New interview on creativity for Google Quarterly. Hope you find it interesting:  www.thinkwithgoogle.co.uk/quarterly/creativity/the-educator.html

New interview just posted with Author2Author on writing, language, the Element and education:

 
 
Hear the interview on Blog Talk Radio.

I really enjoyed this interview with Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press. Watch the 3-part video interview, filmed backstage at UCSB Arts & Lectures series:

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I was asked to provide the closing statement to the Learning Without Frontiers Conference, held in London on 26th January 2012. Here are some thoughts on leading the learning revolution:

For more about Learning Without Frontiers, visit their website at www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com.

Below is a brief excerpt from an article I recently wrote for the Huffington Post, along with a link to the full article:

Science is now discovering what artists have long understood: that nurturing our feelings is vital to the quality of our lives and that intellect and feeling are intimately connected. For the past 300 years the dominant view in Western culture has been that intelligence is mainly to do with certain sorts of logic and reason. This view evolved through the European Enlightenment and established science and a particular sort of rationalism as the main sources of intellectual authority. The achievements of this worldview have been spectacular, including the explosive growth of technologies and unprecedented advances in medicine, in communications and in our understanding of the physical universe …

Read the full article on the Huffington Post

This series of short videos from Microsoft shows how digital technologies are transforming learning and opportunities to learn for students around the world. Understanding the nature and significance of these opportunities is part of what I mean by the education revolution.