Category: creativity
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Podcast152: Thrive in 2065: Reinventing Schools for the 21st Century
The world is changing fast, and schools need to change appropriately to prepare learners for successful integration into our 21st century economy and society. This podcast is a recording of a presentation I shared on May 9, 2007 for the Rotary Club in Duncan, Oklahoma. I focused on key themes in recent books by Tom…
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A creativity challenge for your students
Hopefully your state assessments are over, and there is now time for more creativity in the classroom! Consider inviting your students to enter the Tech4Learning artistic postcard contest: Create a postcard from a place you would love to visit on your summer vacation and you could win an iPod or a pizza party! Deadline: Tuesday,…
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Re-creation
One of the most thought provoking videos and professional development learning opportunities I’ve had in the past six months was watching and listening to Dr. Lawrence Lessig at Wizards of OS4 in September 2006 (via podcast) share his “Read/Write Culture” keynote address. These are a few notes I took awhile back about some of the…
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Collaboration in schools: More reasons we need it
Not everyone is going to be lucky enough to work for an innovative and wildly successful (at least in financial terms) company like Google. Despite that fact, Google’s success and the managerial philosophy of its leaders provide worthwhile object lessons to which more people in business as well as education should pay attention. The May…
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Building 21st Century Learners by Kevin Honeycutt
These are my notes from Kevin Honeycutt’s presentation at KSDE2007. Kevin is one of the most creative, enthusiastic, dynamic and inspirational educators I have ever met. I’m recording his presentation for subsequent publication here as a podcast. Check out his website on http://kevinhoneycutt.org. If you are looking for a dynamite conference presenter that has more…
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The Monroe Doctrine: Effective Practices that Create Excellent Schools
My notes from Dr. Lorraine Monroe’s keynote at the KSDE conference on 4-26-2007 in Wichita, Kansas. That is what we are all about in this room: The cultivation of children Never ask me to follow a kids’ act. It is too hard! Good morning, I’ve already run out of time. Thank you for having me…
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Thoughts on educational quality, test scores and the arts
I’m attending and presenting at the KSDE Conference in Wichita, Kansas again today. This morning the opening comments were shared by Dale Dennis, the Interim Commissioner of Education for the state of Kansas. Here are some of my notes from his commentary: Kansas education has never been better. Our graduation rate is around 90%. Our…
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Golf, creativity, failure and learning
The April 2007 issue of “High School Sports Magazine” for Central Oklahoma has an article about Morgan Chambers, the most dominant female high school golfer in the state. I play golf but certainly don’t claim to play the game well: Generally my best golf games are the ones when I’m not keeping score and just…
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CrazyTalk4 and iClone
Does anyone know if there are equivalent programs to CrazyTalk4 and iClone available for Macintosh? These are awesome software programs, and are used extensively by Enid Public Schools to create digital curriculum resources for teachers and students.