Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Today's reads

It's been far too long since I've been able to do any professional reading via Twitter.  But with all of my speeches out of the way for the year and all but two themes graded and half of my senior letters done, I have a bit of down time.


Why teachers should join Twitter



Speaking of Twitter, Here is 7 Steps to Grow Professionally using Twitter.

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Why the kid who yelled at his teacher (see the post below this one) was right.  Mashable doesn't really do anything with the story, but they do at least have an interview with the student as to why he stormed out and launched into his diatribe.

And here is a take on this from one of my favorite education bloggers, George Courus.

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This article, Five Ways to Innovate by Cross-Pollinating Ideas, is right out of Steal Like an Artist and Imagine.

This tip for innovating is what teachers do best.  There should be a class on this for every education major.

3. BUILD ON EXISTING IDEAS

Building upon existing ideas and inventions is another way to foster innovation. In fact, when you ask artists of all types where they get their inspiration, they can usually list others before them who set the stage for their work. Painters draw upon the tools, techniques, and approaches of other artists; musicians build upon the styles of other musicians they have heard; writers are influenced by literature they have read; and inventors build upon the creations of others. As Pablo Picasso is claimed to have said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Steve Jobs, the cofounder and former CEO of Apple Computer, amplified this sentiment in a 1994 interview by saying that the key to creativity is to expose yourself “to the best things that humans have done and then to bring those things into what you are doing.” he goes on to say that what made the original Macintosh computer great is that the people working on it were “musicians, and poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians, who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” Apple took inspiration from their knowledge of these diverse fields to create something that was completely novel.

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I love this one - What is Flat Learning?


FLAT from Julie Lindsay

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I love this one.  And how awesome would it be to use this as an example of what infographs could be used for in the English classroom.



What kind of infographs could our students come up with for To Kill a Mockingbird, A Separate Peace, Heart of Darkness, Night, Pride and Prejudice, or Huck Finn?

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106 creative works of street art

I could look at this stuff all day.  Enjoy.

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