www visiblethinkingpz org The Tug of War Routine

www. visiblethinkingpz. org The Tug of War Routine Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine encourage? 1. Present a fairness dilemma. • Helps students understand the complex forces that "tug" at either side of a fairness dilemma. 2. Identify the factors that "pull" at each side of the dilemma. These are the two sides of the tug of war. • Encourages students to reason carefully about the "pull" of various factors that are relevant to a dilemma of fairness. 3. Ask students to think of "tugs", or reasons why they support a certain side of the dilemma. Ask them to try to think of reasons on the other side of the dilemma as well. • Helps them appreciate the deeper complexity of fairness situations that can appear black and white on the surface. 4. Generate "what if? " questions, issues, factors or concerns that might need to be explored further to resolve the issue. • Shows the dynamic interaction of people's thoughts in a context of a shared inquiry. Documenting thinking and making it visible in the classroom can facilitate this interaction in order to make the inquiry richer.

Plagiarism versus Appropriation Left: Tyler Shields, 2015, Right: Irving Penn, 1986 In this image, it appears that Tyler Shields attempted to appropriate the work of Irving Penn, by making a very similar image. The idea is the same, the crop is the same. However, he did change a few patterns, adjusted colours and made a slightly different image. Does it mean that his work is original? Or is it someone else's work? Tyler Shields never credited Irving Penn for inspiration in creating this photograph.

Left: Tyler Shields, 2015, Right: Henry Leutwyler, 2012

7 Photographs that Changed Fashion by Rankin Fashion photographer Rankin recreates seven of his favourite images as he takes a journey through a brief history of the fashion photograph. By re-staging iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin. He crfedited the original photographers. Does that make it ok?

How Much Post Production editing is acceptable? Left: Image as Captured by the camera, Right: After retouching in Photoshop Is the borderline of what should be allowed. The retoucher removed all skin blemishes from her face and made the skin of the actress look flawlessly smooth, which as we know, is almost never the case. However, facial features do not seem to be drastically altered.

Is this going too far?