This document discusses reimagining spaces for blended and online learning. It envisions cafés, studios, and stages that promote collaboration, creativity, informal learning through networks and connections, and teacher roles as curators and amplifiers rather than just instructors. Radical transparency through open sharing on social media and blogs could supplant standardized assessments. The goal is to establish students as nodes in distributed networks of creativity.
This document provides ideas and prompts to foster creativity and creative thinking. Some of the key ideas discussed include:
- Creativity involves connecting ideas in new ways, combining disparate elements, and looking to unexpected sources for inspiration.
- Activities like analog games, remixing, constrained writing prompts, and collaborative idea generation can help develop an "artist mindset."
- Cultivating creativity requires taking risks, embracing failure, and maintaining a beginner's mindset. It also benefits from having dedicated creative space and time for open-ended exploration.
- Fostering creativity in learning involves balancing direct instruction with opportunities for student-driven inquiry, production and reflection. The document provides many specific activity ideas
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
This document discusses new literacies in the digital age. It emphasizes cultivating open communities, remix culture, social media for education, and radical transparency. It highlights the importance of choice, voice, and purpose in learning. It also discusses shifting from print to digital literacy and the rise of participatory culture through collaboration and democratization. Key skills for the future include sense-making, social intelligence, novel thinking, and understanding data. New forms of literacy involve watching, sharing, commenting, creating and curating across various platforms. Teachers' roles are shifting from experts delivering information to co-learners, coaches and curators who amplify student voice.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 MinikeynoteAmy Burvall
Note that this is the abridged version (15 minutes) presented at BLC15; I have an hour version with almost 100 more hand-drawn slides.
While everyone is both a work of art and an artist, not
everyone thinks like one. What can the ways in which
famous artists lived their lives,as well as their creative processes, teach us? In this 15 minute keynote presented at Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2015, Amy
Burvall shares poignant takeaways from the lives of
Da Vinci and Michelangelo, the Impressionists, Toulouse-
Lautrec, Picasso, and Warhol.
Through anecdotes, quotes, and metaphorical imagery,
these apologues serve as digestible life lessons educators and leaders can embrace in their own
intellectual and creative lives and share with students.
This document discusses reimagining spaces for blended and online learning. It envisions cafés, studios, and stages that promote collaboration, creativity, informal learning through networks and connections, and teacher roles as curators and amplifiers rather than just instructors. Radical transparency through open sharing on social media and blogs could supplant standardized assessments. The goal is to establish students as nodes in distributed networks of creativity.
This document provides ideas and prompts to foster creativity and creative thinking. Some of the key ideas discussed include:
- Creativity involves connecting ideas in new ways, combining disparate elements, and looking to unexpected sources for inspiration.
- Activities like analog games, remixing, constrained writing prompts, and collaborative idea generation can help develop an "artist mindset."
- Cultivating creativity requires taking risks, embracing failure, and maintaining a beginner's mindset. It also benefits from having dedicated creative space and time for open-ended exploration.
- Fostering creativity in learning involves balancing direct instruction with opportunities for student-driven inquiry, production and reflection. The document provides many specific activity ideas
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
This document discusses new literacies in the digital age. It emphasizes cultivating open communities, remix culture, social media for education, and radical transparency. It highlights the importance of choice, voice, and purpose in learning. It also discusses shifting from print to digital literacy and the rise of participatory culture through collaboration and democratization. Key skills for the future include sense-making, social intelligence, novel thinking, and understanding data. New forms of literacy involve watching, sharing, commenting, creating and curating across various platforms. Teachers' roles are shifting from experts delivering information to co-learners, coaches and curators who amplify student voice.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 MinikeynoteAmy Burvall
Note that this is the abridged version (15 minutes) presented at BLC15; I have an hour version with almost 100 more hand-drawn slides.
While everyone is both a work of art and an artist, not
everyone thinks like one. What can the ways in which
famous artists lived their lives,as well as their creative processes, teach us? In this 15 minute keynote presented at Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2015, Amy
Burvall shares poignant takeaways from the lives of
Da Vinci and Michelangelo, the Impressionists, Toulouse-
Lautrec, Picasso, and Warhol.
Through anecdotes, quotes, and metaphorical imagery,
these apologues serve as digestible life lessons educators and leaders can embrace in their own
intellectual and creative lives and share with students.
