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"GREENE: And John, you wrote an introduction to this issue of Granta, and you said that literature asserts that the world, as it is imagined, is every bit as important as the world as it exists. Is that really the case? FREEMAN: Yeah, because if we only agreed with what the world is, there would never be the future. The world, as it will be, is partly imagined, and it's part entropy. And if we believe that we can have some sense of control of our destinies - whether it's how we educate children or how we write our own stories - part of that has to do with the imagining, and novels help us imagine more beautifully, I think, than almost any other art form. "

" The right to be teachers In an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn. Students can participate and shape one another's learning through peer interaction, new content, enhancement of learning materials and by forming virtual and real-world networks. Students have the right to engaged participation in the construction of their own learning. Students are makers, doers, thinkers, contributors, not just passive recipients of someone else's lecture notes or methods. They are critical contributors to their disciplines, fields, and to the larger enterprise of education."

discussion of the value of novels as a tool of imagination

"On Monday, the American Library Association its list of the "most-challenged books," that is, books that have received the highest number of "formal, written complaint[s] filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness." Dav Piley's Captain Underpants tops the list, and is joined by books like Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Toni Morrison's Beloved and E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey."

Point that time to focus on what's important to us and make those connections which is the heart of creativity. Reminiscent of Pink's aptitude of meaning

Fireworks and more in city of Da Nang, Vietnam

From War to the Beatles to the Zen of Steve Jobs and a host of classics represented graphically, it was a great year for graphic novels!

Chad is one of the most creative teachers I know. Call it "test prep" or "test-taking skills," test-takers have to learn the culture of testing. They just don't have to live there.

Pink speaks of powerful ideas like how to teach problem-finding, how to create individual pathways to learning, how to put students in the drivers' seats so they learn what drives them, how they can be successful in learning and how assessing themselves can help.

First American woman recognized as a philosopher and her work on the life of the mind and the role of symbolism

"Can the notion of pedagogy be unhooked from the discourse of schooling and returned to something more like its Greek origins?"

Love this idea of proudly sharing your Reading Life. Will pitch the ideas of shelves (like Shelfari) for Mock Printz Club and that will work for any place without lockers.

The power of first person narrative

""Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know - to understand how life works" (hooks, "

Creating Mutual Empathy and creating written portraits of people around Oxford who describe themselves and their philosophy of life in they own words -- guide to the unknown university

finding your passion early in life!

Not a bad idea to invest in a "domain of one's own" and set up your WordPress blog with one of these cool themes. Choose a domain you'd like (check to make sure not taken on the Web not just WordPress. Consider buying the domain if it's something you'd like to won to use in your own .org blog.

The beauty of science not so unexpected!

Incredible portraits of fascinating animals -- up close and personal

Write about what you know??? More discussion on what the ability/propriety of someone writing from the perspective of a different race.