For more than 25 years, Eric Maisel (the godfather of creativity training) has been looking at the realities of the creative life and the make-up of the creative person in books like Fearless Creating, Creativity for Life, Coaching the Artist Within, and lots of others.
In The Van Gogh Blues, Eric explores the idea that meaning [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘relevance’
February 25, 2008
High School Depression–or Meaning Crisis? Eric Maisel Shares Tips For Students Seeking Relevance
January 25, 2008
Is College Relevant? That Depends…..
Patrick Riccards over at Eduflack serves up a great post here about the relevance of a college education.
He points to an article in yesterday’s USA Today in which Mary Beth Marklein wrote of a new Association of American Colleges and Universities study of 301 business leaders. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-01-22-graduate-assessment_N.htm
According to her piece, the majority of employers believe that [...]
January 15, 2008
Overachievers Are Average: The NEW Way For High School Students to Get Attention
One of the blogs I enjoy reading these days (among many) is Student 2.0. Recently, I read a post by a senior in high school named Stacy called “Average Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore” in which she gives us a look at her own long list of accomplishments and lets us know that she’s practically [...]
November 27, 2007
Sloan Report Shows Online Students Could Use A (Virtual) Kick in The Pants
It’s not that I think online learning is going to replace face-to-face class time in all cases. It’s just that it is becoming an accepted part of a relevant education.
You get to choose how much of your education you get online. For some, it will be a large percentage. For others, just a class or [...]
October 16, 2007
Car Talk: Click And Clack Take On Education
I love Car Talk. And I don’t even own a car! I love the idea that these two brothers have created such a devoted following by simply sitting around and joking on the radio while diagnosing oddball car noises and funky starters. They are wonderfully irreverent and have a great time while helping people solve [...]
October 15, 2007
Great Video: A Vision Of Students Today
Sooooo….is technology the solution to our education woes? Or is it creating a whole new layer of challenges?
How do college students learn today? In what ways is technology allowing them to learn more?
What’s really going on in the college classroom?
Hmmm. You’d better watch this video.
My take? Technology is most useful in [...]
