Category: creativity
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Creativity requires a willingness to make mistakes and be wrong
Sir Ken Robinson and Garr Reynolds are on the same page with a basic premise regarding creativity. photo credit: praram On page 15 of his book, “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, Sir Ken writes: What I loved about this [story] was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren’t…
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Plan to attend PodStock May 1-2, 2009 in Wichita, Kansas!
Check your calendar for Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, 2009. If at all possible, please plan to join the learning and fun at the first PodStock conference to be held in Wichita, Kansas. According to the PodStock website: Podstock is a brand new conference designed to bring podcast creators and those who see…
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Why We Need Pi
Today is Pi Day! To celebrate as well as have some creative fun, my kids and I participated in the second round of the “Film on the Fly” mobile phone video challenge sponsored by the Orange County, California PBS television affiliate KOCE-TV. The story prompt was sent by text message and email to participants this…
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Podcast305: Science Education from a Technology Leader’s Perspective by Dr. David Thornburg
This podcast is a recording of Dr. David Thorburg’s presentation “Science Education from a Technology Leader’s Perspective” at the 2009 CoSN Conference on March 11, 2009. The official conference program description of this session was: K-12 education science, technology, engineering and mathematics is a hot topic today, with conversations spanning from the classroom to the…
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Science Education from a Technology Leader’s Perspective by David Thornburg
These are my notes from David Thornburg‘s presentation “Science Education from a Technology Leader’s Perspective” at the CoSN 2009 conference in Austin, Texas. He shared this presentation on 11 March 2009. Isn’t it amazing we’ve gone from looking for cool ballpoint pens at conferences from looking for 1 GB pen drives Now 3M has a…
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Free image editing options and student voices on edtech
I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today: Free image editing options Student Voices about technology and creating the future Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.” …and… “No Future Left Behind.” Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first…
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Podcast304: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated (learning@school09 keynote)
This podcast is an audio recording of my keynote address on February 27, 2009, in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the Learning@School 2009 Conference. I also included some reflections I recorded on stage just prior to the keynote. The official conference presentation description of this session was: Personalised, differentiated learning defines exemplary education in the 21st…
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Creativity and Netbooks
As you can probably tell from my recent posts, I’ve got netbooks as well as creativity on my mind quite a bit these days. I shared two new posts this evening on ISTEconnects: Creativity in our schools A netbook for every student? I used both the quotations I shared from Christensen, Horn & Johnson as…
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Doodle 4 Google: Dream, Design, Win
Google is looking for some creative student designers in their “Doodle 4 Google” contest: Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we’re inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around…
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Discussing the importance of good questions and inquiry with Kiwi primary teachers, YouTube karaoke
These are my notes from the unconference time at Learning@School 09 Different models are suggested for inquiry units. These are stages or steps for one model discussed by a teacher at our table: immersion (provocation, exploration phase, building relevance) questioning plan gather and sort create and share take action At one school, they are doing…