Sir Ken Robinson and TED: Creativity in Education and Drawing God
Michael Gallagher Sir Ken Robinson in this video is speaking about education and how it squanders creativity. The most convincing sequence, in my opinion, is when he speaks about the future and…
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Flight Patterns as Teaching Tools: Visualizations painting a conceptual picture
I am a sort of educational parasite. There, I said it. I do not feel remorse or shame or anything of the sort about this. In fact, I revel in…
Memory, Loss, and Learning
It has been a few months (5) since my Uncle Larry has passed away and rather than reflect on the loss itself, I decided it would be worthwhile to recreate…
British Library Learning Resources: Interactive Timelines and Tools for Teachers
I follow the British Library on Twitter and through an RSS feed for their press releases as I do for quite a few other library groups with innovative directions (Columbia…
Hamlet as (e)learner 2: Bad dreams and play
I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. –Hamlet Vincent Van Gogh bounded within his…
Warburton, object-centric and user-centric learning
Warburton refers to online social spaces as often being either object-centric spaces or ego-centric spaces. Object-centric spaces have at the core of their focus the object itself; several examples of…
The Digital Media and Learning Initiative entitled The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media Part 2
Last night, Rahim and I went to The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media, an event hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, The Woodrow…