A recent tweet in yet another fascinating conversation with the Nemeticists...
There is a saying that the best place to hide something is in plain view. I think we miss a lot of plain views, important things within our classrooms because they are all folded up. Just like the comfort of a favorite blanket that's sitting nicely folded on the armrest of the couch, our students' creative abilities aren't realized until we unfold them, and boy do we need to unfold them. I believe the viability of our collective human future depends on it. Schools are the best places to nurture the creative wonders of children... our gifts to the future. We have to package them well.
The shrinking world is throwing more curveballs at us every day. Increasingly complex social, emotional, and cognitive challenges confront us in an ironic world where surging technology has made every corner of the globe accessible to us, whether in person or through a cyber-connection. At the same time, our exposure to each other's social, emotional, and cognitive realities has never been more prominent; our collective worlds are growing. As the perceived distance between us is reduced, we are now presented with glorious opportunities to harvest consciousness and be more attuned to each other's creative purpose; to collaborate on solving problems together. Educators need to focus on this creative purpose by ubiquitously supporting the development of creativity in kids.
Unfolding-a word with such great connotation as applied to nemetics- its what has always been, just "unfolded."
flickr photo via lorraine santana
The shrinking world is throwing more curveballs at us every day. Increasingly complex social, emotional, and cognitive challenges confront us in an ironic world where surging technology has made every corner of the globe accessible to us, whether in person or through a cyber-connection. At the same time, our exposure to each other's social, emotional, and cognitive realities has never been more prominent; our collective worlds are growing. As the perceived distance between us is reduced, we are now presented with glorious opportunities to harvest consciousness and be more attuned to each other's creative purpose; to collaborate on solving problems together. Educators need to focus on this creative purpose by ubiquitously supporting the development of creativity in kids.