In this follow-up to his famed 2006 TED Talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity?, Sir Ken Robinson calls for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents . . . → Read More: Sir Ken Robinson Calls for a Learning Revolution
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Let’s get summer going here at ATGI with ten new Web sightings: The New Museum‘s mission is to promote New Art and New Ideas. Their Global Classroom (G:Class) website provides online educational resources for high school teachers and showcases artwork and writing by high school students. While WebTools4u2use is intended for K-12 school library media specialists to . . . → Read More: Web Sightings for June I had the pleasure Tuesday afternoon of hearing Sir Ken Robinson talk on the topic of “How Creativity Can Be Fostered in Higher Education” at a luncheon on the University of Florida’s campus. Robinson was brought to our campus as part of an initiative called “The Creative Campus” being promoted by UF’s Center for the Arts . . . → Read More: Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity in Education |
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Art Advocacy
While poking around the Web this week, I came across the following items that provide strong support for the arts in schools and thought they were worth sharing here:
In a 2006 TED Conference Speech, Sir Ken Robinson, author of “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative,” makes an appealing case for the arts as a . . . → Read More: Art Advocacy