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In 8th grade I acquired two astounding sources – and in combining them, I thought I’d invented blacklight art.

Bob + Joe SwitzerBob + Joe Switzer:flourescent pigments

and their by-product:Day-Glo®

I brought one of my works to my 8th grade art teacher.She was not impressed.

She said “the best artworks humanity will ever create HAVE already been made, and the best we can do is copy the masterworks.”

If I we had Google in 1966, I could have told her that the man who founded the Day-Glo® factory was an art teacher.

Louis Prang

1824 -1909

So here we are in this great Edmund Catalog feeding frenzy.

We’re no longer merely building upon the past, we're lucky enough to build in real time. 

We have tools to build our future, in the present.

collaborate globally w/ students, govs, orgs, authorssummaries • share questions • write poems + haiku

discussions • micro-reviews • daily word games edit coherent stories based on pre-existing tweetscreate group fictional character • curate art showsstudents poll students • follow class trips virtually

ideas & quotes from historical figuresask experts questions • subscribe to #hashtags

responses to books + posts • retweet events • invitesbulletin boards • greeting cards • tests/quizzes

inventories + lists • slogans + chants • tweet chats

Twitter x 500 million

I wrote a blog post on a passionate educator who is building gardens for school kids living in urban food deserts. I didn’t invent the wheel; but ended up ‘tweenterviewing’ him to underscore how important Twitter is to his realizing these urgently needed gardens.

We all are IMPROV masters.

The minute we awake it's improv time. We've made a hundred unique, expressive choices all before we reach for our morning toothbrush (being sure not to live our precious lives on autopilot). 

With so many tools at our disposal, we become curators.

We’re digital hunter-gatherers.

25 TED Talks Perfect For Classrooms

Even the tools we ‘know’ can be retooled and stretched.

At a recent tech hackathon, my team used PowerPoint™ as our tool of choice. And we won. Don’t be afraid of pushing the limits of what you know.

Getting lostGetting lost tests

us.

135 million people are gaming taking tests for entertainment.

Leveraging this love of challenges can be transformative.

Make getting lost part of your practice as an educator.

(Take time to take elements out of context. Share more.)

So you can better help your students lose their way.

The world can’t wait to see what they’ll find. We won’t invent the wheel…

Look up: hippo rollers

But we certainly haven’t exhausted it’s possibilities.

1963 smiley face designer: Harvey Ball (paid $45)

references + links + credits: jamieleo.com/140edu

slides: slideshare.net/jleonyc

your favorite creative hybrids: #createtwit

keep in touch: @jleonycjamie@jamieleo.com

:)

IMAGE CREDITS

Edmond Scientific Catalog

Sea King helicopter, Royal Canadian Navyfrom collection of David Wall

psychedelic moiré poster detail: uncredited

tape dispenser: James Leo, aged 11, 1966

Louis Prang detail: William Merritt Chase

altered Prang packaging, c1965

Ecocentricblog.org screen grabs: © GRACE

school gardeners: Berkeley.net nutrition newsletter brush your teeth: Doug n Kristi Bermingham/Flickr

'Alice shrinks’: adapted by John Tenniel

wind farm: fieldsbh/Flickr

hippo water rollers: Imvubu Projects, Project H

Harvey Ball's Smiley Face: Ideafinder.com

THANKS

Dean Kephart

Jean Hunt

Peter Fahrni

K. Anna Moore

Robert Burns

Tami O'Neill

Kyle Rabin

Robert Harberts

Aimee Levine

colleagues at GRACE who lent their support

Howard Gardner, Benjamin Bloom, Robert Marzano!

STAT SOURCES

135 million people are gaming

source: IGN 2010

as many as 500 million Twitter users

source: Mediabistro / twopcharts.com