Comments on: Imagine, Create, Innovate

By: Chad Lehman

Chad Lehman — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:17:33 +0000

Every time I read about what is going on at an International School, I often wish I was working at one. For whatever reason, we just don’t seem to be doing things the right way where I am. Perhaps some of the ideas I read about can be implemented, but overall school change isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

By: jasonmkern

jasonmkern — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:56:01 +0000

"teach students to be imaginative, to be creative, to be innovative" good stuff at http://bit.ly/13sPYn

By: Jeff Utecht

Jeff Utecht — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:28:29 +0000

WOW what an honor! I wear it with pride (Does it matter that I flunked out of art in middle school?)

By: David Gran

David Gran — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:22:17 +0000

I love it – from the website “2009 is the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.”

Lets have that in the US as well, because as far as I can tell, 2009 is the year of teaching to the test, like it was in 2008, 2007….

Thanks for this great post Jeff, this is the kind of thing that art educators have been pushing as art funding has been slashed. I dub you an honorary art teacher

By: Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:55:18 +0000

Thx, u2. Sounds like a great conference. I’m reading Gardner’s 5 Minds at the moment: very good. Not familiar with Disruptive Class.

By: Jeff Utecht

Jeff Utecht — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:41:24 +0000

I agree…that goes along with what Gardner writes along with others. I’m in the middle of reading Disruptive Class and the more I read the more I’m thinking we need to be celebrating all types of intelligence. We don’t do a very good job of that I think.

Hope all is well!

By: Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:02:07 +0000

Interesting thoughts. I imagine one way of approaching measurement of what students leave school with would be to look at how contented they are when they are older (ie a longitudinal study) and to compare the graduates of different types of education.
I have long thought that any education that does not furnish students with a very deep knowledge of themselves is lacking in a very fundamental respect. (It is not for nothing, in my opinion, that one of the oldest sayings is ‘Know Thyself’.)

Part of ‘knowing thyself’ is being able to recognise and celebrate what one is good at, and to be able to recognise and celebrate it in others. At the moment, the only sort of achievement we tend to acknowledge is academic. I think we should also acknowledge skills like being able to get on with others, having a sensse of humor, and being able to write a blog post out of the blue from having been stiumlated by a poster!

By: Tom Whitby

Tom Whitby — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:48:08 +0000

RT @jutecht: Just Blogged: Imagine, Create, Innovate http://bit.ly/BhGFy