Art and media educator

I teach art, art history, media studies, and design, and I treat my classrooms as places to work out what new media environments mean for the oldest questions in teaching: how young people learn to look closely, read carefully, and make deliberately. Attention, in my classes, is a craft to be practiced rather than a resource to be demanded. In my art history course, essays give way to auction catalogue entries, pitch packages, and journal submissions; in the studio, projects begin with a written intention and end in front of an audience. Students write differently when the reader is someone other than the teacher.

The same instincts make me a builder and a researcher. When a lesson needs an instrument that does not exist, I write it myself, and the results are collected at classroomtools.io: small pieces of software for annotating a text together, arranging images into constellations, and seeing where a class looks first. Teaching After the Feed, an action-research project run inside my own classroom, asks what algorithmic culture changes about all of this.

Teaching

Research

Software

The software page has the full list and the source repositories.

Contact

Most of this work is public, and I like hearing from teachers working on similar problems. Write any time: dogan.arslanoglu@gmail.com.