Showing posts with label Ken Robinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Robinson. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 January 2014

oddbackandforwardthinking


First week back teaching after the break – a good first briefing looking at the final 20 weeks and ways forward. The ideas behind Ken Robinson’s new book http://sirkenrobinson.com/ became the focus for the afternoon sessions with discussions around passion, responsibility and ownership of creative practice whilst looking at completing the Learning agreements for unit 8!
Managed to reorganise the layout of the blog as you can see and finally sorted out the CV..... bringing it up to date.
Meanwhile I thought Adventure Time was a wonderful stream of consciousness but Bee and PuppyCat is the new odd – check it out above....

Friday, 3 January 2014

inspiredbythesoundsofthepastnow


Managed to catch up with some reading Yeah Yeah Yeah the history of Pop Music is most excellent – I’ve been reading it next to a lap top and so combining the sounds and images of the past with the words of Bob Stanley some of the gems are when rock and roll didn’t have a name and they were making it up as they went along.
So far I’m up to British Beat Groups...
and then there are the Beatles...the book has really turned up the grit in these tracks

I think we have all been inspired and/or had our thoughts on creativity and education confirmed by watching Ken Robinson’s TED lecture – how schools kill creativity http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html His new book continues the theme, widening ideas around education  with stirring examples of individuals finding their element.