Workshop slide deck for iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play but they are all in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 MinikeynoteAmy Burvall
Note that this is the abridged version (15 minutes) presented at BLC15; I have an hour version with almost 100 more hand-drawn slides.
While everyone is both a work of art and an artist, not
everyone thinks like one. What can the ways in which
famous artists lived their lives,as well as their creative processes, teach us? In this 15 minute keynote presented at Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2015, Amy
Burvall shares poignant takeaways from the lives of
Da Vinci and Michelangelo, the Impressionists, Toulouse-
Lautrec, Picasso, and Warhol.
Through anecdotes, quotes, and metaphorical imagery,
these apologues serve as digestible life lessons educators and leaders can embrace in their own
intellectual and creative lives and share with students.
Workshop slide deck for iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play but they are all in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
#GetsmART: Lessons from the Artists BLC15 MinikeynoteAmy Burvall
Note that this is the abridged version (15 minutes) presented at BLC15; I have an hour version with almost 100 more hand-drawn slides.
While everyone is both a work of art and an artist, not
everyone thinks like one. What can the ways in which
famous artists lived their lives,as well as their creative processes, teach us? In this 15 minute keynote presented at Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2015, Amy
Burvall shares poignant takeaways from the lives of
Da Vinci and Michelangelo, the Impressionists, Toulouse-
Lautrec, Picasso, and Warhol.
Through anecdotes, quotes, and metaphorical imagery,
these apologues serve as digestible life lessons educators and leaders can embrace in their own
intellectual and creative lives and share with students.
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
In this workshop we explored the essence of creativity and how to cultivate a creative creative climate in the classroom. We explored low barrier entry ways to get students thinking and working more creatively on a daily basis, using both digital and analog tools and strategies.
***please note the videos embedded are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
My keynote for the "Know Yourself and Be Open to the Differences of Others" children's conference at the University of Worcester, UK for students age 9-13
*please note that the videos will not play
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
Building Learning Communities: Make du Jour- Fostering Creativity for Persona...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA, July 2014.
* please note the videos will not play in Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
I conducted a workshop on the Japanese art of "unuseless inventions" - known as Chindogu. We had a great time, and stay tuned for the blog post and some really cool Chindogus. Meanwhile, here's the deck from my workshop.
Have fun!
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
In this workshop we explored the essence of creativity and how to cultivate a creative creative climate in the classroom. We explored low barrier entry ways to get students thinking and working more creatively on a daily basis, using both digital and analog tools and strategies.
***please note the videos embedded are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
My keynote for the "Know Yourself and Be Open to the Differences of Others" children's conference at the University of Worcester, UK for students age 9-13
*please note that the videos will not play
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
Building Learning Communities: Tapping Passion and Reflection for Learning - ...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note videos will not play in Slideshare but you can find most of them in the Vlogging G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
Building Learning Communities: Make du Jour- Fostering Creativity for Persona...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA, July 2014.
* please note the videos will not play in Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
I conducted a workshop on the Japanese art of "unuseless inventions" - known as Chindogu. We had a great time, and stay tuned for the blog post and some really cool Chindogus. Meanwhile, here's the deck from my workshop.
Have fun!
Thinking about giving a talk about something you love? Possibly at Skepticamp? No? Why not? Here are some reassurances, planning tips, and dos and do-nots to get you up there sharing your expertise with the world.
Crushing It with Creativity- The Virtual Summit EU keynoteAmy Burvall
Crushing It with Creativity outlines some of the beliefs set forth in the "Creativity Credo" from my book, "Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom". It then offers a plethora of ideas for creative thinking in the classroom and beyond
"Rivulet" is the latest in the alcohol ink drip playing series started in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This slideshow has visuals using various materials, many acquired during a recent vacation. Here is hoping to a return to an improved normal. There is still winter first.
WHAT?!
Picasso WASN'T an artist?
See a summery of Niene.nu's ART TLK
Need to know more about change?
Have Niene come over to talk about art & change at your event!
Come on over to the Moodlab for more info
or
shoot me an email mail[at]niene.nu
www.nienesmoodlab.nu/speaking-art-talks
All I needed to know about Social Media, I learned from Girl Scout Cookies! [excerpt from a Social Media training by @imagirlscout - note that licensed Girl Scout fonts will not appear correctly]
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity with Choice and VoiceAmy Burvall
originally presented as closing keynote for the Think. Create. Share conference at California State University at Fullerton in May, 2014. Please note that since this is an Apple Keynote transferred to a pdf the embedded videos will not play, though I will try to link separately.
The Creative Career (Girls Unlimited April 2015 Keynote)Cheryl Platz
Redmond's Girls Unlimited program hosts annual workshops focusing on career options for young women in the area. In 2015, I was invited to return for my second Girls Unlimited keynote talk, this time focusing on my career in the arts - both in interaction design and in acting. The talk ends with a number of calls to action that are applicable to any beginning artistic career.
This is the first part of a three part presentation given in Los Cabos, Mexico for UNOi. In it, I draw parallels between the life, creative processes and work of Leonardo Da Vinci and that of project-based learning, maker culture, and inquiry. At the beginning some analogies are made between mobile learning and the Impressionist art movement.
Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. A remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy.
***please note that videos are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112632173247239192908
***please note that videos will not play
Mozilla’s Doug Belshaw says that the “heart” of “digital literacies” is the Remix. Kirby Ferguson eloquently encouraged us in his TED talk to “Embrace the Remix”, because, as his enlightening documentary series reminds us, “everything is a remix”. Newspaper blackout artist and award-winning author Austin Kleon’s advice to budding creatives is to “Steal Like an Artist”, because “you are a mashup of what you let into your life”. Our students are engrossed in remix culture - they are the appropriation and recontextualization generation. Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and, frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. Most importantly a remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy. This session is part pedagogical/philosophical and part participatory. Attendees will leave with a “goodie-bag” of resources and ideas in the form of an ever-growing G+ community to organize resources and serve as a space for sharing participant work and continuing the conversation long after the conference has ended.
The slide show offers a glimpse into the history of remix in the art world and its significance in our present media landscape. We’ll explore how different techniques of remix and mashup lend themselves to collaborative creativity and differentiation in the classroom. We’ll also look into the distinctions between “remix” and “rip-off” and discuss the ways in which to help work become transformative rather than mere copies. There will be some discussion of copyright reform, fair use, and creative commons as well. Philosophically we’ll look at the work of William Burroughs, Grandmaster Flash, and Andy Warhol as well as the more recent efforts of writer Austin Kleon, media theorist Henry Jenkins, MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergartener Mitch Resnick, documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, and the online course DS106.
We’ll explore how social media in particular inspires recontextualization and re-imagining. And, in an era of ever-abbreviated communication, we’ll look at various ways to essentialize and synthesize into more minimalist, visual interpretations.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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