creativity

Ken Robinson 2009

“Our children, every day, come to school and spread their dreams at our feet. We should tread softly.”  Ken Robinson.

15 years ago

The new literacy ladder. What rung are you on?

The world is moving at a tremendous rate. Going no one knows where. We must prepare our children, not for…

15 years ago

Objects of desire

Objectified - a film about the creative process of influential product designers – those people who create the “must have”…

15 years ago

A Children’s Manifesto for Creativity

Question: What do you need to be creative and succeed in the future? Point number one: We want less formality…

16 years ago

A wonderful life

Here’s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Creativity, fulfillment and flow:  

16 years ago

Give Joy a Chance: An 11-Step Program

It's the 21st century. So what happens when we shut children down and disconnect them from wonder, creativity, curiosity and…

16 years ago

Slow Food, Slow School: John Cleese and the Promise of the Tortoise Brain

There's a slow food movement so why not a slow mind movement? Some years ago Guy Claxton wrote Hare Brain,…

16 years ago

Kids Know Things

Solar panels, wind turbines, solid waste fuel, electronic generators and all manner of imaginative and greener ways to power cars,…

16 years ago

How To Be Creative: Look Sideways

Some attributes of creativity: Challenge assumptions Be receptive to new ideas Recognize similarities or differences Make unlikely connections Take risks…

16 years ago

Keep the Connection … Expand the Horizon

Children are natural learners. It's what they do. And the learning is joyful and the thirst for knowledge, understanding and…

16 years ago

Education’s Rock Star: Standing Room Only for Ken Robinson

It was standing room only at Radio City for Sir Ken Robinson's keynote speech at the NAIS annual conference last…

17 years ago

Creativity and Learning How to Learn

“Modern studies indicate that creativity is not a rare, magic gift visited upon the isolated genius; it is the natural…

17 years ago

Season of Mists

“Modern studies indicate that creativity is not a rare, magic gift visited upon the isolated genius; it is the natural…

17 years ago

Tom Peters: Educate for a Creative Society

He's not as funny as Ken Robinson but here is (creative and enterprising) business guru Tom Peters on a rant…

17 years ago

Write a Novel, Change the World: Use your Laptop as a brick

Gary Stager came to Poughkeepsie Day School at the end of March and he began with a lively Vassar College/…

18 years ago