According to a recent Adobe creativity study, 88% of U.S. professionals believe that creativity should be built into standard curricula. Companies are looking for more than graduates who can do specific tasks, they want employees who can also think differently and innovate. To be successful, students need an education that emphasizes creative thinking, communication and teamwork. And as Sir Ken Robinson concludes in this next video "Creativity is not an option, it's an absolute necessity."
At his lecture this week, Bill McKibben advised everyone to go see the new National Geographic Documentary:
Chasing Ice
Summary from Variety review:
The case for climate change is mounted in visually breathtaking yet conventional fashion in "Chasing Ice." Following the exhaustive efforts of photographer-scientist James Balog to capture irrefutable evidence of the world's glaciers in retreat, first-time helmer Jeff Orlowski's documentary supplies a heroic human-interest angle on global warming that's ultimately less remarkable than the grandeur of its arctic imagery. Emphasis on the picture's must-see time-lapse visuals could help National Geographic's Sundance pickup overcome the usual theatrical-docu hurdles before edutainment/ancillary payoff.
"Chasing Ice's" raison d'etre is easily the stunning EIS photography of glaciers receding worldwide; the painstakingly captured images are presented in time-lapse montages that proceed with a slight jerkiness, showing the gradual but inexorable reduction of enormous ice blankets into mere patches of white. Graphs, diagrams and other visual aids comparing glacier sizes from one year to the next are deftly deployed, lending credence to the alarming revelation that there has been as much glacier reduction in the past decade as in the preceding century."
Watch the trailer:
Currently playing in Evanston and at the Music Box Theater.
I attended his speech on his 21 city tour "Do the Math" in Chicago tonight. Most of his program is encapsulated in this podcast which aired today on Jerome McDonnell's Worldview program.
Listen to this program explaining how serious the Climate Change issue is:
Worldview 11.28.12
He's the author of
Eaarth and a new title the New Trier Library will purchase:
Librarian Linda Straube brought this Huffington Post story to my attention because she immediately thought of IGSS students who would be likely to participate in a project like this:
Hurricane Sandy Gas Station Crisis Sees Solution From New Jersey High School Students via kwout
Click to read about how high school members of IMSOCIO, a youth community mapping initiative to empower communities, who launched a crowdsourced map that locates about 100 open gas stations in the New York-New Jersey area. Stations are identified by green, red or yellow pins -- each representing an open, sold out or charging station.
An impressive amount of work done by students who care about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on their region!
Franklin High School students are receiving constant emails and Tweets supporting their gas station map project; this public support is facilitating their real-time updates. The IMSOCIO team is also taking tips via Twitter.
You can send them support by following their project @IMSOCIO2012 on Twitter.
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