school we always tell kids not to copy off each other's paper, but artists and thinkers from Picasso to Einstein point out that great creations come from great inspirations and sources. So I love when the kids are bouncing ideas off one another like this. You can just see the synapses firing off.

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