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Our Fingers Are Our Tools - Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
Rachelle Doorley • Tinkerlab: A Hands-On Guide for Little Inventors
Previous eras of creativity have mostly looked a bit like sculpting. A sculptor takes a block of material and carves it, slowly but surely, into shape. Nothing happens without her hand. Even when an assistant is involved, the sculptor pores over the project, because their human input is important at every point of the process. So too with writing, ... See more
Capability Blindness and the Future of Creativity
Papert was fascinated (and challenged) to observe a depth of engagement, thoughtfulness, creativity and collaboration that he had never seen in maths. He came to see that a big part of the difference lay in working with their hands to craft something ‘real’ that they could think and talk about as it developed. The students were not just ‘mindlessly
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