HOMEWORK for Thursday, 9/2

Fellow Creative Types,
1) First, take the quiz at the link below and keep track of your results. If you're comfy doing so, post them in the comments section below.
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz

2) Please watch the following short video from a 1997 interview with Howard Gardner, the father of Multiple Intelligence Theory.




3) Read this article catching up with Gardner years later:
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-interview

Come to class prepared to discuss.


Best
~mrc

HOMEWORK Due Tuesday 8/31

Students,

For Tuesday, we're going to dig into the work of Sir Ken Robinson, a British researcher and educator with a particular passion for creativity and human development.  It's good that you have 4 days between classes, because there's a LOT.  Please do the following:

1. Watch the video embedded above.  It comes from the AWESOME site TED.com, and features Sir Ken speaking before an audience at a conference.
   
2. Read the Introduction and First Chapter of Robinson's book, The Element.  This was handed out in-class Thursday
   
3. Come to class having listened to the Podcasts linked to below.*  They were recorded almost 2 years apart for DishyMix, an interview-driven business personality, management and marketing show hosted by Susan Bratton. There are some ads and other fluff in these episodes, but push through them and really listen to Robinson's comments.
   
   DishyMix 006
   http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/232-dishymix/episodes/3066-sir-ken-robinson-creativity-innovation
   
   DishyMix 098
   http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/232-dishymix/episodes/39555-sir-ken-robinson-element-talent
   
4. Lastly, please remember whether or not you volunteered to help lead the discussion for Tuesday.

HOMEWORK due thursday 8/26

Students,

Read this:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

Be prepared to discuss in class.

~mrc

WORDLE: From the Creativity Crisis Article

Creativity_Crisis_Wordle_from_Newsweek_July_2010

Students,

Here's a Wordle I made for us to discuss in class.  It's derived from the Creativity Crisis article in July's Newsweek I posted earlier, and which will you be reading/have read soon.  I LOVE using these as a different way to look at a text or data!

What relationships do the words suggest?

~mrc

COOL: Sharpie OMG!

OhMyGod!

http://blog.sharpie.com/2010/08/introducing-the-new-sharpie-liquid-pencil/

Nice way to advertise, too; Pink would call this "emotionally intelligent signage," which is a term you will come to know well this semester.

~mrc

COOL: Roster InfoGraphic

Thought you folks might like this.

Creativity is perhaps most about making connections.  I used the free web app Wordle to generate an image of the class roster (as of 8/15/10) and I was surprised to see there are NO shared names, at least not yet according to the information I have.  When words (names, in this case) appear multiple times in a body of text (the class roster in this case), the words appear larger.  But here, all your names are scaled evenly.  We'll have to explore other ways in which you all differ, and in which you're similar.

Depending on the text, you can get some dramatic results; for instance, below is a visualization from Wordle of the text of the Declaration of Independence.

Wordle's pretty fun to play around with, and I encourage you to do so.  Indeed, PLAY will be very important to you in the semester ahead.

~mrc