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| When will we see video simulations of deep sea diving? Oh, yeah... |
Review sites like David's are examples of the intense passion that some teenagers have toward video simulations. Why not include virtual worlds in your classroom?
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Use video reviews by students... Encourage your students to write reviews, too.
Review sites like David's are examples of the intense passion that some teenagers have toward video simulations. Why not include virtual worlds in your classroom?
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Links for creativity...
Here are some links for you to visit
1) 3 things for visitors to do
2) go to Facebook page
3) Go to our YouTube page
4) Download posters
5) List of advisors
6) Download free ebooks
7) Meet the founders
www.TinyURL.com/xydfounders
www.TinyURL.com/xydfounders
Go ahead, click and spread the information....
Friday, November 20, 2015
Four places to start to look for Practices that Foster Creativity in Schools... from Ken Robinson's Creative Schools
From Chapter 1 of Dr Robinson's book Creative Schools
Dr. Laurie's formula
1. make sure the kids get to school
2. make them feel safe
3. let the students feel valued as individuals ("What we do matters" board)
4. make the curriculum relevant to the kids
(in chapter 1 of the book)
pages 148
Big Picture Learning is mentioned
"connect schools with the world around them."
page 112
"You made me feel like I was somebody."
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page 84
1. Let students follow their interests
2. adapt the school work to the speed
TIME IS A VARIABLE (according to Dr. Fischler)
3. Assess students in way sth support their personal progress
page 240
Consumers
Intelligent consumers
producers
I've seen this expressed as "1% are creators, 9% make comments and 90% lurk online...and we want our studnets to create"
Other reviews of Dr. Robinson's book
Link to Good Reads review
Link to Dr. Robinson's Time Magazine article about SHOP CLASS
(1) Visit Dr. Robinson's youtube videos
(2) Visit the TED Talks (let's go for a billion views. 35 views in 9 years, so let's hit 100 milllion by 2017
(3) Visit the RSA for "Revolution" by Sir Ken
(4) See
Practices that Foster Creativity: Remember Socrates... (1) keep asking questions (says Peter Cookson....) -- and (2) Let learning take place outside of schools
Peter W. Cookson Jr.
When technology pairs up with Socratic inquiry, students have an opportunity to start a purposeful conversation—with the world.
My greatest fear about 21st century education is that Socrates' humility will be turned on its head. The noted philosopher once said, "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." My fear is that instead of knowing nothing except the fact of our own ignorance, we will know everything except the fact of our own ignorance. Google has given us the world at our fingertips, but speed and ubiquity are not the same as actually knowing something.
Think of learning as a continuum of cognitive and expressive experiences that range from gathering data for the purpose of understanding the world; to organizing data into useful and coherent informational patterns; to applying information to real questions and problems and, in the process, creating knowledge; to developing wisdom that offers the hope of transcendent unity. As our minds travel along this learning continuum, our understanding and depth of awareness grow, reshape themselves, and continue to evolve. At the same time, the great unexpected disrupters—imagination, spontaneity, and revelation—enable us to see the world differently and change it.
Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate. We need to approach the contemporary knowledge explosion and the technologies propelling this new enlightenment in just that manner. Otherwise, the great knowledge and communication tsunami of the 21st century may drown us in a sea of trivia instead of lifting us up on a rising tide of possibility and promise.
In short, what is the Practice that fosters creativity?
we learn best by
asking essential questions and
testing tentative answers against reason and fact
in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate.
What Would Socrates Do?
At the beginning of the 20th century, the world's population was 1.6 billion; at the beginning of the 21st century, it is roughly 6.6 billion. To meet the education needs of this rising tide of humanity, we must think outside the box of conventional schooling.
To start, we must overhaul and redesign the current school system. We face this great transition with both hands tied behind our collective backs if we continue to pour money, time, and effort into an outdated system of education. Mass education belongs in the era of massive armies, massive industrial complexes, and massive attempts at social control. We have lost much talent since the 19th century by enforcing stifling education routines in the name of efficiency. Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth.
If we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking. Socrates did not teach in a conventional classroom; his classroom was wherever he and his students found themselves. His was the first "personal learning network," and he taught with the most enduring teaching tool of all time—the purposeful conversation. He called himself a citizen of the world because the questions he asked were universal.
Even though Socrates was a philosopher, he did not hide in an ivory tower. He used knowledge to challenge the status quo. I think Socrates would embrace the new learning era with all the energy he had. We need that same embrace today to move beyond the false dichotomies and empty arguments of our tired education disagreements and to joyously engage with the future.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Book Report: Creative Schools by Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
Ken Robinson has a TED talk, given in 2006, that has 35 million views on TED and another 14 million on several YouTube channels.
Robinson with Lou Aronica has compiled a list of procedures used in Creative Schools.
See a list of procedures from Creative Schools
Here are some key quotes to inspire you (and to guide the work of XYD Foundation):
The various approaches to personalized learning are often grouped togethjer under the general banner of "progressive education," which some critics seem to imagine is the polar opposite of "traditional education." ... Effective education is always a balance between rigor and freedom, tradition and innovation, the individual and the group, theory and practice, the inner world and the outer world."
...The task is to help schools and students find equilibrium. There is no utopia for education, just a constant striving to create the best conditions for real people in real communities in a constantly changing world.
