19 20 21 - 19 cities in the
world with 20 million people in the 21st century (click the "Next"
button on the opening page to cycle through the pages in sequence)
Advancing Inventive Creativity Through Education, a 50-page report
(PDF document) of a
workshop in Lenox, Massachusetts in October 2003, supported by The Lemelson-MIT
program (at the School of Engineering at MIT) and by the National Science
Foundation.
Arts Education Partnership (Richard Deasy
was one of the panelists at Oklahoma's Symposium on Creativity and
Innovation in Education, hosted at University of Central Oklahoma
February 8, 2008.
Arts and Letters Daily -
"philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism,
culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip"
CCAHTE - Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education, an "open
access journal of the creative arts." Also see CCAHTE's blog,
Crossing Borders.
Celebrate Oklahoma's
Voices - "A statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to
become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history
safely on the global stage of the Internet."
Chronicle Multimedia -
The
Chronicle of Higher Education; new installments every other Thursday.
Clinton Global Initiative University -
refer also to an article by President Bill Clinton, "A New Way for Students and
Colleges to Bring About Global Change," in the 2.29.2008 issue of The
Chronicle of Higher Education, page A40. The inaugural meeting of CGIU is in
New Orleans, March 14-16 at Tulane University.
The Creative Spark
- "How are we inspired? Where might our imaginations take us? What does
creativity look like in its wildest form? These clever, invigorating
speakers plumb the wellspring of invention."
Creativity Matters. Statewide initiative in Washington announced Nov. 7, '07
(PDF document, 2 pages).
Design of Knowledge ~
Blog; ideas about 21st-century teaching and training. Blog is archived
to September 2006 and includes a large number of resource links for Ed
News and Ed Tech.
Edutopia: Information and
Inspiration for Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools.
Fast Company - Where ideas
and people meet (requires registration, which is free).
Kauffman Foundation (Judith Cone was
one of the panelists at Oklahoma's Symposium on Creativity and Innovation in
Education, hosted at University of Central Oklahoma February 8, 2008).
Keith Sawyer (one of the keynote speakers at Oklahoma's Symposium on
Creativity and Innovation in Education, hosted at University of Central Oklahoma
February 8, 2008).
Blog - Creativity &
Innovation (See especially his entry 2.15.08 concerning Oklahoma's
"State of Creativity" initiative).
Kluge Center Lectures, Library of Congress - live webcast from
www.loc.gov.
The four-lecture series will examine the
generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part
of their lives, with emphasis on the young people currently in
schools and colleges today. The series will seek to understand the
practices and culture of these digital natives, the cultural
implications of the phenomenon and the implications for education -
schools, universities and libraries.
Hear the series in live webcast at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern) at
www.loc.gov.
April 7, 2008: The Anthropology of Digital Natives - Edith
Ackerman
May 12, 2008: Internet, the Private Mind? - Steven Berlin
Johnson
June 23, 2008: The Anthropology of YouTube - Michael Wesch
June 30, 2008: Screenology - Douglas Rushkoff
Leadership Arts 2008,
sponsored by the Oklahoma Arts Council, "designed to develop a statewide network
of community arts leaders." See their collection of resources, including
"Arts Education Resources," "Oklahoma Arts Agencies," "Fine Arts
Standards," and "Legal Issues in Arts & Education" at
THIS LINK
(CLICK HERE).
Loss of Creativity in Our Schools: Keeping to the Basics, by Meaghan Durance,
Sept. 12, '07. On 2.19.08, the article had been viewed 26,783 times; a parent states her
frustration with her son's public school and its focus in test scores.
Mission to Learn -
"Learning. Technology. Change." Blog by Jeff Cobb.
Music For All (Robert Morrison was
one of the panelists at Oklahoma's Symposium on Creativity and Innovation in
Education, hosted at University of Central Oklahoma February 8, 2008).
Museums and related resources:
Museum 2.0 - blog
that "explores ways that web 2.0 philosophies can be applied in
museum design"
"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is
the essence of life." --Julius Caesar
"There is no box!" --Oklahoma's Lt. Gov., Jari
Askins
"America does not have a free ride in the 21st
century." --Sir Ken Robinson
"If you can change your attitude, you can change
your mind. If you can change your mind, you can change the world." --Sir
Ken Robinson
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get
run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers
"The conventional question to ask of someone's
intelligence is, 'How intelligent are they?' A more accurate question may
be, 'How are they intelligent?'" --Sir Ken Robinson
"Spontaneity sometimes has to be carefully
planned." --Sir Ken Robinson
"Creativity can be as much a process of
finding problems as solving them." --Sir Ken Robinson
"This is the often way with creative
insights. They run ahead of their times and confuse the crowd."
--Sir Ken Robinson
"If the ideas in the music could be
expressed in words, there'd be no need to write the music in the
first place." --Sir Ken Robinson
"We don't have an energy crisis; we have an
imagination crisis." --Kevin Kimberlin (CEO, Spencer Trask)
"Next to knowing when to seize an
opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to
forego an advantage." --Benjamin Disraeli
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he
would probably still be at the dock." --Arthur Goldberg
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill
"If A equals success, then the formula is A
equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth
shut." --Albert Einstein
Sir Ken Robinson (one of the keynote speakers at Oklahoma's Symposium on
Creativity and Innovation in Education, hosted at University of Central Oklahoma
February 8, 2008).
Teaching With
Twitter - video by David Parry, U. of TX, Dallas; see also article by
Jeffrey R. Young, "Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and
Professors Atwitter" in the 2.29.2008 issue of The Chronicle of Higher
Education, page A15. (Twitter Home Page)
TED: Teaching, Entertainment, Design
- The annual TED conference presents a series of lectures from people
who are at the forefront of creativity and innovation. See especially
their section on the theme "The
Creative Spark."
"A Vision of Students Today" - 4 min. 44 sec. video created by Michael Wesch
and students of "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology" at Kansas State
University, Spring 2007.
Young People Who Rock - "a
weekly interview series focused on people under 30 -- from CEOs to
entertainers to athletes to community and political leaders -- who are
doing remarkable things."