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
1) The document discusses exploring visual literacy and thinking through a workshop on drawing, sketchnoting, photography, and other visual arts.
2) It promotes developing visual vocabularies and using metaphorical and symbolic thinking to express complex ideas visually. Various apps and techniques for visual creation are presented.
3) The workshop encourages participants to think visually and see opportunities for visual expression, problem solving, and communication in all areas of life and learning.
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
In this workshop we explored the essence of creativity and how to cultivate a creative creative climate in the classroom. We explored low barrier entry ways to get students thinking and working more creatively on a daily basis, using both digital and analog tools and strategies.
***please note the videos embedded are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
This document discusses the power of hashtags and tags for organizing information on the internet and in education. It provides many examples of how tags can be used to connect content, drive online conversations, amplify work, organize assignments, practice languages, crowdsource stories and poems, and build relationships between students. Tags allow for new forms of expression, classification, commentary, and connection when affixed to digital and analog media.
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
This document appears to be notes from a storytelling workshop or class. It includes prompts for participates to share stories about themselves, engage in listening exercises, and create art using Oreo cookies to depict something they learned. The document emphasizes finding one's voice, understanding other perspectives through listening, and using creativity to make positive contributions.
Visual Thinking Across the Curriculum: Whistler Conference 2017Amy Burvall
This document provides an overview of visual thinking strategies and techniques that can be used across curriculums. It discusses concepts like metaphorical thinking, data visualization, sketchnoting, photography challenges, and using apps to remix and draw over existing images. The goal is to illustrate how incorporating visual elements can enhance learning and thinking in various subjects.
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
#GetsmART Lessons from Artists #ipadpalooza16Amy Burvall
The document provides lessons and advice from great artists throughout history. It encourages being curious, collaborative, and pushing boundaries. Key lessons include leveraging the tools and techniques of your time, getting feedback from others, continually learning and reinventing yourself, and using your skills to leave a positive legacy. The overall message is that artists can inspire new ways of thinking by staying curious, taking risks, and making their work publicly visible.
Mad for Metaphor: Sketching Complexity Amy Burvall
This document discusses using metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex ideas. It provides tips for finding visual metaphors in everyday objects and experiences. Examples are given of reinterpreting artwork, creating visual dictionaries, and playing visualization games with partners to spark creative and metaphorical thinking. The goal is to nurture skills in distilling concepts into simple visual or iconic representations.
Building Learning Communities: Make du Jour- Fostering Creativity for Persona...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA, July 2014.
* please note the videos will not play in Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
I conducted a workshop on the Japanese art of "unuseless inventions" - known as Chindogu. We had a great time, and stay tuned for the blog post and some really cool Chindogus. Meanwhile, here's the deck from my workshop.
Have fun!
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
1) The document discusses exploring visual literacy and thinking through a workshop on drawing, sketchnoting, photography, and other visual arts.
2) It promotes developing visual vocabularies and using metaphorical and symbolic thinking to express complex ideas visually. Various apps and techniques for visual creation are presented.
3) The workshop encourages participants to think visually and see opportunities for visual expression, problem solving, and communication in all areas of life and learning.
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
In this workshop we explored the essence of creativity and how to cultivate a creative creative climate in the classroom. We explored low barrier entry ways to get students thinking and working more creatively on a daily basis, using both digital and analog tools and strategies.
***please note the videos embedded are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
This document discusses the power of hashtags and tags for organizing information on the internet and in education. It provides many examples of how tags can be used to connect content, drive online conversations, amplify work, organize assignments, practice languages, crowdsource stories and poems, and build relationships between students. Tags allow for new forms of expression, classification, commentary, and connection when affixed to digital and analog media.
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
This document appears to be notes from a storytelling workshop or class. It includes prompts for participates to share stories about themselves, engage in listening exercises, and create art using Oreo cookies to depict something they learned. The document emphasizes finding one's voice, understanding other perspectives through listening, and using creativity to make positive contributions.
Visual Thinking Across the Curriculum: Whistler Conference 2017Amy Burvall
This document provides an overview of visual thinking strategies and techniques that can be used across curriculums. It discusses concepts like metaphorical thinking, data visualization, sketchnoting, photography challenges, and using apps to remix and draw over existing images. The goal is to illustrate how incorporating visual elements can enhance learning and thinking in various subjects.
