Growing genius through artfulness
I read a wonderful article on the weekend, an interview with Lily Serna, the delightful mathematician from the SBS (Australia) show Letters & Numbers. What I loved about the article was Lily’s reference to the creativity in mathematics. The interviewer states she is not really a numbers person, to which Lily responds… ”I don’t think [...]
The Keynote speaker at the 2012 Digital Media & Learning conference was John Seely Brown, self procliamed “chief of confusion” and author of many books, most recently “A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change” one that I am soon to eagerly devour. I was interested to read an interview [...]
I strongly recommend a visit to JohnPost.us a wonderful site with some excellent ideas and resources from an elementary school art teacher. What I love is that he shows students artwork and gives a brief outline about the lesson and how it was produced. There are loads of ideas there that you can use in your [...]
The cockles of my heart were warmed this week when I read a great article in the Melbourne Weekly Eastern Magazine about the lovely 21 year old Elizabeth Bowtell who recently completed a diploma of design technology at RMIT. It was the second paragraph that made my heart sing… The Balwyn resident’s interest in design [...]
So dear readers, my quest to validate creative thinking has lead me to an excellent article by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. on the Psychology Today blog (back in May 2010) “Want Children to “Pay Attention”? Make Their Brains Curious!” Funny that our current education system is based on rote learning and force feeding…exactly what Plato, [...]
Earlier in the year I was alerted to an article that made my interest radar beep – the headline “10 Lessons the Arts Teach” … Oh yes, I jumped for joy as I hurriedly clicked through. This summary was prepared by Kim Hermanson, Ph.D.,San Rafael Arts Education Examiner and shared on m-examiner.com If I had [...]
