My guest post for lauraroeder.com, “Improv Tips for Entrepreneurs”, dropped today. Use improv comedy skills to boost your creative output - even on your own!
Give it a read & let me know what you think.
- Jay
| — | Frank Barron |
Decades late, but we’ll take it!
“The Modern Educator Is Not a Teacher”: Updating Learning for the 21st Century
Why do classrooms and schools operate almost the same way they did 100 years ago? A group of middle schoolers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area began asking themselves this question during a class discussion of Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game. More importantly, they began to wonder, “Could children, using the internet, have a dramatic impact on the world around them? Could they influence public opinion, and make a mark on their world?” Thus began “Education Evolution,” a class video project that brings a student perspective to what’s going wrong in the modern classroom, and offers up ideas of how it can be fixed.
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I am offering the new Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, improv training for Chicago city employees of all levels - free of charge.
Follow me on Twitter @jay_olson and please also Tweet Mayor @rahmemanuel telling him what a great idea it is to empower Chicago with new ideas about teamwork, creativity and flexibilty.
What if he says yes? And then other cities follow his lead? And states?
I believe in the power of our homegrown artform, improvisation. I believe in Chicago. I want the whole world to be better for my sweet baby boy.
NEW MAYOR. NEW CHALLENGES. NEW ERA.
Thanks,
- Jay
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Randy Nelson, Pixar(via jonathanmoore) |
| — | Chauncey Depew |
The degree to which this kid looks (and acts!) like me at that age is amazing. Let’s party, y’all!
legospaceship:
winner, best gif.
| — | Play Power: How to Turn Around Our Creativity Crisis – an excellent read by Lara Seargeant Richardson in The Atlantic (via curiositycounts) |
| — | John Keats |
Quit beating yourself up. Quit beating yourself up. Quit. Beating. Yourself. Up.
Excellent ideas! I’d also add, ‘Take an improv class’.
This is my bible. Apparently, I just found religion.