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
#GetsmART Lessons from Artists #ipadpalooza16Amy Burvall
The document provides lessons and advice from great artists throughout history. It encourages being curious, collaborative, and pushing boundaries. Key lessons include leveraging the tools and techniques of your time, getting feedback from others, continually learning and reinventing yourself, and using your skills to leave a positive legacy. The overall message is that artists can inspire new ways of thinking by staying curious, taking risks, and making their work publicly visible.
Mad for Metaphor: Sketching Complexity Amy Burvall
This document discusses using metaphorical and visual thinking to express complex ideas. It provides tips for finding visual metaphors in everyday objects and experiences. Examples are given of reinterpreting artwork, creating visual dictionaries, and playing visualization games with partners to spark creative and metaphorical thinking. The goal is to nurture skills in distilling concepts into simple visual or iconic representations.
Building Learning Communities: Make du Jour- Fostering Creativity for Persona...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA, July 2014.
* please note the videos will not play in Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
I conducted a workshop on the Japanese art of "unuseless inventions" - known as Chindogu. We had a great time, and stay tuned for the blog post and some really cool Chindogus. Meanwhile, here's the deck from my workshop.
Have fun!
Thinking about giving a talk about something you love? Possibly at Skepticamp? No? Why not? Here are some reassurances, planning tips, and dos and do-nots to get you up there sharing your expertise with the world.
Make your everyday teaching a masterpiece altamiraedu
This document provides guidance and inspiration for teachers to make each day and their teaching a "masterpiece." It encourages teachers to visualize their teaching as a work of art and focus on making a positive impact each day. Teachers are reminded that each present moment is a gift and that focusing on continuous growth and improvement will allow them to help students reach their potential. The document celebrates the creative power teachers possess to design rich and meaningful learning experiences for their students.
Crushing It with Creativity- The Virtual Summit EU keynoteAmy Burvall
Crushing It with Creativity outlines some of the beliefs set forth in the "Creativity Credo" from my book, "Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom". It then offers a plethora of ideas for creative thinking in the classroom and beyond
The document discusses Niggle's syndrome, which refers to getting overly focused on details at the expense of the overall design or vision. It examines this concept through the lens of a J.R.R. Tolkien story about a painter named Niggle and in the context of software product design. It also references the painting techniques of Antonio Lopez and how he evolved his visions over decades by continuously learning and integrating change. The key lessons are that product design requires finding the right level of abstraction and balance of details, and that visions must be allowed to evolve in response to learning rather than being pre-defined in a way that prevents growth.
This document provides a summary of Melissa Mudd's portfolio from 2010, including examples of her creative writing experiments and art projects from an institute course. It contains 3 short pieces of creative writing focused on imagery from her surroundings. The document also describes 2 seedling projects - booklace necklaces combining images and text, and a painting with embedded headlines exploring hope. Graphic narrative storyboards and a self-portrait triptych investigating roles and identities are presented as additional examples of works started in the course.
"Rivulet" is the latest in the alcohol ink drip playing series started in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This slideshow has visuals using various materials, many acquired during a recent vacation. Here is hoping to a return to an improved normal. There is still winter first.
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All I needed to know about Social Media, I learned from Girl Scout Cookies! [excerpt from a Social Media training by @imagirlscout - note that licensed Girl Scout fonts will not appear correctly]
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity with Choice and VoiceAmy Burvall
This document discusses fostering creativity through providing choice, voice, and opportunities for self-directed learning. It emphasizes breaking boundaries and moving beyond reiteration by listening to what inspires you and creating with others. Various strategies are presented for nurturing creativity, such as maintaining low barriers of entry for creative works, remixing and repurposing existing content, collaborative creation, and showcasing student work.
This document provides advice from students on how to lead an effective class discussion or presentation about a work of art. Some key points include asking open-ended questions that have multiple answers, listening to students' responses and building on their ideas, playing devil's advocate to encourage debate, and avoiding forcing your own opinions to allow a free-flowing conversation. Final tips recommend varying who responds to keep all students engaged throughout the discussion.
The document provides advice for presenting a piece of artwork and leading a discussion with an audience. It recommends starting with open-ended questions that can be answered in multiple ways based on personal perspectives. Examples of open-ended questions are given that ask the audience to describe what they see in the artwork or how people in the artwork are interacting. Close-ended questions that can be answered with a yes or no are less conducive to discussion. The document also suggests listening to audience responses and using their names to validate their opinions and turn their questions back on them to further the discussion.
