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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline – NYTimes.com
““The reality is that to survive in a fast-changing world you need to be creative,””
HT @MeghanCureton & Helen Wills
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everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.
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real genius, of course, is in the how.
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“I am an absolute evangelist about the value of failure as part of creativity,”
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Because academics run from failure, Mr. Keywell says, universities are “way too often shapers of formulaic minds,” and encourage students to repeat and internalize fail-safe ideas.
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The End of Work is Where Creatives Begin – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat
“There’s a new kind of trickle-down effect, and it starts with innovation occurring in spheres of creative enterprise and drips into mainstream culture”
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By the time the mainstream has picked up a good idea, creatives have moved onto the next.
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Today there’s a renewed focus on the “meaningfulness” of our work, which means a shift away from money as the sole motivating factor to do our jobs.
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The desire to offer, and excel at, a particular skill set is characteristically human.
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we all want to be at the peak of our abilities while also having the opportunity to apply them in collaborative ways.
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heightened preference for developing niche specialities and functional networks between them
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“The Difference Between Knowledge and Experience” @boadams1 #goodread http://t.co/HTUJUWjdmJ
Looked at the images & knew this would be a winner! MT @treyboden Difference Between Knowledge & Experience @boadams1 http://t.co/fbaEPBzxi0 -
Are Your Students Engaged? Don’t Be So Sure | MindShift
” better understand student engagement, challenge the myths around it, and make it a higher priority”
[HT @cliffordshelley]
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‘Teacherpreneurs’ vie for ed-tech startup funds in ‘Shark Tank’ scene – CNN.com
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Empathic Innovation – The Hub Magazine – Jan/Feb 2014 digital edition
Empathic Innovation
Just for fun – Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention
As I watched Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention, I felt fairly overwhelmed with joy and wonder… and fun.
Over several years, I have somewhat trained myself to ask certain questions as I observe, too:
- Where would this “fit” in traditional education?
- How would learners be provided space and time to pursue work/play like this?
- What about this is consistent/inconsistent with how we have organized and concepted traditional schooling?
- What might we learn from this that could spur us to enhance learner experience in formalized school?
- What if “school” were more like this?
#JustSomeSaturdayMorningMindPlay
#WhatYouDoinForFrontalLobeFun?
McKenna Pope made a dent.
McKenna Pope made a dent – when she was 13 years old.
I wonder if she was given any transcript-like credit for a social studies course, or for a persuasive communications “project” in an English class. Or maybe for statistics.
#RealWorldEd
How do you win? 3. Overcommunicate Clarity
Inspired by recent study of Andy Stanley and Patrick Lencioni I want to help my team “win” this semester. In order to win, we need a target. Stanley and Lencioni agree on some common principles:
1. Build a Cohesive Team who is committed to the win.
2. Create Clarity. What have we come here to do?
3. Over-Communicate Clarity. Why are we doing it?
4. Reinforce clarity. How do we do it here?
Let me say it again. In another way, perhaps that will resonate better with you.
We are moving beyond school as we knew it before. We will not mandate one reading or math program but we will inspire curiosity-drivern, creative competence-building, gritty, learner-centered programming. You will not hear me define us by a textbook publisher or a single pedagogical practice. You will hear me say we are researching the brains of 0-18 year olds. We are…
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#MustRead Shares (weekly)
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Napkin Academy | Learn to solve any problem with a simple picture
Take the “Back of the Napkin” lessons for visual communication. Everyone is, and can be, an artist.
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The Importance of Free Play for Learning | MindShift
“We can’t teach creativity, but we can drive it out of people through schooling that centers not on children’s own questions but on questions dictated by an imposed curriculum that operates as if all questions have one right answer and everyone must learn the same things.”
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America’s Tiniest Engineers: Report from Greenville, South Carolina – James Fallows – The Atlantic
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Meaning markers and routes to success | Experiments in Learning by Doing
Are our classes merely preparing student learners for what’s next, or are our classes engaging learners with what’s fun, amazing, and relevant to do now? This IS their real life!