I was just thinking about how fear affects us, and how there are a lot of things in the world that I am supposed to be afraid of, but I'm not. I was thinking about how I make decisions based upon the fact I am not afraid - even if someone tells me I should be.Go tell him what you are not afraid of...
The universities designed the [current education] system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted system of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not. Because everything they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can't afford to go on like that.Here's the whole thing:
We talked about this video at the Boston Media Makers meeting on Sunday. I'm glad I watched it.
"Renee Hobbs, a 20 year veteran of the media literacy movement, recently launched a new website, e — My Pop Studio — which takes this premise as a starting point. The site targets young middle school and early high school aged girls, encouraging them to reflect more deeply about some of the media they consume — pop music, reality television, celebrity magazines, and the like — by stepping into the role of media producers. "My Pop Studio.
"Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it."Gotta watch this.
"Watching all the coverage of the fighting in Lebanon this week, i was curious to know exactly the scale of the distances involved between northern Israel and Beirut. I'd been to the region before but not where the fighting was going on. So I decided to take a screenshot of the war zone from Google Maps and overlay it with a map of part of the northeast US, using the same scale for both images. The result is this short video."
NOW, today, this very second, it's no longer good enough to keep your standalone blog. You must throw in with the people around you who do similar things. You must build value. You must deliver something consistent, useful, powerful, that will reach the audience who likes your stuff, in such a way that it engages you.Then again you could also just keep posting to your own blog, for an audience of one. I like Chris' enthusiasm for bringing people together, but I don't see the urgency.
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