REPORT Artmile International Collaborative Learning 2019
Country/Region [ France ]School[ Le Likès QUIMPER ] Teacher [ Lionel P oiraudeau ]JP school [Seisa Dohto University] Teacher [ Isao Umeda ]Grade ( 16-17yrs )Members ( 33 )# Subjects, Activities and Hours of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
Introductions of partners + A sequence about Freedom in creation with guest
ENGLISHpoets and painters
A joint sequence to prepare for improvisation event around a music composer
ARTS& happening event in April
The painting of the mural itself

Hours15104# Theme and Message of the mural
Freedom in creation
ThemeMessage
United thoughts to share withthe world

For a lot of artists, inspiration comes and goes. It is free .. Art comes before
everything else , an essential form of freedom. Let us close our eyes, dream about
things...then words , shapes and colours will come to us . No matter what you are
painting or writing or singing about, it has to make you proud of yourself, of what you
did . Of course people’s remarks can be hard to hear sometimes, but you have toaccept them to be better because what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. In arts wemust do what we can , evolve .. We can transform ourselves through our creation andbecome a new person , discover new forms of freedom that will transform us
again ..Don’t blame your work , only try to get new experiences for yourself ...and toshare ...The more we discover the more freedom and the more ideas we can have . The
more freedom you have the more you can create ..art, poems, paintings, music ...Youcan create from and about everything , see and live differences .. Everything andeverybody is different ...
Keep moving . Music like all forms of movements can be a source of inspiration like themovement of the train when travelling ...It is this movement that gives inspiration andthe feeling of freedom . It is important to take time for ourselves out of the usual rush
to have time for thinking, for feeling free , because creating must be in our everyday
life if we want it to be more intense
Freedom in art is the fact that we can paint our emotions without being insulting ormean to anyone . Maybe sometimes we need to express anger, sarcasm, or denounce
something . But we need to do it with respect and be left alone to do it in a free way ,without constraints from other people . In the first time it is not for other people but
for ourselves , to express emotions that can be understood without words .
If artists want to do something they don’t need to think , just act ..because they areunique, each one of them in his or her own difference . It is really important to preserve
this difference because in our world if you want to meet success, you need to show
you are different . And this means the freedom to be and act different .Catch themoment and share it in your art . That is exactly the goal of social media now . The
freedom of artists is protected by laws in many countries at least . Artists are here toshare and also denounce the problems of our societies : abuse of power, childslavery ... Wherever we live , if we want to reach our goal, we need to be unique . So
freedom is everything : act and don’t be scared of criticism because you can’t be likeby everyone , but you only have one life .
We have to consider the pressures artists have to face because today, you have to be
productive, or else you disappear from the scene .. You need exposure to be able tofend for yourself and develop your own independant span of creation . Artists must notstop being active ..

# Effects and Problems
Effects your students have gained

Points for further improvement
Our students were happy to share the experience of the An online platform has been set up to enable
guest artists we received before completing the process professional artists to exchange between Hokkaido,of improvisation that we agreed to be the basis of the Japan and Brittany, France. We hope this platform
mural. They were also invited to improve abilities to will live and possibly feature our students
synthesize what they saw, heard..as this was one of the themselves when they start showing theirintegrated learning skills they had to develop in their production in the future.
English lessons . In their Arts lessons they could https://brittanyjapaninarts.wordpress.com/
experience partnership in creation: this collective
approach with multiple layers helped them learn about
the techniques of ‘dripping’ and ‘over all painting’ but
significantly differ from their usual habits in painting .

# How has your impression toward your partner’s country/region and the world changed?
Changes in the students
Changes in the teachers
Several of our students were already keen on This project came as a continuation to the many
discovering more about Japan . They were thrilled to projects we have launched as a Unesco Associatedbe able to exchange and create with Japanese School over the past 10 years , at the same time asstudents , even though direct face to face we were joining the Asian Europe Foundation
communication was difficult due to time zones .
network through an international meeting in Tokyo in
November 2019 . 4 different projects are now being
started in the wake of these connections with andaround Japan involving about 30 teachers in various
departments.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthMEET
Selfintroduction

SHARE
Research on
the theme

UNITE
Message ofSept.

Oct.
toDec.

Nov.

united thoughts

CREATE
Mural painting

APPRECIATE
Reflection/
Appreciation

Oct.
toDec

Jan.
Feb.

What you did
Your students attitude/reflection
Production and exchange of Our students , aged 16- 17, were active
video presentations
and motivatedprocess

Subject
EnglishResearch and productions inEnglish about beacon people
in the quest for freedom.
Meetings with poets andpainters and synthesis workin English

Integrated
learning
assessment in English

andProduction of the message
after the presentations werediscussed in interactive
lessons in English

Integrated
learning
assessment in English

Initiation to improvisation
techniques with
Hervé
Lesvenan,amusiccomposer. Creation of thefirst basis for the mural inFrance and completion of
the mural after our Japanese
partners work. We have 3layersofcreation
superimposed in the mural.

The group of active students was thenlimited to those of them who chose
Graphic Arts as a major subject. This
group is currently preparing for a public
happening arts and creation event
outside the school.

Arts

Completion and debriefing

The development of the project is still
under process until the public happening
event. The whole process will be ahighlight in their training.

Arts

Englishprocessand
English

# Effect and evaluation gained through the collaborative learning
Evaluation: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected effectEvaluation

Understanding yourown cultures

2

Understanding yourpartner's cultures

4

Information literacy(research, share)

Communication ability(interactive exchange)

Critical thinking(objective, logical views)

Active learningand action
Collaboration(in the class, with partners)

Expression ability(in words, in pictures)This project developed around English lessons where we don’t focus on
our national culture but try to open up to the diversity of our world .
Understanding how images are read differently in both cultures

444555

Appreciation ability(the mural, the wholecollaborative learning)

Scenes / points teachers felt the effects

5

In their research work about freedom students tended to focus on world
famous icons that they were not really discovering. But the meeting withguest artists brought their lot of learning and sharing on the human sideof experience and creation, sometimes deeply emotional as this group ofstudents have already developed their own creative skills and habits .
Very effective between teachers who get on very well ( and I have tothank Mr. Isao Umeda for making it so easy between us ) but moredifficult to set up between students due to time zone and curriculum
constraints in a specific year when students have to prepare for new
national exams .
See ‘information literacy’
The whole project was developed in an Integrated Learning frame , whichmeans the students were active all the time and assessed for what theylearned in the process .
The whole process involved a full class of 33 students who worked on
the project at different stages to produce a collective visual result .
The whole project and the theme we chose were about developing
expression. The world of improvisation is not a comfortable choice for acollective project. But we made it! we all agree on this …
A thrilling experience that will be continued in the form of a public
happening event in April 2020. the professional artists online platform will
be maintained after the project is completed ? This is all very positive.