Collaborative Collage Video
COLLAGE WITH ME
Here’s a thoughtful collaborative collage video from YouTube that would work beautifully in a classroom setting:
Why I picked this video:
A true collaborative process: The video, titled COLLAGE WITH ME! no. 28 for the Collaborative Collage, explicitly walks through creating a collaborative collage, not just a solo project.
Real-time creative thinking: Viewers can witness decision-making, layering, and composition unfold, offering a window into how multiple voices and ideas can come together in one unified piece.
Visual and procedural clarity: The video provides strong visual cues and narration, making it readily adaptable for classroom demonstration across age groups.
How to use it in the classroom (with Grade 10 Social Studies + Common Core in mind):
1. Introduction & Context (5–10 min)
Introduce the concept:
What does it mean to co-construct meaning?
How do multiple perspectives shape a single narrative?
Show the video, asking students to note how creative choices emerge from interactions, both with materials and imagined collaborators.
2. Framing the Learning Task
Project theme: Have students create a classroom-wide digital or physical collage that explores themes such as power, privilege, belief systems, and ways of knowing, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives.
Provocation prompt:
How do our personal and collective beliefs shape what we choose to include or leave out?
How might we intentionally create space for Indigenous ways of knowing in our collage?
3. Collaborative Process (30–40 min)
Group arrangement: Students work in small groups within a larger class collage. You can organize concentration on different sub-themes.
Roles and steps (inspired by the video):
Material Gatherers: Research and contribute symbols, images, quotes, or maps that reflect Indigenous perspectives and other cultural viewpoints.
Designers: Propose layout and visual connections between elements.
Editors/Refiners: Ensure coherence, respectful representation, and critical reflection.
Encourage use of a shared digital workspace (e.g., Google Slides or a shared Padlet board) or a physical large mural/canvas.
Students comment on each other’s choices, asking:
Whose voices are most visible?
Whose perspectives might be missing?
What assumptions or biases are being expressed in these visual choices?
4. Reflection & Debrief (15–20 min)
Group share-out: Each group or section presents their added elements and addresses the guiding questions around inclusion, bias, and representation.
Whole-class discussion: Use prompts like:
How did you negotiate whose voice was centered?
What power dynamics surfaced in your decisions to include or omit cultural symbols?
How did you engage respectfully with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ways of knowing?
5. Standards Alignment (Common Core)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2: Write informative/explanatory texts, students articulate the rationale behind visual elements and the inclusion of diverse perspectives.
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Engage effectively in collaborative discussions, students actively listen, build on ideas, question assumptions, and challenge biases.
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Integrate multiple sources of information, they integrate cultural texts, visuals, and historical understandings into their collage.
Connecting to deeper themes:
This activity is not just about cut-and-paste, it's a collaborative interrogation of what we know, what we privilege, and how we validate different ways of understanding. By requiring students to visually and verbally justify their choices, the project becomes a powerful medium to:
Critically examine biases both personal and systemic.
Address power and privilege, by questioning whose story is centered and how we balance multiple worldviews.
Honor Indigenous epistemologies by consciously making space for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives as valid and enriching ways of knowing.
Summary Table
Step Activity
Video Viewing Watch COLLAGE WITH ME! for collaborative process inspiration
Group Work Design a shared-class collage with culturally inclusive elements, Roles & Dialogue Material gatherers, designers, editors comment on biases and inclusivity
Reflection Present and reflect:
What voices are present?
What might still be missing?
Standards Met Writing, discussion, source integration
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