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Life=Risk (Thanks to TCR for the tip)

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Watch below or (click here)

What can creativity do? A promo film for the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.

“Who Own The Learning?” Excerpted from keynoter Alan November’s presentation during the Governor’s Education Summit, hosted by Michigan Foundation for Education Leadership (MFEL) and the Education Alliance of Michigan (EAM), March 3, 2008, in Lansing MI. Alan November is an internationally recognized leader in education technology.

…and a sampling of a workshop that Alan November gave to Harvey School parents that outlined three (3) key skills that parents and educators need to teach students for success in today’s world.

IDEO’s Ten Tips For Creating a 21st–Century Classroom Experience

In recent years, IDEO has spent a lot of time and effort thinking about education. The firm’s work with Ormondale Elementary School, in Portola Valley, California, helped pioneer a special “investigative-learning” curriculum that inspires students to be seekers of knowledge. We spoke to Sandy Speicher, who heads the Design for Learning efforts at IDEO. Her insights provide powerful lessons for architects and designers creating the schools of tomorrow: Full article here.

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas? (link here)

If you are interested in, teach the visual arts or have any resources and lessons you would be willing to share, check out my art wiki. This wiki is a project that is by no means complete and will continue to build and further expand. Hopefully faster with your help. Have a look at the Art Inspired wiki.

Larry Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer and Stanford professor, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture. Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition. Watch below or (click here)

Digital students @ Analogue Schools. What do you think about this one?

Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. Watch below or (click here)

In this skillful lecture, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions by using them himself. He emphasizes how to start a lecture, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” that strengthen the intended concept, and asking questions. He also talks about using the blackboard, overhead projections, props, and “how to stop.” Click here.

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote.

Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making “slide presentations” in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why — though we want to know more about the world than ever — the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. Watch below or (click here)

Ursus Wehrli shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art — by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size. View here on TED or watch Part 1 and 2 below. (Humorous).

Listen to John Cleese discuss creativity and the creative process.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Nominated as Most Creative Video (2007 YouTube Awards)
For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm

Dove Evolution – What’s beauty? What are digital arts? Here the two are combined. Great for social studies.