We need ugly art — here’s why | MJ Chiao | TEDxUBC

When I first teach students how to write, the first thing that I ask them to do is I ask them, "What can you remember? What can you remember about your childhood home? About what you did in class today, what you did with your parents that day, what you ate for breakfast." If we read a story, what do you remember happening in that story. I had a class of kindergarteners and grade 1's and we read a fairy tale together that was separated into seven parts and for each student I assigned a single part of the fai ...