tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17472207281284759032024-03-06T01:06:26.584-08:00wholemindesignKatie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-67415566016505941152014-06-30T16:17:00.002-07:002014-06-30T16:17:11.179-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We were very happy to work with the YMCA childcare staff doing some Design Thinking together! </span></b>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-77078217588754519992014-03-24T15:51:00.000-07:002014-03-24T16:19:15.848-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -9pt; margin-right: -31.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A studio is a place of inquiry where artists and designers prepare for the experience of public performance - a place of rehearsing, making and doing, tinkering, playing, experimenting, and prototyping. A studio is a place for individual as well as collaborative experiences. It is a space to exhibit one’s work-in-progress, get informal and formal feedback, and embrace risk-taking as a step toward developing creative confidence. It is an environment designed for “dynamic cross-pollination and cultured spontaneity”. A studio should function as both a sanctuary and proving ground, protecting and cultivating seedling ideas as they mature, but also challenging one</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vigorously wrestle with assumptions and limitations. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A studio’s ultimate purpose is to create supporting structures that lead to successful professional practice. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We offer a variety of robust studio experiences intended to position educators as vanguards in their schools. By working at the forefront of our profession with the most innovative ideas and practices emerging from research in the field, we aim to provide educators with useful tools to help them function as designers within their practice. In addition to learning new tools, educators will be encouraged to develop the habits of mind necessary for creative work: resilience, perseverance, flexibility, observation, playfulness, patience, and willingness to take risks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designing for Deep Thinking</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The text, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making Thinking Visible </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church will serve as the centerpiece for this studio experience. The thinking routines set forth in this book will be the basis of our work together, and educators will use their classrooms as a laboratory to explore these ideas with students. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designing for Creativity: The Power of Learning In-And-Through the Arts</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This studio experience is for educators interested in exploring frameworks for integrating art and creative thinking into the content areas of language arts, social studies, math, and science. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exploration:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Participants begin their studio experience by exploring one of the topics from above (for example Educators as Designers, Designing for Deep Thinking, or Designing for Creativity). The length of time for this stage will vary depending on the particular topic. Participants then articulate a challenge/opportunity in their practice where they can apply the new ideas and strategies to their own work as an educator.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experimentation</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Participants experiment with ideas in their own setting using a prototype/feedback model. They are encouraged to fail early and often to succeed sooner as they work on their own design challenge. Educators then return to the studio and “gallery walk” their work-in-progress in order to give and get feedback from one another, and gain inspiration to further develop their work. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exhibitions:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The last stage in the studio cycle is an exhibition of artifacts from the field that make the work on their challenge visible to others. The participant chooses the form that s/he wants to use to highlight struggles and accomplishments across the year such as pictures, narratives, videos, testimonials etc. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">D</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">uring this time we celebrate both incremental as well as monumental achievements, and honor the processes and products of our creativity. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">each course would likely be composed of different sets of individuals</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ITERATION 1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(typically occurs in summer for 2-3 consecutive days, or during school breaks)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6d9eeb; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(typically occurs in mid to late winter - date/time/and extent depends on participants’ schedules)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The above reflects a small portion of the kind of work we intend for our studio. Our model for growth includes designing further learning opportunities around compelling and promising ideas arising in the field of education. We are open to receiving proposals from other educators who have initiatives they would like to pursue within our studio model of professional development. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/c7puCnb7Vub87-qsoggiExxvWrZ-uhMcPIToqL2449U1pwXOYiXqRJwsY_tWBxaC0EkYyoJv880KHx9l_TJ93eq8iijgTgKVGFcxfyVqcxb0pTyuEpx8HwyqWLDTTw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/c7puCnb7Vub87-qsoggiExxvWrZ-uhMcPIToqL2449U1pwXOYiXqRJwsY_tWBxaC0EkYyoJv880KHx9l_TJ93eq8iijgTgKVGFcxfyVqcxb0pTyuEpx8HwyqWLDTTw" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0rad); border: none;" width="276px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research has proven that a natural environment heightens concentration, directs attention, and has significant stress-reducing benefits. Additionally, our natural setting is designed to help participants release feelings of fragmentation and disconnection as a step toward building cohesion in their professional lives. </span><img height="209px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/JJlF-_NX15FXU20FF0GbzPgbtKhWJbgoFo3CROri66hmUgYa0gBZM3laMECSK_EdCA7rnp1R9Uy8nf8g5LnGOEtedVBeelDMaLSzoInxh1ZgxqoHlAl5OR_Jb4PXbQ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="281px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-3364139118004491612014-02-27T06:57:00.000-08:002014-02-27T06:57:49.640-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">changethis.com is a great resource for manifestos from interesting people - their mission is to spread good ideas - here is one (of many!) that I like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/6.HowToBeCreative">How To Be Creative - a manifesto</a></span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-80692998162694403942014-02-22T13:59:00.002-08:002014-02-22T13:59:51.605-08:00<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkNaMIsI8oSCCknemN6FelYOV0OTfBaNT&v=5IRr-JkIwlc#t=183"><span style="font-size: large;">Wonderful video on the creative process - a must see!