In this workshop, participants will learn improvisation games, joke structure, and comedy sketch development. On the final day, everyone will perform in a live comedy show for their peers. Participants will explore improvisation, sketch, and character comedy while developing confidence and life skills like public speaking, performance, creative thinking, and self-belief.
The document discusses creativity from several perspectives:
1. It provides definitions of creativity from various sources, describing it as the human capacity to produce new ideas or inventions that have social or cultural value.
2. It outlines some common misconceptions about creativity, such as the ideas that only geniuses can be creative or that creativity comes from a mysterious place.
3. It discusses attributes of creative thinkers, noting they often tolerate ambiguity, are nonconformists, intrinsically motivated, and prefer complexity.
The Creative Career (Girls Unlimited April 2015 Keynote)Cheryl Platz
Redmond's Girls Unlimited program hosts annual workshops focusing on career options for young women in the area. In 2015, I was invited to return for my second Girls Unlimited keynote talk, this time focusing on my career in the arts - both in interaction design and in acting. The talk ends with a number of calls to action that are applicable to any beginning artistic career.
Why art is important and how tiger and tim learning videos help foster creati...Tiger Tim
The document discusses the importance of art in children's development. It notes that art helps develop motor skills, language and communication skills, critical thinking skills, and social-emotional skills. It provides tips for fostering creativity at home, such as embracing messes, being an encouraging audience rather than directing children's art, and talking about art. Educational videos like Tiger and Tim can also inspire children's art and appreciation of art.
The document discusses strategies for promoting creativity in engineering and science fields. It provides quotes from innovators emphasizing the importance of creativity. It also lists traits of creative thinkers, thinking tools to overcome blocks, and ways organizations can support creativity through programs, rewards, and dedicated spaces. The overall message is that creativity can be learned and cultivated through intentional practices.
This is the first part of a three part presentation given in Los Cabos, Mexico for UNOi. In it, I draw parallels between the life, creative processes and work of Leonardo Da Vinci and that of project-based learning, maker culture, and inquiry. At the beginning some analogies are made between mobile learning and the Impressionist art movement.
Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. A remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy.
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This document discusses the key elements of punk culture including music, style, attitude and do-it-yourself mentality. It encourages expressing real feelings through passion for things that matter like music and finding your tribe. The message is to follow your passion and come alive through punk values of nonconformity and doing it yourself.
This document discusses the power of remixing, mashing up, and recontextualizing content in the classroom. It provides examples of remixing works through changing genres, combining parts of different works, using found or appropriated content in new ways, and reinterpreting works through different forms of media or technology. The document advocates moving students beyond simply reiterating or regurgitating original content and instead encouraging transformative, nonlinear reinterpretations of source works.
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Mozilla’s Doug Belshaw says that the “heart” of “digital literacies” is the Remix. Kirby Ferguson eloquently encouraged us in his TED talk to “Embrace the Remix”, because, as his enlightening documentary series reminds us, “everything is a remix”. Newspaper blackout artist and award-winning author Austin Kleon’s advice to budding creatives is to “Steal Like an Artist”, because “you are a mashup of what you let into your life”. Our students are engrossed in remix culture - they are the appropriation and recontextualization generation. Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and, frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. Most importantly a remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy. This session is part pedagogical/philosophical and part participatory. Attendees will leave with a “goodie-bag” of resources and ideas in the form of an ever-growing G+ community to organize resources and serve as a space for sharing participant work and continuing the conversation long after the conference has ended.
The slide show offers a glimpse into the history of remix in the art world and its significance in our present media landscape. We’ll explore how different techniques of remix and mashup lend themselves to collaborative creativity and differentiation in the classroom. We’ll also look into the distinctions between “remix” and “rip-off” and discuss the ways in which to help work become transformative rather than mere copies. There will be some discussion of copyright reform, fair use, and creative commons as well. Philosophically we’ll look at the work of William Burroughs, Grandmaster Flash, and Andy Warhol as well as the more recent efforts of writer Austin Kleon, media theorist Henry Jenkins, MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergartener Mitch Resnick, documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, and the online course DS106.
We’ll explore how social media in particular inspires recontextualization and re-imagining. And, in an era of ever-abbreviated communication, we’ll look at various ways to essentialize and synthesize into more minimalist, visual interpretations.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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