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June 21, 2011, 10:52am
John Cleese on creativity
Mar 24, 2011, 4:30pm
Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk
March 23, 2011, 3:20pm
OpenCulture's list of "intelligent video websites.
http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideoMarch 23, 2011, 3:10pm
13 leading digital creators on the future of art
The Future of Art from KS12 on Vimeo.
Feb 18, 2011, 2:00pm
Fujiya and Miyagi: Collarbone
Feb 11, 2011, 10:30am
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Still from Jane McGonigal's talk, click the image for the full talk.
Feb 11, 2011, 10:30am
Jesse Schell: When games invade real life
Feb 11, 2011, 10:30am
Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
May 27, 2010, 9:40pm
The Art Room!
Follow this link to visit the contest submission page and vote for the project!
http://www.myoocreate.com/challenges/the-plastiki-beat-waste-startup-challenge/entries/99
May 10, 2010, 12:53pm
Dj BleakBot "Planet Absurd" by Zac Kenny
Dj BleakBot lives on Planet Absurd. He and his hommies keep their lower jaws up by rapping and slacking off
Apr 21, 2010, 4:10pm
The Love and Respect boardgame
Apr 14, 2010, 11:00pm
TEDxEdmonton - Cameron Herold on Entrepreneurship
Feb 7, 2010, 9:34am
Richard Paul on Critical thinking and creativity.
An active mind is one that is self-conscious, reflective, and reflexive. This is what I strive for in my work, and my teaching.
Critical thinking is �Disciplined, self-directed thinking, which exemplifies the perfections of thinking appropriate to a particular mode or domain of thinking... Thinking that displays mastery of intellectual skills and abilities... The art of thinking about your thinking while you are thinking in order to make your thinking better: more clear, more accurate, or more defensible.� (Paul, 1995 p. 526)
�Critical and creative thought are intimately related. Each without the other is of limited use. Creativity without criticality is mere novelty. Criticality without creativity is bare negativity" (Paul & Elder, p. 21).
Paul, R. ( 1995). Critical thinking: How to prepare students for a rapidly changing world. Rohnert park, CA: Center for Critical thinking and Moral Critique.
Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2004). The thinker's guide to the nature and functions of critical and creative thinking. The Foundation for Critical Thinking.
Feb 7, 2010, 12:00am
David Bohm (1968) on Creativity
Bohm reminds us of the necessity of the willingness to make mistakes, in this case, not just for creativity's sake, but for society at large's.
"There is a kind of simple confusion that tends to arise, whenever we are presented with a complex array of new facts and perceptions. Normally, it takes some time to allow all this to be 'sorted out'. During this time, it is properly one's wholehearted intention to arrive at a clear perception of what has been previously 'mixed up'. However, when the mind is trying to escape the awareness of conflict, there is a very different kind of self-sustaining confusion, in which one's deep intention is really to avoid perceiving the fact, rather than to 'sort it out' and make it clear. Whenever this is happening, we tend to say that the mind is in a state of 'disorder', But in fact, the mind can then be seen to be following a well defined order, that is functionally wrong" ... "The essence of this wrong order is that every time the mind tries to focus on its contradictions, it 'jumps' to something else. It simply won't stay with the point. Either it continues to dart from one thing to another, or to react with violent excitement that limits all attention to some triviality, or to become 'dead', 'dull' or 'anaesthetized', or to project fantasies that cover up all the contradictions, or to do something else that makes one momentarily unaware of the painful state of conflict in which the mind is. This order of self- sustaining confusion tends to spread to other fields, so that eventually the whole of the mind begins to deteriorate." p.146
"This state is not only not creative, but actually it falls far short even of the limited kind of order that is displayed by a good machine." ..."I feel that it is for each of us individually and for society as a whole the most important thing to be done in the circumstances in which humanity now finds itself. And the key is, as I have indicated, to be continually aware of and alert to the basically mechanical reactions that are always causing us to 'go to sleep' again and again." p.147.
Bohm, D. (1968). On creativity. Leonardo, 1(2) 137-149.
Feb 4, 2010, 1:46pm
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity, fulfillment and flow.
I will highlight the section that Dr. Csikszentmihalyi speaks about his matrix of flow,(15:05) which is based on informant research and shows what is needed in a person's activity to experience the flow state, which is the state of being that one feels when they are performing optimally.
Feb 4, 2010, 1:36pm
Nancy De Freitas, presentation at Concordia on qualitative, arts based research.
On February 1st, 2010, Nancy De Freitas gave a presentation at Concordia University (rm 6.725) on qualitative, arts based research.
De Freitas is an artist and academic, she is an associate professor in postgraduate studies at the Aukland University of Technology in New Zealand, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Material Thinking.
De Freitas' presentation outlined her involvement with many practice-led research approaches. She spoke about the importance of understanding the language of research reporting, the theoretical and implied relationships between text and production, and the act of documentation as an integral part of the research process.
notes:
How do we conduct ourselves as creators/researcher such that our practice is enhanced?
Grounded Improvisational, & Heuristic methods are qualitative ways of solving problems for which no formulas exist. Typically use informal approaches � increasingly credible. Rely on practical experience and observation, involve reflective and reflexive processes
Creative intentions are grounded in the material conditions of our practice.
Because creative studio practice almost always has an unknown outcome, a dialogical, collaborative method of interrogating and interpreting the results of creative impulses can be helpful in re-evaluating the work produced through experimentation and exploration.
Two important Rules:
1) Openness of the research person:the researcher should be open to new concepts, be open to changes in the process/ preconceptions of the data if the data are not in agreement with theory.
2) Openness of the research topic: The topic of research is preliminary and may change during the research process. This notion requires exploration.
Use your methodology to discipline your passion, not to deaden it. (Rose, 2001)
Accept and capitalize on your personal circumstances and your individual style.
Jan 26, 2010, 8:43pm
Sugata Mitra on Learning as a self-organizing system and goals for education technology
Jan 26, 2010, 8:41pm
Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and schools