Publish at January 18 2016 Updated January 26 2023
Meeting an author or artist is a rare enough privilege for a class. Time is limited and the exchange is often limited to a few prepared questions. The cultural class allows students to go beyond a simple meeting, and work with artists.
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The Cultural Classroom uses shared digital spaces in which writers are "hosted in residence." Five authors each work with a dozen classes aged 10 to 15. They propose a project, provide instructions and access to resources. The artist and the students participate in the creation of a work together.
This collective work begins with the artist.
This collective work begins with a meeting. The exchanges on the platform then take over. At the end of the experience, the classes and the writer meet again for a presentation of the creations.
This collective work begins with a meeting.
On the occasion of the awarding of the les interconnectés Christophe Monnet detailed this ten-year-old device to Christophe Batier. The simple and humorous presentation is available by following this link.
Achievements progress live on the platform. And Cultural Classroom allows us to access and view the proposals of the groups and the writer. We invite you to check out three current projects.
Joy Sorman is a writer. She responded to the invitation of the cultural class where she took over from Maylis de Kerangal and Leonora Miano.
For her collaborative writing action with the classes, she wrote the first chapter of a short story. But the young readers could only access the last lines... Each class continues, making only the end of the chapter visible. For the next chapter, another class takes over, using the same method. By January 16, the classes are working on chapter 4. At the same time, the authors complete an index card with the information needed to ensure consistency in the overall work.
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Luc Tartar is a playwright. He wrote a dialogue that he proposed to the students in the classes he accompanies. The young playwrights complete and write scenes. But their contributions are not limited to playwriting. For example, one group created a portrait around objects that gradually appear on screen, as Jeunet did in Amélie Poulain. Another produced an anagram, a third a Chinese portrait... Their creation can be seen at http://theatre.laclasse.com.
Luc Tartar frequently exchanges on the forums with the groups. He encourages, he shows interest in the achievements. By consulting the thread of the very regular communications between the author and the classes, one perceives how a link is created, despite or rather with the distance.
The ergonomics of the shared spaces makes progress visible, and encourages discovering the work, as well as sharing and exchanging.
Céline Cadieu-Dumont suggests that the classes she works with write a story. She organizes a rigorous progression. She sets the period in which the action takes place: the 14-18 war. The students choose the geographical space in which the characters will evolve, and they collect documentation which they share. Then Céline Cadieu-Dumont asks them to present their characters. The students often show themselves to be creative, like this group from the Genas middle school who uses the detour of an epistolary exchange to familiarize us with the protagonists of their story.
As of January 16, 2016, the work is still in progress. Classes will soon be asked to submit a pre-storyboard. A graphic designer will create a visual per class from their selected texts and images. At the same time, students are encouraged to visit the departmental archives, and learn about their local history.
Illustrations: Frédéric Duriez
References:
The Interconnected 2015: Christophe Monnet Golden Trophy: https://youtu.be/LOE1sj_radg?list=PLzpxiXJV7sgR1Bz-Y_Zc9xlutl4QlhqLJ
Digital Workspace of the Rhone and Lyon Metropole Colleges
http://www.laclasse.com/pls/public/!page.laclasse
Use the "educational actions" menu to access the actions mentioned in this article.
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