In 1976 the Financial Review offered Nicholson a job doing daily cartoons and six months later The Age in Melbourne recruited him. Nicholson worked at The Age for the next seventeen years.
10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
Great teachers know that learning doesn't stop as soon as you graduate from college. Teachers learn from their experience, from their colleagues, from their students, and any number of other resources. If you are a teacher looking for ways to expand your knowledge base, here are 100 free lectures you can watch to help facilitate some of that learning.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
In the project's first position paper, "Developing Minds and Digital Media: Habits of Mind
in the YouTube Era" (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/eBookstore/PDFs/GoodWork51.pdf),
authors Margaret Weigel and Katie Heikinnen have synthesized the leading theories of
cognitive development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Erikson), education and media studies
(Turkle, Papert, Jenkins), and empirical findings about young people's digital media.
His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.