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Story Starters—A Deck of Cards for the Young Imagination

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In our book Imagination First, Eric Liu and I write about Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards created by musician Brian Eno in 1975: “Each of the over one hundred cards contains what Eno calls ‘a worthwhile dilemma’—a concise, cryptic prompt….meant to give direction.” Today, I bring news of another novel deck of cards, this [...]

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Robots, Learning, and Play

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Here’s an imaginative idea: Latitude, an international research consultancy, asked 348 children around the world, “What if robots were a part of your everyday life—at school and beyond?” The kids were to answer in the form of an illustrated short story. Now the results of the Robots @ School study are in, and they reveal [...]

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Lincoln Center Institute’s Capacities for Imaginative Learning

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Linda Miles

A growing number of blog visitors have been seeking information about Lincoln Center Institute‘s Capacities for Imaginative Learning. LCI has created the Capacities for Imaginative Learning as a framework for student learning, applicable to the Common Core Standards across the curriculum. The Capacities operate as both strategies for, and outcomes of, study according to LCI’s [...]

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Give Them Room to “Just Do the Thing”

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Linda Miles

High school history teacher Diana Laufenberg has witnessed some amazing learning—and learned to step back and allow her students to fail along the way. In this brief TED Talks video, Laufenberg discusses how profound changes in the information landscape have altered education, opening up opportunities for experiential, student-centered learning focused on exploration and creativity. During [...]

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Notes from an Imagination Advocate, Part Three

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Coming of age in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I occasionally got the impression that certain members of the anti-establishment community thought that they were the first people ever to protest a government, and that their methods were utterly unique and had no historical precedent. In retrospect, I think some of the radical movements of the [...]

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