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All Blog Posts Tagged 'creativity' (6)

Ed Hitchcock Fear of Failure

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

Added by Ed Hitchcock on November 23, 2009 at 11:08am — 3 Comments

Andrew New Fuel for Music Education?

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

Added by Andrew on April 21, 2009 at 8:05am — 3 Comments

Skip Zilla The Necessary Revolution

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

Added by Skip Zilla on February 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Skip Zilla educating people out of their creative capacities

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

Added by Skip Zilla on August 7, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Skip Zilla "little-c" creativity

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

Added by Skip Zilla on August 6, 2008 at 7:10pm — No Comments

Ed Hitchcock Unleash the Inner Child

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

Added by Ed Hitchcock on March 7, 2008 at 11:22am — 5 Comments

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