Ken Robinson on Creativity and Education
A thought provoking and entertaining talk from Ken Robinson at TED 2006.
"My contention now is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy.
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June 16, 2007
June 09, 2007
Poolside
Amory enjoying himself during break at the pool.
Another response to recent anti-Edtech articles
There's a good editorial in THE Journal responding to the various anti-educational technology articles around recently.
June 08, 2007
Positive Article on Laptops in Schools
Here's a nice article about laptop use at Del Mar middle school in Tiburon, CA (the bay area).
Del Mar English teacher Julie Jeffrey said the devices have changed her teaching methods."I'm not lecturing at them anymore," Jeffrey said, as her students worked on reports about discrimination and the civil rights movement. "This kind of assignment becomes fun for them; they're finding their own information, building it as they go along, instead of having me read it to them."
It's nice to see a more balanced piece after some of the negative stories published about laptop use lately. As you might guess, I'm in favor of it.
June 02, 2007
Zeum Visit
I visited the Zeum in San Francisco today, which was neat. There are some neat exhibits set up there, and they have a few computer labs where kids can make animations and play with various software programs. In the gift shop I cam across some neat solid shape magnets produced by NuOp, I think we'll give away a set at NECC.
ProtoZone makes some of the software on display there, including some neat programs for making collages and kaleidoscopes. They also have some neat web based 3D toys up on their website, my favorite being the Wave Maker.