All Blog Posts Tagged 'creativity' (6)

We have all seen people - not just our students or children, but friends and colleagues as well - who are afraid of failure. As Sir Ken Robinson points out, this fear of failure is tied to (but not the esclusive domain of) the crushing of creativity by structured education in schools. I have certainly noticed an increase in this perfectionist attitude in students, but there is one small, seemingly insignificant indicator that really has me worried. Lately, my students have been leaving answers b… Continue

Just finished Howard Gardner's 5 Minds For The Future. Strikes me that Music (Education) involves 3/5ths of the minds for the future. Maybe a new advocacy argument? Continue

Just got to a book last night which has been on my "anti-library" shelf for several months--Peter Senge's The Necessary Revolution (2008)--which I highly recommend. Here's an article from Business Week's "Innovation" section which reviewed the book last summer and spurred me to acquire a copy of it. The following paragraphs from the book's first chapter, "A Future Awaiting Our Choices," provid… Continue

(Same good music and notions as the previously posted video, and even the script is more listenable!) Continue

(Like the music track and the basic notions, but the screechy, preachy, sophomoric script is a real turnoff .) Continue

Who doesn’t love kindergarten. Crafts, colouring, and learning new things makes for an enjoyable time, what’s not to love? Now, replace “kindergarten” with “glycolysis”, and you have a conversation killer. The process of cellular respiration - glycolysis, the Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation - has been glazing eyes of stunned Biology students for decades. And yet, if approached carefully, it is quite straightforward - thare is just a lot of pieces to the… Continue