A few more links have been added - this time to websites devoted to particular artists. If anyone has any favourites they've found that they want added just let me know.
I've mentioned Leonardo da Vinci before as a sort of code for creativity but I thought I would post a You Tube video of someone producing their own version of the Mona Lisa with MS Paint. It gives an idea of what is possible when art meets ICT, though I suspect it took more than 5 minutes to produce originally. Enjoy...
Saturday 26 January 2008
Friday 25 January 2008
Update on links
Ok, I think I've worked out how to embed a link in a post now, so Doug's own blog is here.
Links to the education pages of London Galleries and Museums
I have started to work on the 'Useful Links' section and added in some links to the education pages for a number of galleries and museums in London. More useful stuff will follow. Once this section is full I may have to think about organising it more efficiently but for now it will do as a start. If anyone finds that some of the links don't work any more just let me know.
Oh, and thanks to Doug Dickinson for bringing yesterday's You Tube video to my attention. Doug was the inspiration behind setting up this blog and he deserves credit for that. He has his own blog at http://www.dougdickinson.co.uk/blog/index.html, which is about ICT, teaching and learning. Now I just have to go away and find out how to embed links to such things.
Oh, and thanks to Doug Dickinson for bringing yesterday's You Tube video to my attention. Doug was the inspiration behind setting up this blog and he deserves credit for that. He has his own blog at http://www.dougdickinson.co.uk/blog/index.html, which is about ICT, teaching and learning. Now I just have to go away and find out how to embed links to such things.
Thursday 24 January 2008
Let's start at the very beginning...
Which, I hear, is a very good place to start. Apparently, when you read you being with ABC, when you sing you begin with Do-Re-Mi. When considering creativity in education you could do worse than listen to Ken Robinson on the subject. For once size does matter and it's well worth listening and watching right through to the end (it doesn't hurt that the message is wrapped in such an entertaining package).
There's a serious message here about the fact that education tends to stifle creativity when it should be celebrating and nurturing it. Do we just want children who can do? Or do we want them to be able to do creatively in whatever subject or field?
It annoys me that art is seen as a soft subject and not as worthy as, say, mathematics when it has so much to offer (including a lot of links with mathematics). As a child I wanted to be an artist but my school had other ideas for me, especially as I was also good at things like mathematics. I could have been good at both but it seemed to be an either-or situation with teachers at the time. I was no creative genius but I could certainly have been more creative than I was. We should all take time to stop and think about what would happen to Leonardo da Vinci in today's education system. Would we still get the Mona Lisa as well as early ideas for the invention of the helicopter? Not to mention all the other topics to which he turned his attention. Were the observational skills so useful to his artistic production also useful in scrutinising the world around him? Were his mathematical skills in geometry and proportion also useful in his painting? Or did the one support and enhance the other?
There's a serious message here about the fact that education tends to stifle creativity when it should be celebrating and nurturing it. Do we just want children who can do? Or do we want them to be able to do creatively in whatever subject or field?
It annoys me that art is seen as a soft subject and not as worthy as, say, mathematics when it has so much to offer (including a lot of links with mathematics). As a child I wanted to be an artist but my school had other ideas for me, especially as I was also good at things like mathematics. I could have been good at both but it seemed to be an either-or situation with teachers at the time. I was no creative genius but I could certainly have been more creative than I was. We should all take time to stop and think about what would happen to Leonardo da Vinci in today's education system. Would we still get the Mona Lisa as well as early ideas for the invention of the helicopter? Not to mention all the other topics to which he turned his attention. Were the observational skills so useful to his artistic production also useful in scrutinising the world around him? Were his mathematical skills in geometry and proportion also useful in his painting? Or did the one support and enhance the other?
Wednesday 23 January 2008
In the beginning...
Every journey has to start with a single step. This is my first step into the world of blogging. WHat will my second step be? You'll have to come back and find out. :)
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