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Ideas for Varying the Critique
The following Critique Building Blocks will give you some ideas about ways to vary your critiques. Use them, or the quick ideas below, in conjunction with rubrics or groupwork ideas to create interesting, inspiring critique experiences for your class:
Critique Building Blocks:
Designer/Client Roleplay
The teacher acts as the client. The student is the designer - pitching an idea, for example. Other students can comment on how likely the client is to continue working with this designer, or how likely he is to buy the idea. Other students might also, at a certain point, jump into the discussion as a member of the designer's team to help him out.
Gallery Walk (for details, see Gallery Walk Critique)
Under each piece, put a blank sheet of paper (or a simple form - for an example, see Gallery Walk Handout). Give students fifteen minutes to circulate and write comments under a set number of pieces. Follow up with a teacher-fronted discussion, small group critique, or individual check-in with each student.
Have students present each others' work
Give students five minutes to prep their partners. Each student presents his or her partner's work.
Speed presentation practice
If students are having trouble articulating thoughts during presentations of their work, this exercise gives them and opportunity to practice:
1. Line them up in two lines facing each other: Line A and Line B.
2. Set a fairly short time limit (three minutes?) for each conversation.
3. Line A students present to their partners in Line B. Line B students should ask for clarification if the ideas aren't clear.
4. At the end of the time limit, stop the conversation.
5. Have the student at the end of Line A move to the other end of the line, and all of the student move one step down the line to a new partner.
6. Repeat with Line B students presenting to their Line A partners.
7. Repeat until each student has presented at least three times.
"VOTE!"
Student presents three possible directions (or concepts) for his next project. Other students ask questions. All students vote on the ideas on a piece of paper, which is turned in to the teacher.
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