.: Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm

Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/02/twitter.farmer/index.html

Story Highlights

Smartphones and online social networks are gaining popularity on farms
Farmers use Internet phones to check weather and monitor pesticides
Nebraska farmer says his Twitter posts help bridge the urban-rural divide
Another says phones and social media connect eaters with sources of food

The projects I facilitate enable people to reflect on their own experiences in public space and culture. They are intended to address the relationship between aesthetics and social processes and to promote the collaborative action of interdisciplinary creativity. Participants develop the ability to communicate visually using art and design as a language that is socially meaningful and culturally critical.

This understanding can occur in the classroom in the education of students in a rigorous academic curriculum as well as through creative practices that serve society. These practices can create diversity of perspectives, experiences and traditions which are essential components of a quality education in our global context.

I am motivated by the opportunity to create lesson plans and educational models that use art and design to engage learning, and explore a diversity of content, pedagogies, and approaches.