Stump The Teacher: Innovation Day 2011 - 1 views
The New Digital Citizens - 0 views
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Five Card Flickr.” Each drive contains a folder with five photographs downloaded from the photo-sharing website’s royalty-free photo bank. The students pop in the thumb drives and open the folders, and the images blossom on their screens: a pair of dice, a pale and lanky teenage boy, a flower, a parrot, drums, a toddler wearing huge glasses, a tropical island. In pairs, the students get to work, arranging the images in various sequences to tell a story in the form of a play.
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“I just want them to think of themselves as creators,” Vail says. “And I didn’t want them writing just another paper. I want them to use technology to actualize their ideas. To dramatize their creativity.”
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images to use as the cover page of their adaptations—like a playbill for a Broadway show
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10 Ways to Teach Innovation | MindShift - 1 views
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education should focus on fostering innovation by putting curiosity, critical thinking, deep understanding, the rules and tools of inquiry, and creative brainstorming at the center of the curriculum.
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there are a number of ways that teachers can bypass the system and offer students the tools and experiences that spur an innovative mindset.
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Make skills as important as knowledge
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Lifelong Kindergarten - Mitch Resnik - 0 views
THE GAP by Ira Glass on Vimeo - 2 views
Moving at the Speed of Creativity | iPad App Smashing with Google Forms, Haiku Deck, Ex... - 0 views
American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED - 1 views
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Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.
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Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
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Americans need to learn how to discover.
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The Library Voice: Hour Of Code from Code.org Is Right Around The Corner....Sign Up & C... - 1 views
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