How Creativity Works: Animated video - Wow!

IMAGINE: How Creativity Works from Flash Rosenberg on Vimeo.

Thanks to Language Teaching Professionals for pointing this out!

Ode to #Pencilchat by MiddleLevelEd

Ode to #Pencilchat: Technology Integration in the Classroom
by: MiddleLevelEd

In honor of Twitter's #pencilchat, I put together some of the more memorable tweets to create this video. I plan to use it for upcoming professional development workshops about technology integration in the classroom. It's a light-hearted look at the spectrum of where we sit regarding technology in the classroom and meeting our students' needs. Enjoy! (Xtranormal, MiddleLevelEd, 2011.12.07)

Skill sets, passion, and imagination – "liberalizing education"

What the snippets below from "an extended abstract written for the TP eNewlsetter by ... Robert A. Scott" (TP Msg. #1064 The Modern American University: A Love Story) indicate is a niche if not a nexus or  need for "liberating ... [and] liberalizing education" (extended abstract, ¶¶ 19-20) in modern universities.

There is considerable evidence that many employers want graduates with particular skills such as accounting, but the vast majority of employers want employees with a broad set of skills, and abilities, more emphasis on effective oral and written communication, critical thinking and reasoning in multiple settings, and the ability to be imaginative across cultural boundaries.

At the same time, increasing numbers of students say they want to develop a “meaningful philosophy of life,” not just be “well-off financially.” They want to pursue with passion a path that leads to personal satisfaction and fulfillment as well as material comfort. In other words, they want a course of study that combines what employers want and what they want. 

(extended abstract, ¶¶ 10-11)

It seems to me, without yet having laid eyes on the actual story by Scott, that a short answer to the question, "Are we there yet?" might be for some students, sometimes, somewhat.

References

Scott, Robert A. (2010). The modern American university: a love story. On the Horizon 18(4), 294 - 307. doi:10.1108/10748121011082608