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Teaching creativity and creative thinking
"creativity isn't a specific activity; it's a quality of things we do. You can be creative in anything -- in math, science, engineering, philosophy -- as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance." - Sir Ken Ro… -
Future of education
Last week a conference called Hacking Education re-imagined how education should look in the modern Web 2.0 world. The #HackEdu Twitter Conversations lens has a lot of interesting snippets of discussion from the conferen… -
Localyte
I think I live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Izmir, Turkey. The climate is great, the people are warm and friendly and there is a real richness to the history and culture here. If you enjoy traveling,… -
Reliability of textbooks
I stumbled upon this interesting experience of a scientist involved in selecting school text books. Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings: 'Judging Books by Their Covers'In 1964 the eminent physicist Richard Feynm… -
One Laptop Per Child - New Design
The OLPC project recently revealed a new design proposed to be released in 2010 and with the economies of scale costing only $75. The original laptop designed for every child ending up costing $180 instead of the $100 in… -
18 minutes with an agile mind
I wish my teachers had been as cool as Clifford Stoll. This TED talk is full of life and passion for learning and sharing what you have learnt. TED | Talks | Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind (video) -
Predictions
It is amazing how accurate Nicholas Negroponte's predictions are in this old but recently posted TED talk. The mulitpoint touchscreen, the new kind of book and computers in education are here and developing all the time.… -
Too creative?
Sir Ken Robinson's website now has an "under construction" message. Perhaps the new design was too creative. Perhaps the visitors to the website were not creative enough to find their way around. Many fields are are all… -
Curiousity
Seth's Blog: Curious In the middle of this short film, Seth says a curious thing about curiousity not being rewarded in education. I expect the same is true of many workplaces, where curiousity and innovation is smoth… -
Teaching Creativity
TEDTalks star Sir Ken Robinson launched his new website today. Of special interest is the Resources section, where he links to all the education and arts projects he's been working on around the world. It's an inspiring …
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Teaching creativity and creative thinking
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Future of education
Last week a conference called Hacking Education re...
