Category: creativity
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More recess, fewer tests, structured activities, and homework please!
Today’s Associated Press article “Give kids more free playtime, docs urge” supports ideas I’ve blogged about before in my posts “Curing Nature Deficit Disorder,” “Increase retention and creativity with recess,” and “Let’s fight for recess.” (Thanks for the link, Devin.) According to the article: The American Academy of Pediatrics says what children really need for…
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Flickr users are artists
According to dictionary.com, an “artist” is: “One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts” and “A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill.” Some people consider everyone using the free photo-sharing…
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The positive side of piracy?
Anyone familiar with the RIAA or the school curriculum on intellectual property they have promoted in schools in recent years might think the title of this blog post is a bit ridiculous. I found the following perspective from China on piracy quite interesting, however, and rather thought provoking: All those Hollywood movies and all those…
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Increase retention and creativity with recess
I am a big advocate for recess, both at school and outside of school. According to Gabrielle deGroot Redford: As we age, our short-term memory of details in the immediate past—what we ate for breakfast, where we put our glasses—decreases. A recent study, however, found that mice who exercised regularly not only learned a new…
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Podcast75: Singing the Praises of Moodle (literally!)
Kent Brooks and Scott Charlson from Western Oklahoma State College in Altus, Oklahoma, composed several fun songs about Moodle last week! John Denver, Dwight Yokum, Johnny Cash, and Martin Dougiamas would or will doubtless be delighted to hear Kent and Scott’s creativity applied to their tunes and software product! Feel free to use these songs…
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Fun with Photo Booth
I’m posting from the Apple Store in Oklahoma City, where I’ve just discovered the wonderful, new, free app Photo Booth. Put in the wrong hands, stuff like this can be quite dangerous! 🙂
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Podguides and virtual field trips
Karen Montgomery introduced me to Podguides today. According to the about podguides page: A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It’s the combination of a map (PDF or JPG) of a certain place with numbered dots on it and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Each numbered dot…
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Intel supports the WRONG vision of 1:1 in schools
The Intel corporation recently announced sub-$400 laptop for students in school– and that laptop may end up supporting the WRONG vision of teaching and learning that our students and society desperately need for the 21st century. According to C-Net’s “Low-cost PCs” article from June: The Classmate PC (left) is an Intel-designed laptop with a 7-inch…
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The U2 record incident, remixing media, and online publishing
Many of the digital natives in our midst want to remix media their world, not merely consume it. They also want to create original media. Check out websites like YouTube, iFilm, Revver, Vimeo, the BBC’s Video Nation, and others if you want evidence. (I’ve incidentally started a new social bookmark category for these sites, which…
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Prospects of infinite bandwidth
I borrowed a copy of George Gilder’s book “TELECOSM: How Infinite Bandwidth will Revolutionize Our World” today, and the following paragraph really captured my imagination and attention on page 4: The ability to communicate– readily, at great distances, in robes of light– is so crucial and coveted that in the Bible it is embodied only…