Creativity is one of the most important competencies of the 21st Century. Yet, the puzzling question is how to nurture it? Children are creative from the day they are born and the film describes how to support creativity across cultures.
The content is based on the report, Cultures of Creativity, published by the LEGO Foundation.
Here's the full report by David Gauntlett and Bo Stjerne Thomsen and 20 leading international experts on play, learning and creativity.
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In her talk, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.
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This lesson, based on the documentary film Bridegroom, will help students better understand the issues concerning the disparity of civil rights extended to different communities in American society.
The film also addresses student strategies for coping with bullying and overcoming feelings of social isolation.
The lesson is also aligned to McREL learning standards, contains project based learning activities and a discussion guide for educators.
These learning materials have been released under a Creative Commons license and may be shared and downloaded for educational and non-profit use, with attribution.
LESSON MATERIALS
To complete this lesson, students will need access to the following:
Copy of the documentary film Bridegroom (DVD) Also available on Netflix
Bridegroom Lesson Plan & Teacher Discussion Guide (Available below or on Scribd)
Tom Bridegroom’s Celebration of Life Montage: http://youtu.be/_4ZBbUWr6dQ
Shane Bitney Crone “It Gets Better” http://youtu.be/T6k_tJ1NXKU
Shane Bitney Crone: “It Could Happen To You” http://youtu.be/pR9gyloyOjM
ADDITIONAL TEACHER MATERIALS & RESOURCES
Bridegroom Official Website: http://bridegroommovie.com/
Crisis Text Line: http://www.crisistextline.org/get-help-now/
Meet Shane Bitney Interview (Pop Sugar Entertainment): http://youtu.be/1kxjYhDem4w
Youth Suicide Prevention Guide: http://theguide.fmhi.usf.edu/pdf/Overview.pdf
How to Report Suicidal Expressions on Facebook: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75718714/Facebook-101-How-to-Report-Suicidal-Expressions
Trevor Project Resources: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/section/resources
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Findery, and the world, is your classroom!
While it may seem like you just wrapped up finals, packed up the classroom and headed for a well-deserved summer break, the (sad) truth is a new semester is right around the corner!
As you sit on that beach, you may be wondering how can you incorporate more project-based learning activities into your course syllabus and grab the attention of your students who, let’s be honest, have the attention span of a gnat.
Even if you’re not currently enrolled in college, Findery is a powerful informal learning platform where you can tap into the collective knowledge hidden in Findery Notes and learn (or share!) more about Australia, space travel, candy, San Francisco architecture or anything else that matters to you!
Introducing Findery University
Today I am happy to share the launch of Findery University!
Findery, is a geo-location based website where anyone can share local knowledge, hidden secrets, stories and information about the world around you. Using Findery, your students (or you!) can annotate places in the real world, leave media rich (YouTube videos, SoundCloud audio, Instagram and your own images) notes tagged to a specific geographic location.
You can even embed Findery notes into your class blog or website or share them via Twitter or on your classroom Facebook or Google+ page.
Findery for Students
Findery is a great way to create a multimedia project for just about any class. Demonstrate your learning by adding notes infused with video, images and text along the paths of your explorations. Ask your classmates to contribute their reflections, narrative feedback and resources on your Findery project through the comments.
Be sure to follow @Campus on Findery to discover and contribute notes about student life and campus history. Your notes could capture memories with your friends or pay it forward by joining the Findery Campus Challenge and leaving tips for your current and future classmates!
Findery University for Educators
Here are a few examples of how you can use Findery University to support formal and informal learning:
Are you a professor of film studies? Why not leave notes on the Findery map about the making of Giant? Or other famous movie locations?
Studying community supported agriculture? Investigate and map local food in your area, then leave notes for food sources with commentary on sustainability.
Have writer’s block? Explore the notes in a particular region and build a story around the local knowledge of that place.
If you teach American Literature, create a Set that has Notes with facts, images or videos for books or authors included on your course reading list.
