Not sure what to think of the twitter project. Tinkered with it today. I’ve enjoyed using facebook but not sure if I’ll be tweeting much for now. We’ll see…
As I enter 2009 I found the preceding interview of Gladwell on Charlie Rose very important for me at this particular time. I haven’t read his new book and to be honest, I don’t plan to at this time. I’m planning on going back to finish Blink and think about the relationship between rapid cognition, meaningful work and curiosity (important culminating point at the end of the interview) and how that affects not only my work as an educator but my day to day living as well.
I first discovered Malcolm Gladwell via his talk on TED on What we can learn from spaghetti sauce.
It’s hard not to love anything on TED but this talk was particularly poignant for me at the time. I am not an artist and have never claimed to be but this talk re-affirmed for me my interest in the importance of intentionally teaching creativity (or curiosity) in schools.
It also helped support my feeling that the fact that art and visual literacy is something that is merely taught at the fringe or in an extra-curricular setting significantly hurts our students. In an attempt to help students in the area of science, math and technology, we fail to see the importance of art, creativity and visual literacy in this age. Despite our efforts and investment in science, math and technology in this country, why are our students still so significantly behind? And, more importantly, why does so much creative work seem to come from those same students from those same countries that are so significantly ahead of our students in the area of science, math and technology? It seems like these students have no problem being strong in disciplines that are both right and left brain.
Dan Pink has something to say about that.
After that talk on TED, I began reading Blink and reflected on the importance of “rapid cognition” and how it was immensely related to his talk on spaghetti sauce and how that relation was significantly relevant to teaching in a web2.0 classrooms(whatever that means since, for the most part, they really don’t exist…sticking hardware in a classroom doesn’t count…and, it may, in fact, hurt more than help).
So, again as I enter 2009 I plan to go back to finish Blink and enjoy thinking about the relationship between rapid cognition, meaningful work and curiosity and how that affects not only my work as an educator but my day to day living as well.
a nice perk to being in austin this year…
the music calendar’s getting good for us here in austin. next week, it’s stereolab (one of lina’s favorite bands) on wed and jose gonzalez on saturday.
we were tempted to squeeze in david byrne on thursday but, thankfully, the show sold out!
a couple of weeks and it’s magnetic fields in mid-october followed byOZOMATLI and the show i’m looking forward to the most, TV ON THE RADIO at the end of the month! packed but good.
tonight, it’s the amoda’s digital showcase at club deville. since i’m in austin this year, i’m not missing sxsw-interactive. we enjoyed amoda’s laptop battle at the mohawk last year. this should be fun.
i love this app.
although i need to say, i’m not a big fan of twitter for some reason.
it’s probably not so much twitter itself, per se, but it’s users. it’s like marx and marxists. or christ and christians. twitter and twitterians.
regardless, there’s something simply special about this little app that speaks to the spirit of our time. it reminded me of the following talk on ted. more socio-cultural and spiritual than techie.
..as if i need a sign from god…
…the same guy that said, “having guts always looks out for me”
…and “trying to look good limits my life”
….and finally, “assuming is stifling”
with a little glasser thrown in…this video is good. especially if you missed church last sunday.
Untitled from luna lopez on Vimeo.