</span></a>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-47679487666502473412014-02-10T12:44:00.002-08:002014-02-10T12:44:45.521-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Have we crossed into new territory! When colleges and universities begin focusing on certain content, K-12 educators tend to respond. Let's hope this signals a change in how we prepare students for college <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3E%20http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/education/edlife/creativity-becomes-an-academic-discipline.html?_r=0">Creativity as an Academic Discipline</a></span>. <span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned for Wholemindesign's <b><span style="color: orange;">"Why Wait To Innovate" </span></b>series.</span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-46401133259704776812014-01-20T06:53:00.000-08:002014-01-20T06:53:04.512-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Ken Robinson does it again! </span><br />
<a href="http://learning-reimagined.com/sir-ken-robinson-art-of-teaching/"><span style="font-size: large;">Ken Robinson on the art of teaching</span></a>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-48663358189915773972014-01-01T18:32:00.003-08:002014-01-01T18:32:29.972-08:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Check out our work with the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business! </span></b><br />
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<a href="http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=uk2wzfqcgjkybtip677f"><span style="font-size: large;">Images from Wholemindesign's work with Ross School of Business</span></a>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-6191983690558956372013-10-25T05:42:00.002-07:002013-10-25T05:42:48.499-07:00<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html">HEAR TIM BROWN TALK ABOUT PLAY AND CREATIVITY</a><br />Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-82346834009705608212013-09-28T14:14:00.001-07:002013-09-28T14:14:13.232-07:00Do you have creative confidence?This is a great Ted Talk by David Kelly that I highly recommend.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16p9YRF0l-g">Building creative confidence</a>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-84776499926104213202013-09-09T09:05:00.003-07:002013-09-09T09:06:01.662-07:00<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This article really grabs me and articulates something about innovation
and creativity that I believe deeply. It reminds me of a quote I wrote
down when I was in college and discovering the world of creativity. It
is from an art critic called Theodore Wolf: </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: orange;">"On its deepest level,
creativity is a form of love that expresses itself in the urge to
clarify share with others what it holds most dear. It is the expression
of an expansive, curious, and generous spirit, eager to do what it must
to activate, provoke, reveal, or release the fullest aspects of life
and love in itself and in others."
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<u><b>And from the HBR article:</b></u> <b>"The unspoken assumption is that our goal is to gain competitive
advantage, to crush the competition, to win. But I believe that the best
creativity comes from a much deeper place than the desire to win. It
comes from a desire to contribute to the lives of others, either by
introducing something new that improves the quality of their lives or by
showing people that something thought to be impossible is in fact
possible. When you change people's perceptions about what can be
accomplished or achieved, you contribute to their humanity in the
richest possible way. You give them hope for the future — a sense that
life is not the demoralizing, unchanging drudgery day after day that the
world so often teaches us that it is. When you change the way people
think about possibility, it is an existential experience. It makes them
feel understood."<br />
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"I write a lot about philanthropy. Philanthropy means, literally, love of
humanity. You don't have to give a million dollars to charity to be a
philanthropist. You simply have to actively demonstrate your love of
humanity. Your empathy. If the purpose of our creativity is philanthropy
— if it is love for our fellow man, an appreciation that people
struggle in their lives, and a desire to somehow lessen that struggle
and increase their joy, with a little more leg room or with an iPad — it
will change the world. And that is the greatest competitive advantage
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</span></span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-41561083640552766332013-08-24T06:11:00.002-07:002013-08-24T06:11:47.683-07:00<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">This was in Brighton Area School's Newsletter - a little good press never hurts! Design Thinking Training: Earlier this summer, BAS teachers
Jeanne Blazo, Jeri Kay Thomas, Maureen Strachen, Brenda Hurley, and Lisa
Wheeler, along with Hawkin's Principal Pat Meyer attended a three-day, in-depth
exploration of Design Thinking. The premise of the class was rooted in the
fundamental belief that educators should be designers of their own practice and
not merely implementers of programs. The course was created for teachers
and administrators who are working on authentic and engaging learning
experiences while meeting the demands of the required curriculum. As part of
their collaborative work, site visits were made to Google Headquarters in Ann
Arbor.The course participants are excited to continue exploring the Design
Thinking process within their own buildings and classroom experiences. The
course was offered through the <i>Wholemindesign Studio for Teaching and
Learning</i> and was led by Katie Robertson and BAS Kindergarten teacher Diane
Tamblyn. </span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-61063505503501314852013-08-23T17:07:00.004-07:002013-08-23T17:07:54.878-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Hello designing friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This looks like a fantastic opportunity - getting to spend 2 weeks at an IDEO site is very exciting. Let us know about your experience if you are able to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thefortnight.net/">Very cool opportunity!</a></span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-89256345824165487352013-08-16T19:52:00.001-07:002013-08-16T19:52:20.533-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We had a fabulous time with some very special educators in our first iteration of Educators as Designers. They made us a wonderful gift at the end of class - "322" represents our collective years of experience as educators. Can't wait for the next iteration of the class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=pn37x7excddbprb76226">See our summer story here!</a></span></div>
Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-36518886162039144302013-08-05T11:45:00.001-07:002013-08-05T11:45:12.925-07:00Wonderful class!!!<span style="font-size: large;">We had an extraordinary time in our class, <b><span style="color: orange;">Educators as Designers</span></b>, last week! Thank you to all of those who made the experience so special. We are looking forward to planning 2.0. Watch our website for more details. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-58147486293909754302013-07-23T16:16:00.002-07:002013-07-23T16:16:28.591-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">This looks like an interesting conference for those interested in teaching design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6787729281/">http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6787729281/</a></span><br />
<br />Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-21851897362848371872013-07-15T07:31:00.003-07:002013-07-15T07:31:23.850-07:00<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;">Educators as Designers </span>2013 is now full. Thanks to all who have inquired and we will let you know when the next edition of the class is scheduled to occur. </span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-57178604277706014852013-05-27T15:21:00.002-07:002013-05-27T15:21:40.076-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Four spots left in o<span style="font-size: large;">ur "Educators as Designers" <span style="font-size: large;">summer<span style="font-size: large;"> course July 29, 30, and 31. <span style="font-size: large;">Will you be joining us<span style="font-size: large;">? H<span style="font-size: large;">ope so!!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-8632932214251037152013-05-20T05:56:00.001-07:002013-05-20T05:56:08.255-07:00
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt;"><span style="color: #dd8047; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 60%; mso-color-index: 5; mso-special-format: bullet;">¨</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tw Cen MT";">One way Howard Gardner defines intell<span style="color: orange;">i</span>gence: <span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></span></div>
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valued within one’s culture."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tw Cen MT";">Sir Ken Robinson's definition of creativity:</span></span></div>
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process of having original ideas that have value.” </span></span></span></span></div>
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Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-16233084340801413622013-05-12T12:04:00.006-07:002013-05-12T12:04:58.693-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">T<span style="font-size: large;">here is new research that supports the idea of movement and touch (aka wholemindesign's mobile mapping process</span>) as a powerful way to learn. They are calling it "<b>embodied cognition". </b>Here is a link to an article describing this concept</span><br />
<a href="http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2013/02/06/02bits-cognitive.h06.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2013/02/06/02bits-cognitive.h06.html</span></a>. Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-11432952816219475202013-05-07T12:08:00.000-07:002013-05-07T12:08:00.175-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Hello friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a link to a podcast I was interviewed for recently about the importance of arts integration in schools. </span><br />
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Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-18695900526752740662013-05-02T06:52:00.002-07:002013-05-02T06:52:41.978-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">An award for service in<span style="font-size: large;"> the arts was recently named in my father's hon<span style="font-size: large;">or - the <span style="font-size: large;">Eric Oddl<span style="font-size: large;">eifson Arts and Learning Award.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.artslearning.org/programs/advocacy/pr/annual_awards/ALaward">The Eric Oddleifson Arts and Learning Award</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This year's recipient<span style="font-size: large;">, A<span style="font-size: large;">aron <span style="font-size: large;">Dworkin<span style="font-size: large;"> sounds like a won<span style="font-size: large;">derful man.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.aarondworkin.com/about.html">about Aaron Dworkin</a> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-15816655702984265102013-04-25T21:02:00.000-07:002013-04-25T21:02:46.249-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Check out this 5 min video clip of a child summarizing a story using her mobile map! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjCmq6mx_Js&feature=youtu.be">A student talking through her mobile map story structure</a></span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-50539843875395206922013-04-21T13:24:00.004-07:002013-04-21T13:26:54.850-07:00 <span style="font-size: small;">"<span style="font-size: large;">Creativity is not an option, it is a necessity" <span style="font-size: large;">- S<span style="font-size: large;">ir Ken Robinson. I completely agree that l</span></span>ife is not an entirely linear<span style="font-size: large;"> experience, yet schools treat it as if it is...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/01/sir-ken-robinson-fostering-creativity-in-education-is-not-an-option/">http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/01/sir-ken-robinson-fostering-creativity-in-education-is-not-an-option/</a></span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-19086494058597881492013-04-15T10:40:00.003-07:002013-04-15T10:40:59.375-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">From my Mentor, Elliot Eisner: "<b>What I think many of us want is not only a form of educational practice whose features, so to speak, "design us, " but a form of educational practice that enables students learn ho<span style="font-size: large;">w</span> to design themselves. Thus it might be said that at its best education is a process of learning how to become the architect of our own education.</b>" </span>from "What Can Education Learn From the Arts About the Practice of Education?"Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1747220728128475903.post-38027391298881081842013-04-14T07:21:00.001-07:002013-04-15T10:36:25.675-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">I was introduced to some new terms recently that I just love - "eduvators"and "solutionaries" to describe innovative educators! Pass them along!</span>Katie Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798368831774262988noreply@blogger.com0