Well, there IS someone working this week! My thanks to Rik in the U.K. for sharing this Holiday E-Card from across the pond.
http://www1.city.ac.uk/law/seasonsgreetings/
If more are shared…I will post them here in the spirit of the holidays…until my time is done.
Darren
December 28th, 2007
Watch this great TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson about how education drains creativity out of students. There are great ideas about a new concept of intelligence: an interactive intelligence that should really inform us as to how we design a total user experience for our campus communities. It is our job as educators (Robinson argues and I agree) to provide a space and time for the creative capacity of the student to flourish.
This video posted by a student from MICA demonstrates what I mean by the total user experience and creative capacity It also demonstrates how simple and childlike this pursuit can be. (Also check this post for a discussion of neoteny.) Note that Selina finds both the online experience of stars and the lack of stargazing at MICA inadequate. These are the only two aspects of her experience that we can in any way influence. What she does next is what we should always strive to provide: she creates her own stars, and recreates that experience via YouTube for the world to see. This is Selina’s creative capacity flourishing.
August 24th, 2007
