Inspiring

This is why we need to be thinking about new educational paradigms. Teaching for the needs of the industrial revolution is no longer going to cut it.  We need to think about the kind of work we are preparing students for.   The 21st century is increasingly going to value qualities like creativity, flexibility and ability to approach problems in unconventional ways.  These are skills that the arts are uniquely effective effective in imparting.

Here is an entertaining and thought provoking talk by Sir Ken Robinson, respected thinker and advocate for education reform. - 

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html


These are links to arts advocacy sites:

Americans for the Arts (www.artsusa.org)
Keep Arts In Schools (www.KeepArtsinSchools.org)
The Kennedy Center (www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org)
VSA Arts (www.vsarts.org)
National Endowment for the Arts (arts.endow.gov)
National Art Education Association (NAEA) (www.naea-reston.org/)
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts (www.nationalguild.org)
The Arts Education Partnership (www.aep-arts.org)

Constructed Photographs

This marvelous video offers an historic timeline of the constructed photograph. Beautifully crafted, by Matt Glass.

Virtual Worlds - latest project

I've been working a great deal on virtual worlds in art education. I've created an Ed Media Center in Second Life to support our program. It's got a gallery, classroom, and access to all kinds of media.

My website - http://juliansea.wordpress.com/

This very well done video is by Tony O'Driscoll. (Wada Tripp on Second Life)

Technology

Social Media

Daniel Pink talks about motivation. Fascinating and persuasive.

Telephony!

Lately it's been phones everywhere I look.  Part of this may be my own passionate desire for an iPhone, but it seems that the topic of phones in the classroom has become increasingly vital and relevant. 

Also, increasingly heated.  There's are concerns being raised about the distraction, about cheating, and about bullying. These are issues that we need to address.  This video by David Truss makes some excellent points:

The POD's are Coming

View more presentations from David Truss.

At any rate. - on to the links!

The Mobile Learner is a blog devoted entirely to the discussion of the uses of mobile technologies in the classroom! It seems to be updated regularly. I put it on my bloglines.  http://themobilelearner.wordpress.com/

This entry at The Clever Sheep blog looks at both sides of the cellphone debate, and provides lots of links to commentary.  

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/04/cell-phones-in-classroom.html

Liz Kolb has made this something of a specialty of hers. This website for the K12 Online Conference has a page with plenty of resources, and a video of her very informative presentation.

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=152

This entry on the Teaching Palette, is fantastic! The thirty best new iPhone aps for art teachers - hurrah! 

 http://theteachingpalette.com/index.php?s=mobile