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might be useful for older students: Gamestar Mechanic is a game and online community that teaches kids how to design their own games. Designing games builds Systems Thinking, 21st Century Skills, Creative Problem Solving, Art and Aesthetics, Writing and Storytelling, and creates a motivation for STEM learning.

another site like LongReads or The Browser or Arts & Letters Daily -- that curates great articles online

"Take risks. Experiment. Use your intuition. Combining fonts is as much an art as it is a science."

teaching resources for Art.

Ah, modern life. The way we live now is intrinsically tied to increasingly pervasive technology, our relationship to which could be permanently set to "it's complicated." French graphic designer Jean Jullien presented his own playful take on our ever-evolving connection to gadgets, gizmos, and yes, human interaction for Allo?, currently on display at London's Kemistry Gallery.

list of exemplar texts K-12 being recommended by the US Common Core Standards

Some very cool micro photography. Small is beautiful.

This is a really cool set of vintage looking animations on critical thinking... great for TOK

A classy looking stylus & brush for the iPad

"Can a cat be both alive and dead? Can a computer think? How does a tortoise beat Achilles in a race? Voiced by comedian David Mitchell, these fast-paced animations explain six famous thought experiments, from the ancient Greeks to Albert Einstein, that have changed the way we see the world. Subjects as vast as time travel, infinity, quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, are squeezed into 60-second clips that will tickle your funny bone and blow your mind."

My page on the Rebecca Hossack website

Great piece talking about the core of what makes a good infographic (or anything else really)... STORY

Awesome vid about Visual Culture online. Not suitable for kids, but very interesting and funny. Finally I understand where Nyan Cat came from.  Watch to the end to see how to make a meme. Very amusing.

Great video for explaining graphic design

"...importance of "critical design," or "design for debate," which he defines as a way of using design as a medium to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions, and givens about the role products play in everyday life"

"The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings. To explore them click below. "

"Fifty years on from his first novel and it's still unclear whether Alan Garner is in touch with an alternative reality or just the 'dream-maker' he claims. Here, he explains how he died three times and why spending two years in the foetal position is not the best career move"