Encourage observation through illustrating places. Go on a sketching excursion and post a note with the picture of your sketch. Tag your notes with #sketchproject to contribute to urban sketching fans on Findery.
Use Findery as a way to create a living history map. Share a picture of your ancestors at the docks in Liverpool with an excerpt from their diary talking about how they feel about leaving England for America.
Share a note with a video clip about the hazards of transatlantic boat travel in the 1800s and include a passage from their diary about the challenges they faced during the journey. Bring your family history to life!
Enroll in finderyU
Go to findery.com
Click "Sign Up!" and follow the prompts. Don't be afraid of the FAQs
Update your settings, jump in and create your first note, or just start exploring
Download the free Findery University handout, or check out more lesson plan ideas at www.findery.com/university
It will be exciting to see how educators use Findery in the classroom, student projects or for your amazing passion projects!
Findery wants to share your Notes and lesson plans with our educator community. Send a tweet @finderyU or share the link on the Findery Facebook page, so they can share your FinderyU contributions!
And, oh--you can find me on Findery, here.
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Here's a new Facebook for Educators handout that covers the basics of using Instagram, part of Facebook, in the classroom.
Feel free to share this, and our other (free!) Facebook Education handouts, with your colleagues, parents, youth pastor, coach or anyone who works with youth.
Related: Learn more about privacy on Instagram or get help with FAQs.
Instagram in the Classroom by Facebook for Educators
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This week Facebook rolled out a new feature--hashtags!
Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion.
Here's a new handout that covers the basics of getting started using hashtags on Facebook, along with a quick look at hashtag privacy. Feel free to share this, and our other (free!) Facebook Education handouts, with your colleagues, parents or youth pastor.
Introducing Hashtags on Facebook by Facebook for Educators
Get the Official Facebook for Educators Guide
The Facebook for Educators Guide is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The guide is a collaboration between myself, Dr. BJ Fogg, Linda Fogg-Phillips and Facebook.
We invite you to join the conversation and share your best practices for using social media in the classroom with educators from around the world on our Facebook for Educators Page (http://www.facebook.com/FBforEducators).
You can find more free handouts, resources and profession development materials on our Scribd page (http://www.scribd.com/collections/2978485/Facebook-101).
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At the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy announced that they are partnering to present their first-ever Music Educator Award to recognize music educators for their contributions to our musical landscape and their positive influence on their students' musical experiences.
This new award is open to current U.S. music teachers from kindergarten through college, in public and private schools.
Anyone can nominate a teacher — students, parents, friends, colleagues, community members, school deans and administrators — and teachers are also able to nominate themselves. Nominated teachers will be notified and invited to fill out an application.
One winner will be selected from 10 finalists each year to be recognized for their remarkable impact on their students' lives. The first award will be presented during GRAMMY Week 2014.
The winner will be flown to Los Angeles to accept the award, attend the GRAMMY Awards, and receive a $10,000 honorarium. The nine finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium.
The honorariums provided to the winners are made possible by a grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund. This new partnership with the Ford Motor Company Fund expands their financial support of GRAMMY Foundation music education initiatives.
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Games for a Digital Age: K-12 Market Map and Investment Analysis
includes a sector analysis and market map of game‐based learning
initiatives with an analysis of relevant trends in education and digital
technology that are likely to impact development of a robust game-based
learning market segment.
By formulating a new framework for understanding the changing dynamics of purchase decisions at the school, extended learning, and consumer levels including a “follow the money” analysis, this report will guide efficient use of existing capital and examine where new investment would be most productive.
Conducted and written by Dr. John Richards, Leslie Stebbins and Dr. Kurt Moellering, the report synthesizes findings from extensive market research and a series of fifty interviews with leaders in the developer and publishing industries, and from the government, foundation and research sectors.
Games for a Digital Age: K-12 Market Map and Investment Analysis by
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I've teamed up again with my writing partner, Dr. Mercedes Fisher, to take a deeper look at how designing for social spaces can help foster a deeper sense of community among students, teachers and the course content.
