tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:48:01 +0000photographydigital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationeducation arts curriculum urban success trends youthMacArthur Foundationanimationenvironmentextrememuseumsmusic3DCalifornia EndowmentCanadaCoachella ValleyDigital Media and LearningDoctorowDoodleFenderGates FoundationGibsonGoogleHall of FameICAJoshua TreeLes PaulLondonLos AngelesNina SimoneParliamentRiversideThermalUniversity of CaliforniaVenice Artsafricanaperturebirdsbox camerachildrencollodionconsumerismdaguereotypesdisplacementeconomyeducationeducation graduation economics retention minoritieselectionsengineeringforeclosuregallerygeographygovernmentgraffitigrantsgraphicsgreen energyguitarshealthhistoryhousingimagesimmersionindustrial revolutioninteractiveintertextualitykeliy anderson-staleylisa henrymakersparticipationplasticspovertyprototypingpuget soundsanctuarysci fisilver nitratesocial sciencesstorytelllingstreet artteachingtechiesteenagerstintypestransmediavictorianhttp://i215radio.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-171669135795015636Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:38:00 +00002011-06-20T10:38:34.923-07:00digital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationGates FoundationgrantsMacArthur FoundationGATES & MACARTHUR FOUNDATIONS STEP UP FOR KIDS - Provide Millions to Support Digital Learning Platforms “Digital technologies are bringing fundamental changes to how young people learn, play, socialize and participate civically,” said Julia Stasch, Vice President of U.S. Programs at MacArthur. “And, although traditional literacies – such as reading, writing, science and math – are http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/06/recreate-edu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-1360383143713440219Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:14:00 +00002011-06-09T13:14:19.743-07:00DoodleFenderGibsonGoogleguitarsHall of FameinteractiveLes PaulmusicGoogle Celebrates Guitar Legend Les Paul's 96th Birthday with Interactive Doodle You can play and even record a tune! Les Paul built his first electric guitar in 1941, but he is most well-known for the Gibson Les Paul, which debuted in 1952. "It grew out of his desire, as a musician and inventor, to create a stringed instrument that could make electronic sound without distorting," the Hall of http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/06/art-music-doodle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-7305345647509712259Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:08:00 +00002011-06-04T14:08:07.967-07:00digital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationhistoryimagessocial sciencesUniversity of CaliforniaCALISPHERE: A WORLD OF DIGITAL RESOURCES Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of Californiahttp://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/06/california-in-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-7004448195470521070Sat, 21 May 2011 03:01:00 +00002011-05-20T20:01:43.435-07:00New Book by Photographer Mark Klett YOSEMITE IN TIME: ICE AGES, TREE CLOCKS, GHOST RIVERS by Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe. Hardcover, 144 pages. Trinity University Press.  Yosemite is a world-famous destination that has attracted celebrated photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, along with environmental organizations, rock climbers, and http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/05/mapping-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-4499147688750753871Thu, 05 May 2011 00:34:00 +00002011-05-04T17:34:43.505-07:00Canadadigital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationeducation arts curriculum urban success trends youthelectionsParliamentparticipationIn Canada, the Students Rule. Really. Chronicle of Higher Education TWEED May 4, 2011, 3:32 pm How green are the New Democratic Party’s new members of Parliament from Quebec? So green that—after briefly meeting the press on Tuesday under the watchful eyes of party handlers—the rookie MP’s were whisked away and will remain incommunicado while they learn how to behave as parliamentarians, receive http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/05/youth-movement-in-canada.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8742708677872373401Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:52:00 +00002011-04-28T10:52:42.382-07:00 See also"What is transmedia?"http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/04/multiple-platforms-varied-narratives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-1412984933140695918Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:55:00 +00002011-03-30T11:55:57.964-07:00Digital Media and LearningeducationMacArthur FoundationteachingDigital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century: Featuring the foremost thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the field, the video "Digital Media" is a startling preview of a 21st Century education revolution. Sponsored by MacArthur Foundation, Pearson Foundation, Adobe Education, and Adobe Systems. Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century.http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/03/digital-media-new-learners-of-21st.