Another good watch from our resident Sir Ken Robinson spotter Jedd. Hopefully it will stay on the web longer than the last one!
He is such an engaging speaker – and makes such sense with his views on education and creativity.
A quote from this one to think about – “Human systems are organisms not mechanisms” – unfortunately the bulk of our education system is still in a mechanised mode.
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/sir-ken-robinson-the-element
Great quote for all sorts of projects, not just application development:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
John Gall
The latest Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium is worth a skim read. There is nothing too surprising in the ‘technologies to watch section’:
but they provide good summaries of each and their relevence to teaching, learning, or creative expression.