(these are listed as written on the board, without correction or editing. Please feel free to edit any descriptions if you feel it doesn't really explain what you meant)
- Socrates Cafe
- Improv / Comedy
- Game-ification (e.g. degrees of separation between two unrelated concepts)
- Creative Day (free time to explore)
- Less subjects deemed useless
- Teach inside public gardens & museums
- Interactive labs
- Video Learning
- Soul Nourishment (yoga/meditation/nutrition etc...)
- Practical Knowledge (food, electricity, water etc...)
- Community Learning Center (shared resources)
- Kung-Fu
- Aesthetic Learning (stimulating environments)
- Art & Science (more interdisciplinary classes)
- Relaxing Environments
- Zero-Gravity (less pressure on cells and synapses)
- Teach Emotional Intelligence (E.Q.)
- Group students by Ability not Age
- Hans-on Learning
- Control Brain Synapses (using electricity, chemicals etc...)
- Test Students by their Creations (let them demonstrate their understanding)
- Mirror Exercises (re-think language and descriptions)
- Eliminate all test Except the Final
- Reverse Simon-Says Exercises
To my way of thinking, improv comedy is an extreme test of one's creative abilities. You have to be able to think under stress and time limitations. Certainly, just writing comedy with no time constraints in itself is a great creative exercise and accomplishment. Of course, not everything that passes for comedy these days is really good or particularly creative. But there is some really good work out there. One of my favorites is Seinfeld.
ReplyDeleteJim Young aka "Lao Yang" (My Chinese friends call me Lao Yang. It translates literally as "Old Young." :-)
If you haven't already, Check out Mitch Hedburg. He uses a form of comedy that really rang a bell with something Carl said in class about how creative people see something different in the mundane that is funny, sad, beautiful, etc.
ReplyDeleteUsing Rap to teach business lessons:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/technology/blogger-uses-rap-to-teach-pithy-business-lessons.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26