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-6896593816910014196Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:54:00 +00002011-03-09T14:33:43.161-08:00consumerismimmersionintertextualitystorytelllingtransmediaIn his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, MIT professor Henry Jenkins describes transmedia storytelling as storytelling across multiple forms of media with each making distinctive contributions to a fan's understanding of the story world. By using different media formats, transmedia creates "entrypoints" through which consumers can become immersed in a story world. The aimhttp://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/03/transmedia-storytelling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-95308865131476567Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:30:00 +00002011-02-28T12:37:20.327-08:00California EndowmentCoachella Valleydigital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationhealthpovertyteenagersThermalVenice ArtsPicturing Health: Photographs by Teens in Central and Southern California Opens March 12, with a reception and talk with several of the young artists from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Venice Arts gallery. Open through April 30, 2011. Picturing Health visually explores both the strengths and challenges of 8 Central and Southern California communities as seen through the eyes of teens. http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/02/street-smarts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-3906147685032394465Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:36:00 +00002011-02-23T22:36:21.326-08:003Ddigital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationDoctorowengineeringindustrial revolutionmakersprototypingsci fitechiesRapid prototyping is a process of making models using synthetic materials fed into a 3D printer. The process brings the digital aspirations of 3D modeling out of the computer into everyday reality. Similar to the brush fire set off by the personal computer, 3D printing has set off a wave of "small manufacturing" by artists, designers, engineers, and craftspeople. Many see this as an opportunity http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/02/manufacturing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8673366444605848388Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:38:00 +00002011-02-22T08:47:30.089-08:00graffitiICALondonphotographystreet artLONDON WALLS PHOTO EXHIBITION - ICA Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Image via ICA Some of the UK's best streetart and graffiti photographers will display a selection of their photos tomorrow evening as part of the Shunt Live weekend at the ICA. The London Walls photography exhibition will feature pictures from Delete, NoLionsInEngland, Leeone102, HowAboutNo, Buddz909 and http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/02/london-walls-photo-exhibition-ica.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-1716638408280576597Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:34:00 +00002011-02-14T11:34:07.127-08:00 Training THE NEXT GENeration This landmark report sets out how the UK can be transformed into the world’s leading talent hub for video games and visual effects.At over £2 billion in global sales, the UK’s video games sector is bigger than either its film or music industries, and visual effects, the fastest growing component of the UK’s film industry, grew at an explosive 16.8 per cent http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/02/gamings-no-joke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-3565819066081821895Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:59:00 +00002011-01-31T17:02:34.521-08:00birdschildreneducation arts curriculum urban success trends youthenvironmentphotographyplasticspuget soundsanctuaryPhotographer Chris Jordon explores the debilitating role plastics play in the human and animal environment. The attached video explores an elementary school project based on his images. See the original pictures on Chris' website.http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/01/wasting-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-7700241394500832767Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:55:00 +00002011-01-21T11:57:26.084-08:00Jeanne Kelly a Parsons School of Design graduate student is raising funds for innovative forensic art thesis project.  http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2011/01/from-death-to-virtual-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-909916688040256538Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:48:00 +00002010-12-15T15:48:48.993-08:00 Doha, Qatar - December 8, 2010 - Chronicle of Higher of EducationIn Qatar, Educators From Around the World Talk About Change  By Ursula Lindsey photo by WISE Over 1,200 people who work in education across the world arrived this week in this small, oil-wealthy Persian Gulf emirate. The visitors, who are scattered across Doha's five-star hotels and attended to by squadrons of PR http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/12/global-ed-summit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-7038908786276253628Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:07:00 +00002010-12-02T10:13:49.477-08:00Sir Ken Robinson Looks at CHANGING THE EDUCATION PARADIGMa project of RSA Animate 2010RSA - 21st Century Enlightenment thersa.orghttp://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/12/divergent-thinking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-9100392207803500603Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:43:00 +00002010-11-16T14:43:08.760-08:00 From irvine.org 2010Why Linked Learning?Linked Learning addresses the fundamental challenges facing California’s system of high school education. Too often, traditional academic courses are not relevant to the lives and aspirations of many students. At the same time, vocational education often lacks the academic and technical rigor required for success in postsecondary education and http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/11/irvine-foundation-links-learning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8465448706762216327Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:38:00 +00002010-11-11T10:38:41.614-08:00digital education learning technology media schools classrooms transformationObama's New Digital Learning Plan Posted: November 11, 2010 Fred Belmont Math Teacher Albert Einstein Distinguished Education Fellow Education Secretary Arne Duncan unveiled the final version of the National Education Technology Plan on Tuesday -- proposals to use social networking, data collection and multi-media to get U.S. kids to learn more. According to Duncan, the plan -- almost two http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/11/tech-talk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-3871548548748321287Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:39:00 +00002010-10-30T15:39:43.483-07:00$30K W. Eugene Smith Grant Awarded to Darcy Padilla  PDN October 21, 2010 by Conor Risch American photographer Darcy Padilla received the 2010 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for “The Julie Project,” which examines AIDS, poverty and drug addiction in America. Padilla’s essay focuses on the life of Julie Baird, a subject she met in San Francisco in 1993 and photographed http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/10/stop-time-to-see.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-4749855624934020831Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:08:00 +00002010-10-29T16:13:59.085-07:00 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon is a practical guide to visitor participation. It's been described as "essential reading" by Elaine Heumann Gurian and Sebastian Chan, and Kathleen McLean calls it "an extraordinary resource" Why did I write this book? Over the past four years, there's been lots of discussion about the "why" of visitor participation, but in my opinion, http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/10/museum-inreach.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8514331824244727032Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:26:00 +00002010-10-14T13:26:24.866-07:00 Sketching a Future for The Brooklyn Museum THE NEW YORK TIMES Article by Robin PogrebinPhotos by Todd Heisler Published: August 5, 2010 THOUGH it resides in a prime example of traditional museum architecture — a Beaux-Arts building designed in 1893 by McKim, Mead & White — there is little stale or stodgy about the Brooklyn Museum. For more than a century the museum has been one of the http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/10/museum-of-tomorrow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8542401669521753155Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:04:00 +00002010-10-11T15:04:11.054-07:00 The Rise of Hip Hop and the Black FlightKCET - Departures 2010 By the end of the 1960's - and the Watts Uprising - African-Americans had abandoned the search for a racial Promise Land and had come to terms with the near impossible task of overcoming the physical, philosophical and economical barriers created by centuries of racism. For many African-Americans the West had become the http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/10/depart-and-displace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-8580042309140435519Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:33:00 +00002010-10-01T13:39:54.919-07:00SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted.by Malcolm GladwellThe New YorkerOCTOBER 4, 2010 ILLUSTRATION: SEYMOUR CHWAST At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/10/revolution-unmediated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-5676092609816904808Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:31:00 +00002010-09-22T14:31:57.362-07:00Barry Benepe: Mr. Greenmarket Jane Jacobs Medalist Barry Benepe is proud to be a born-and-bred New Yorker. The son of a linen importer, he grew up on Gramercy Park, walking daily under the Third Avenue El to attend Friends Seminary on Stuyvesant Square.In 1966, Barry organized demonstrations to have Central Park Drive closed to traffic on weekends. Galvanized by the success of their http://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/09/art-of-environment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937437723169074137.post-2767340880148041181Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:44:00 +00002010-09-20T19:44:37.799-07:00Rhee is likely to head for the door By Bill Turque Friday, September 17, 2010 The Washington Post Their long-awaited meeting is set for next week. But when Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and mayor-apparent Vincent C. Gray do finally sit down, it is increasingly likely that the discussion will focus on the terms of her disengagement from the D.C. school system rather than how she might stayhttp://i215radio.blogspot.com/2010/09/michelle-rhee-end-of-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0