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Apps to Make iPhone Shutterbugs Smile - NYTimes.com about 1 hour ago
The New Writing Pedagogy on 2009-11-25
Etherpad The story of the development of writing on 2009-11-25
Study: Inc. 500 CEOs Aggressively Use Social Media for Business on 2009-11-25
Are you a `meformer' or an `informer' on Twitter? - Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com on 2009-11-25
PRINCIPAL VOICES ~ Ken Robinson ~ White Paper on 2009-11-24
- Many companies say it's getting harder to find these people. One of the major reasons is education. All over the world, formal education systematically suppresses creative thinking and flexibility.
- All over the world, formal education systematically suppresses creative thinking and flexibility. National strategies to raise standards in education are making matters worse because they're rooted in an old model of economic development and a narrow view of intelligence. For economic, cultural and political reasons, creativity should be promoted systematically at all levels of education, alongside literacy and numeracy.
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- - Most national systems of education weren't designed to promote creativity: their purpose was conformity.
  - In the next 30 years, more people worldwide will gain academic qualifications than since the beginning of history. As a result, the currency value of academic qualifications is tumbling. A college degree is no longer a passport to a job, at best it's a visa. The minimum requirement for many professional jobs is now a Master's degree, even a PhD. What next? Nobel prizes? The value of academic skills is also declining. Companies now face an unusual crisis in graduate recruitment. It's not that there aren't enough graduates to go around, it's that too many of them can't communicate, work in teams or think creatively.
    Will Richardson on 2009-05-23
    
    I hear this all the time, the idea that kids are losing the ability to communicate clearly. How much of that is the schools' responsibility and how much is it parents? How much of it is just a change in the way that we communicate?
  - In the next 30 years, more people worldwide will gain academic qualifications than since the beginning of history. As a result, the currency value of academic qualifications is tumbling. A college degree is no longer a passport to a job, at best it's a visa.
  - Creativity is possible in all areas of our lives and essential in every aspect of business.
  - Creativity is the process of having original ideas: innovation is putting them into practice. Creativity is a function of intelligence, and human intelligence is complex and dynamic.
  - Creativity is the process of having original ideas: innovation is putting them into practice.
  - Real creativity comes from finding your medium, from being in your element.
    Will Richardson on 2009-05-23
    
    Right...in finding your passion. This is absolutely true. But how then do we best help our kids find their passions?
  - The challenges of reforming education are profound and need long-term, collective action. The stakes are high and the need is urgent.
  - We are living in times of revolution. This revolution is comparable to the Industrial Revolution and it has still hardly begun. Young people leaving school in 2005 may be retiring in 2050. They're likely to change occupations several times. Many will have jobs that haven't been invented yet, in businesses we can't imagine. The changes we face are not only economic: in the most profound sense, they are cultural. They infuse every aspect of how we live and relate to each other: what we think about, believe and value. We expect education to give people the skills and qualities they need for this new world. The political response is to emphasize the need to raise standards. Of course we should. There's no point in lowering them. But standards of what? Raising standards is no good if they're the wrong standards.
  - We are living in times of revolution. This revolution is comparable to the Industrial Revolution and it has still hardly begun.
  - The changes we face are not only economic: in the most profound sense, they are cultural. They infuse every aspect of how we live and relate to each other: what we think about, believe and value. We expect education to give people the skills and qualities they need for this new world. The political response is to emphasize the need to raise standards. Of course we should. There's no point in lowering them. But standards of what? Raising standards is no good if they're the wrong standards.
    Will Richardson on 2009-05-23
    
    Reminds me here of Shirky...the change will happen. Great quote as well.
  - The idea that traditional academic education still provides a direct route to permanent employment is simply irrational. Yet many national governments cling to the belief, presumably because they don't question the assumptions on which it's based. In the interests of raising traditional academic standards, schools are now encased in standardized testing regimes that shrivel the creativity of teachers and students alike. This can't go on. To prosper, in every sense, we need radical, not reactive change in education.
  - To prosper, in every sense, we need radical, not reactive change in education.
  - t's often said that education is the key to the future. It is. But a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away: turn it another and you release them. In education as in business, it's no longer enough to read, write and calculate. We won't survive the future simply by doing better what we have done in the past. In the future, we must learn to be creative.
    Will Richardson on 2009-05-23
    
    This reminds me of the Stephen Heppel quote: "This isn't the time to use technology to refine the model we had before; this is a time to harness technology to let children go as far and as fast as they want."
CHARACTER COUNTS!: Character Education Lesson Plans on 2009-11-24
CBC News - Montreal - Quebecer's Facebook photo fight a cautionary tale on 2009-11-24
Networking for Social Responsibility - WSJ.com on 2009-11-23
K-12's Stab at the Killer iPhone App -- THE Journal on 2009-11-21

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