creativity
The Compass Point – Time to Re-Wire, Time to Re-Name
Those ever-attentive to such details may have noticed that this blog has a new title. Sort of. I started this…
Does Dance matter? Forward thinking and inspirational? Or misguided and simplistic?
Found this comic rendering of Ken Robinson's ode to dance on the Internets. The words are from his 2006 TED talk…
My PDS Challenge: Those 10 Ten Most Important Skills and How They Are Learned
Disruptive changes to business models will have a profound impact on the employment landscape over the coming years. Many of…
Creativity in the Classroom: The Commodore Amiga and PDS
It's the 30th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga computer. This is apparently the machine that introduced a whole new world…
Why PDS? A Lower School Parent Writes …
If you're thinking about Loving Learning and what all that emerging, integrated and experiential curriculum looks like in the real…
How to be Creative
How to be Creative David Kelley: How to Build your Creative Confidence
Creatives v. The Rest Of Us
I like the work of the RSA very much and enjoy their articles, posts and animations. But their continued use of…
Lock-step learning is not (learning)
Award winning social studies teacher Ron Maggiano is leaving his job. And this is why: Our classrooms have become intellectual…
“Not where the light is”: Schools and Creativity
There's a really useful article in Education Week that reviews, summarizes and connects the basic thinking and research out there…
A Modern Village School: Christmas 1944
Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From…
The 21st Century Learner
This video from the MacArthur Foundation shows a variety of key and influential people discussing some of the new possibilities…
Box? What box? Breaking the mind-forged manacles.
Probably the only two responses to constant change are to ignore it (shrink back, retrench, go off the grid, become…
Change and the Rear View Mirror
A home decorating project revealed this message from the former owner underneath the kitchen wallpaper. I quite liked the pattern…
Connections: How good ideas happen to good minds
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…
Baby, bathwater, freshwater
Joe Bower teaches in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. And he is on a personal mission. His blog For the Love…