7. I brought one of my works to my
8th grade art teacher.
She was not impressed.
She said “the best artworks
humanity will ever create HAVE
already been made, and the best
we can do is copy the
masterworks.”
8. If I we had Google in 1966, I could
have told her that the man who
founded the Day-Glo® factory was
an art teacher.
10. So here we are in this great
Edmund Catalog feeding frenzy.
We’re no longer merely building
upon the past, we're lucky enough
to build in real time.
We have tools to build our
future, in the present.
11. Twitter x 500 million
collaborate globally w/ students, govs, orgs, authors
summaries • share questions • write poems + haiku
discussions • micro-reviews • daily word games
edit coherent stories based on pre-existing tweets
create group fictional character • curate art shows
students poll students • follow class trips virtually
ideas & quotes from historical figures
ask experts questions • subscribe to #hashtags
responses to books + posts • retweet events • invites
bulletin boards • greeting cards • tests/quizzes
inventories + lists • slogans + chants • tweet chats
12. I wrote a blog post on a passionate
educator who is building gardens
for school kids living in urban food
deserts.
I didn’t invent the wheel; but ended
up ‘tweenterviewing’ him to
underscore how important Twitter
is to his realizing these urgently
needed gardens.
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16. We all are IMPROV masters.
The minute we awake it's improv
time. We've made a hundred
unique, expressive choices all
before we reach for our morning
toothbrush (being sure not to live
our precious lives on autopilot).
17.
18. With so many tools at our
disposal, we become curators.
We’re digital hunter-gatherers.
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24.
25.
26. Even the tools we ‘know’ can be
retooled and stretched.
At a recent tech hackathon, my
team used PowerPoint™ as our tool
of choice. And we won. Don’t be
afraid of pushing the limits of what
you know.
27.
28.
29. 135 million people are
gaming taking tests
for entertainment.
Leveraging this love of
challenges can be
transformative.
30.
31. Make getting
lost part of your
practice as an
educator.
(Take time to take elements
out of context. Share more.)
32. So you can better
help your students
lose their way.
The world can’t wait to see what they’ll find.
We won’t invent the wheel…
33. Look up: hippo rollers
But we certainly haven’t exhausted it’s possibilities.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
2 brothers, whoseinnovations w/ fluorescentpigments still save lives.
…and led to a by-product, Day-Glo temperas……rocked my little small-town Iowan world.
excited about this new media…
newly-completed …to show to my school art teacher. …studied it sternly …enduring an unpleasant psychedelic…chided … declaring “The best artworks humanity ….copy the masterworks". But…in the digital age … might have had a point. When … last come up with a brilliant idea ….Google your way ….variants of it merrily …results page? …in our favor, creatively.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
Now HAD … Google …1968, ….might have reported … company that manufactured …founded.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
…in one vast Edmund Catalog feeding frenzy.1 tool, Twitter. maybe 500 million users… great collective of human expression isn’t merely building upon the past, we're lucky enough to build in real time. We have tools to build our future, in the present.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
at GRACE foundation where I work, I was tasked … named Mud Baron.21c kind of guy,tweeting …nearly speaks …in his zeal for getting gardens to school kids in the worst urban food deserts. How to tell his story? Didn't invent wheel. But a sort of “Twee-interrview” … captured his voice.
To Mud, Twitter ….critical as honey bees and compost to realize… gardens.
To Mud, Twitter ….critical as honey bees and compost to realize… gardens.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
IMPROV.jazz musician…muscle memory makes …a bionic extension of his intent. Or the wall tagger with her can of Krylon.The minute we awake … a hundred unique, expressive toothbrush. Take a sec to make a face in our mirror … not …precious life on autopilot.
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
here because you’re motivated. You know some… all…Or ….missing ones …your practice. Please, tweet them to us all.
Because …much to be done. And a million Edmond Catalogs to inspire students. But …part of your practice … inspire yourself.
Look deeper and deeper. …great aggregated resources & socialspaces: corp, edu, blogs, do-gooders fresh from Kickstarter – all ready to flip your classroom. masterful curation (Harlan simulated court – Harvard's treasure trove of curated resource links) Conferences!…Corporation B
Crop B ….networking groups … hybrid of good will + good business: clicks & unearth tools – a Common Core Standards Finder. You’re the curator.
Share your inspiration!Alltop? what’s happening …topics curated from many thousands of pubs, blogs, news feeds, issues and ideas from . Make:, Ze Frank, John Emerson
…how texting before our morning pee is rewiring our brains, but … risk .. let these remarkable tools … more on autopilot, not less.Tools you know… Pinerest + Learnist …PBSIdea Channel w/ Mike Rugnetta… ongoing curation of TED talks in edu pubs…buzz around BO.LT. Hype? …just might be a good tool to bring working webpages into curriculum. Too soon to tell, but try it AND STRETCH IT. Share more. Get lost more.
stretchusual suspects! the tools you are familiar with. I recently participated in hackithon (Google it!...)– day of 200 brilliant tech, data + marketers – our goal to ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING of that life-& death snooze-fest the US FARM BILL …team I led won. Our cutting edge tech?
In 8th grade …… bottomless well … Edmond Scientific
Powerpoint. So SURPRISE YOURSELF. Push the limits, even of what we think we know.
We’re hunter-gathers!Let your curiosity lead you to unexpected places REGULARLY, methodically.If you already ger lost often, share your treasures more. Or more effectively. If you don’t get lost, do. Make it part of your practice – muscular learning: 10 minutes a couple of times a week… starters.
Gamilfictaion …classroom… society. So many of us grew up terrified of tests!Think of what an opportunity for classroom transformation! to embrace challenge!!
Use gaming! Competitions by corps trying to greenwash, healthwash or edu-wash?But there are good people are in every org – releasing tools and resources, of all scales. Use them.And push their limits!
Make getting lost part of your practice! Use tools in unintended ways!Share even more!
…help students lose their way! The world can’t wait to see what they will surely find.We won’t invent the wheel…
But we certainly haven’t exhausted it’s possibilities.Will Emily Pilloton’s“Hipporollers” get sanitary water to 894 million people in need? NO! Does it make a difference??? Jah.
Even the most modest idea.. 1963. Merging insurance companies & disgruntledemployees …artist hired to create a motivational image. The smiley face… paid $45.Your students constantly demonstrate that we never know how our ideas may have impact. We just need to share and nurture them.
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