Robinson calls for
Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but they the scale of their impact. ... Many of the principles and practice that I'm advocating have been practices successfully, though in limited ways throughout the history of education. What is new?
First, it is urgent to apply these practices on a mass scale.
Second, we now have technologies that make it possible to personalize education in new ways.
Third, there is a growing feeling in many parts of the world that a tectonic shift in how we think about and practice education is essential.
Clearly, supporters of XYD Foundation will see that the mission of XYD (to foster creativity in schools) supports the revolution that Dr. Robinson is describing.
We need to apply these practices on across many more schools.
We can now use more technologies to personalize programs.
We need to make education relevant (so that students feel that they are part of the school and that school is a place to grow and discover their capacities and build those capacities).
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Robinson with Lou Aronica has compiled a list of procedures used in Creative Schools.
See a list of procedures from Creative Schools
Here are some key quotes to inspire you (and to guide the work of XYD Foundation):
The various approaches to personalized learning are often grouped togethjer under the general banner of "progressive education," which some critics seem to imagine is the polar opposite of "traditional education." ... Effective education is always a balance between rigor and freedom, tradition and innovation, the individual and the group, theory and practice, the inner world and the outer world."
...The task is to help schools and students find equilibrium. There is no utopia for education, just a constant striving to create the best conditions for real people in real communities in a constantly changing world.
Robinson calls for
Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but they the scale of their impact. ... Many of the principles and practice that I'm advocating have been practices successfully, though in limited ways throughout the history of education. What is new?
First, it is urgent to apply these practices on a mass scale.
Second, we now have technologies that make it possible to personalize education in new ways.
Third, there is a growing feeling in many parts of the world that a tectonic shift in how we think about and practice education is essential.
Clearly, supporters of XYD Foundation will see that the mission of XYD (to foster creativity in schools) supports the revolution that Dr. Robinson is describing.
We need to apply these practices on across many more schools.
We can now use more technologies to personalize programs.
We need to make education relevant (so that students feel that they are part of the school and that school is a place to grow and discover their capacities and build those capacities).
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The reviews that appear here have been written by advisors to the XYD Foundation. You are encouraged to join us in recommending books that highlight procedures to foster creativity.
On pages 243-245 in his book, Creative Schools, Ken Robinson describes some of the important ways to "foster a climate of creativity."
[__] Find out what people have to offer
[__] Listen to the stories they tell
[__] Find out their unique capacities
[__] Grow the capacities from there
[__] Help everyone involved in the system understand that they have innate capacities to be creative.
[__] Take the temperature of your organization's capacity to learn.
What are people's views on learning, leadership and creativity?
What do people believe about leadership?
What are the characteristics and behaviors of a leader?
Does the organization foster informal leadership and personal creativity?
[__] Build on the strengths of the people in your orgnaizaiton. Capture the ideas that emerge. This collaborative model needs to include employees (even janitors).
[__] Put in place practices that demonstrate that you are listening to their ideas.
[__] The conversation needs to be long-term and continuous. A culture of storytelling and listening is crucial.
[__] Break down the barriers within your organization and bring in people from the outside. Engage them in dialogue. Visit them.
(from page 245 of Creative Schools)
How can you start?
1. Download the lists of videos to review from the XYD Foundation
2. Invite others to read the lists.
3. Put up posters in your organization.
These procedures apply to schools, but all organizations can become "learning organizations."
XYD's List of Posters to foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Procedures and Practices to foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Videos that foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Free Ebooks that foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Mobile Phone Apps that foster Creativity <<<
You are invited to send your suggestions for additional book reports.
The Mission of XYD Foundation click here to learn more
https://sites.google.com/site/xydfoundation/
The reviews that appear here have been written by advisors to the XYD Foundation. You are encouraged to join us in recommending books that highlight procedures to foster creativity.
On pages 243-245 in his book, Creative Schools, Ken Robinson describes some of the important ways to "foster a climate of creativity."
[__] Find out what people have to offer
[__] Listen to the stories they tell
[__] Find out their unique capacities
[__] Grow the capacities from there
[__] Help everyone involved in the system understand that they have innate capacities to be creative.
[__] Take the temperature of your organization's capacity to learn.
What are people's views on learning, leadership and creativity?
What do people believe about leadership?
What are the characteristics and behaviors of a leader?
Does the organization foster informal leadership and personal creativity?
[__] Build on the strengths of the people in your orgnaizaiton. Capture the ideas that emerge. This collaborative model needs to include employees (even janitors).
[__] Put in place practices that demonstrate that you are listening to their ideas.
[__] The conversation needs to be long-term and continuous. A culture of storytelling and listening is crucial.
[__] Break down the barriers within your organization and bring in people from the outside. Engage them in dialogue. Visit them.
(from page 245 of Creative Schools)
How can you start?
1. Download the lists of videos to review from the XYD Foundation
2. Invite others to read the lists.
3. Put up posters in your organization.
These procedures apply to schools, but all organizations can become "learning organizations."
XYD's List of Posters to foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Procedures and Practices to foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Videos that foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Free Ebooks that foster Creativity <<<
XYD's List of Mobile Phone Apps that foster Creativity <<<
You are invited to send your suggestions for additional book reports.
The Mission of XYD Foundation click here to learn more
https://sites.google.com/site/xydfoundation/
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