Interviews with Students about Collage

 

After doing the lesson about the online collage, I sat down with two students and asked them what they thought. The first question I asked was, "What did you learn about a collage?" The high performing student (Student A) answered that they learned that it was layering of a bunch of stuff. They also stated that you overlap things to create the layers and so you can see the background and what is in the foreground. I was very surprised with the answer. It is pretty spot on. The struggling student (Student B) was asked the same thing. They said that it was a bunch of stuff thrown together on paper or whatever you want the bottom layer to be. Student B tried, but didn't quite get the skill of layering to show depth. After the online collage, they were asked which one they liked better. Both students said they liked the online collage. Student A said it was because they had more pictures and shapes to choose from and could flip them or change if they are see through or not. Student B said they liked it because it was like a video game. I wasn't surprised that they liked the online collage because more art is going electronic these days. I was, however, surprised that their answers showed what they saw important. Student A got the concept of using collage online to create the same thing as before with the paper. To Student B, video games and playing are important. They didn't think of using the online collage as a learning tool.

                          Student A                                                                         Student B