Art with Cell Phones: Mobile Devices in Elementary School Art Classes
Art with technology; e-art/education; Art teaching; Digital Triangular Approach
The mobile phones could be used as a didatics resource with many possibilities of pedagogical interation in a school art education, but it is still little explored and valued. In this context, the present research aims to analyze the potentialities and challenges of a pedagogical proposal that adopts the cell phone and mobile devices in art classes in practical activities carried out in Elementary School final grades. This work is part of the postgraduate program in the research line of teaching, learning and creation processes in the arts of the Professional Master in Arts - Prof-Artes (UnB). The pedagogical proposal Arte com Celular was carried out in a public school in the Federal District with students from the 6th, 7th and 9th grade of Elementary School. The elaboration, implementation and reflection on this proposal adopts the Digital Triangular Approach (CUNHA, 2008) as a theoretical and methodological basis. The action-reflection cycle adopts action-research principles according to MacNiff and Whitehead (2006). The pedagogical proposal was first structured in four stages: Axis 01 (welcome and problematization of the pandemic), Axis 02 (identity construction), Axis 03 (digital narratives) and Axis 04 (evaluation). The process of teaching, learning and artistic production was described and discussed. Its results point to receptivity, creativity and reflection on the artistic productions carried out. The use of cell phones in the aesthetic experience proved to be effective and motivating. It is hoped that this proposal, discussed and restructured, may serve as an inspiration for teaching art at school and in other contexts.