Advancing technology means machines will soon be able to produce creative work. We look at the trends which are leading us towards Artificial Creativity.
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To Innovate We Must be Willing to Learn a Lot!
In ProVoke, I talk about the necessity to be uncomfortable before we are ready to disrupt and innovate. We need to be uncomfortable because pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone is hard work and is unsettling.
Read More »The Future Belongs to the Curious
From the moment we open our eyes it fuels our existence. We are on a mission to remind everyone to never lose your sense of curiosity or wonder. Long live learning!
Read More »10 Emerging Educational Technologies & How They Are Being Used Across the Globe
For over a decade, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale. The NMC’s advisory board includes 750 technology experts and faculty members from colleges and universities in 40 countries, and is supported by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The NMC’s latest research efforts were released this spring...
Read More »13 Little Known Historical Events that Made Education What it is Today
This will be the first in a series of posts I will offer attempting to assess the contemporary status of education and possibilities for its future development. In order to lay a foundation for the project I will consider some important, but generally unknown, causes for the contemporary shape education takes in society.
Read More »BEST OF TED: The Key to Success? Grit
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success.
Read More »25 Ways to Institute Passion-Based Learning in the Classroom
“When students are motivated to learn, they naturally acquire the skills they need to get the work done.” Sir Ken Robinson Common sense tells us that students are more likely to learn if they are motivated by and engaged with the curriculum or project at hand. Now, hard science is…
Read More »Take Another Look Around
Learning to learn in a changing world.
Read More »Whitney Johnson on Mother's Day
For most of my life, I have believed that learning to wield power and control situations could be best done in the workplace. I have learned many valuable lessons about wielding power well throughout my career on Wall Street. But these pale compared to what I have learned about power at home.
Read More »Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Why It’s A Good Idea
Education must move with the times. What can be done to reach a technology-savvy generation that relies on media every free second of their time? BYOD-Bring Your Own Device, a trend that is catching on quickly. Bring Your Own Device has transformed the classroom by creating new opportunities for learning.
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