I'm pleased to announce that our book chapter, How Social Design Influences Student Retention and Self-Motivation in Online Learning Environments, has been published in Social Media and the New Academic Environment.
But beyond the classroom, these best practices can be integrated into any online community, forum discussion or informal online education environment.
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Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and the American Life Project, recently spoke at the annual conference of the National Religious Broadcasters.
This talk will focus on the media habits of Millennials and GenX and how their patterns of gathering and creating information are different in the digital age.
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The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.
It is unlikely that sufficient resources will be available to build enough new campuses to meet the growing global demand for higher education—at least not the sort of campuses that we have traditionally built for colleges and universities.
Nor is it likely that the current methods of teaching and learning will suffice to prepare students for the lives that they will lead in the twenty-first century.
John Seely Brown is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and Independent Co-Chairman of a New Deloitte Research Center.
He is the former Chief Scientist of Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Many of his publications and presentations are on his website (http://www.johnseelybrown.com).
Richard P. Adler is a Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto and Principal of People & Technology, a research and consulting firm in Cupertino, California.
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The U.S. Departments of Education and Defense have announced the launch of “Learning Registry,” an open source community and technology designed to improve the quality and availability of educational media resources in education.
The launch is an important milestone in the effort to more effectively share information about learning resources among a broad set of stakeholders in the education community.
PBS LearningMedia, which is home to a library of 16,000+ digital curriculum-based resources and tools for PreK-12 grade educators, will offer school initial access U.S. Department of Education's Learning Registry.
Under this relationships, a collection of resources, including photos, video, and audio files from federal organizations including NASA, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives, will now be easier to find, access and integrate into educational environments.
PBS' online media-on-demand service combines links to resources from the Learning Registry with original content from public broadcasting producers and programs like WGBH, Nova, Frontline, American Experience, Sid The Science Kid, and The Electric Company, all in one place.
Rather than creating an alternative destination to existing websites, Learning Registry is a communication system that allows existing educational portals and online systems to publish, consume and share important information about learning resources with each other and the public
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” —Marshall McLuhan
On October 10th Oprah Winfrey will launch an all-new five week series, Oprah's Lifeclass, where she will reflect on and share the lessons that she learned during the 25-year history of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
The Oprah's Lifeclass, which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), will also feature an online companion course "Life Work" that will feature exclusive videos, articles, quizzes and advice from leading experts to help students get their life on track and moving in a new direction.
In a move that will surely appeal to the younger demographic, the Life Class series will also harness the power of Facebook as a learning platform and will feature a live post-show class meeting with Oprah on Facebook.
This isn't the first time that Ms. Winfrey has used emerging digital and social media in an edutainment context. In 2008 Oprah used Skype to hold an Oprah's Book Club discussion with Eckhart Tolle. She joined forces with Anderson Cooper in 2009 to hold a Book Club webcast with Uwem Akpan.
For someone like myself, who has spent a good chunk of my time evangelizing the use of social media, education and entertainment as teaching tools, I'm beyond giddy that someone of Ms. Winfrey's stature is moving her network and voice in this direction.
What is truly exciting is to see OWN embrace both emerging social platforms like Facebook along with the web for online learning. Although, this shouldn't come as too much of a suprise that Ms. Winfrey is taking 'the classroom' anywhere the students are gathered and prepared to learn.
During her 25 years on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ms. Winfrey turned the network television into the world's biggest classroom. Whether it's building schools in Africa or educating her live audience in Chicago or viewers at home in San Antonio, Stockholm or Sydney, education has been at the core of Oprah's message.
You can sign up for Oprah's Lifeclass here.
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First Lady Michelle Obama recently announced a National Science Foundation initiative to encourage girls to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and provide flexibility to working parents in research fields.
This fact sheet takes a look at why bringing girls and women into STEM fields is so important—and what President Obama and his administration are doing to help.
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