Elaborate Flower Arrangements by Lewis Miller Design Cascade From Fixtures of New York City Streets — from thisiscolossal.com
Against the Ream: An Expansive Exhibition Invites Thirteen Artists to Explore the Vast ‘Possibilities of Paper’ — Colossal — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes & various artists
It’s not often that something truly blows me away, but this is absolutely mind-blowing. This artist created an incredible stop-motion time-lapse!
Just think about the countless frames they had to shoot! ?
Source: @insta360 YouTube
Credit: ??????winga on BiliBili pic.twitter.com/O2W6eXxedQ— Nicolas Neubert (@iamneubert) June 25, 2023
The Master’s Pupil is a hand-painted video game informed by Monet’s artworks — from dezeen.com by Amy Peacock and Pat Naoum
Game developer Pat Naoum has launched a video game with backgrounds, creatures and scenery entirely painted by hand, which took seven years to complete.
Available on Nintendo Switch and Steam for Windows and Mac, The Master’s Pupil is a 12-level puzzle-adventure game that explores a painterly world through the eyes of French artist Claude Monet.
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The Master’s Pupil is the first game Naoum developed and took him seven years to complete.
Mystery Abounds in Lee Madgwick’s Uncanny Paintings of Derelict Buildings — from thisiscolossal.com Grace Ebert and Lee Madgwick
Also for another creative/fun item, see:
Photos of Everyday Activities Reveal the Humor of Perspective and Serendipitous Alignments — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Anthimos Ntagkas
On 07/07/2023,
in art, attention, career development, communities of practice, creativity, digital audio, Emotion, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, formal learning, ideas, informal learning, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning spaces, liberal arts, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, music, personalized/customized learning, project-based learning, society, sociology, story, storytelling, student-related, United States, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Recording Arts as Reengagement, Social Justice and Pathway — from gettingsmart.com
Key Points
- After a successful career as a recording artist, David “TC” Ellis created Studio 4 in St. Paul to spot budding music stars.
- It became a hangout spot for creative young people, most of whom had “dropped out of school due to boredom and a sense that school wasn’t relevant to their lives and dreams.”
- Ellis and colleagues then opened the High School for Recording Arts in 1998.
The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards Zeros In on Threats to Avian Life Amid the Climate Emergency — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
Exquisite Paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung Are an Ode to the Quaint Corner Stores of South Korea — from thisiscolossal.com by Lee Me Kyeoung and Grace Ebert
Artist Spotlight: April Kamunde — from booooooom.com
Luminous Creatures Haunt Darkened Landscapes in Hannu Huhtamo’s Dreamlike Light Paintings — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Hannu Huhtamo
On 06/29/2023,
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by Daniel Christian
Peanuts Sing Roundabout — from theawesomer.com; I hadn’t seen this yet…so for those of my generation, you might like this as well! 🙂
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by Daniel Christian
How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning — from edsurge.com by Christopher Sandoval
Excerpt:
My experience has taught me that if students do not believe their school is invested in activities and programs that reflect their community and culture, they will not feel a sense of belonging in the classroom, which will negatively impact student engagement and their ability to understand and appreciate cultural differences among one another.
Unfortunately, not every school believes the performing arts are worth the investment; if anything, the trend of school funding in the performing arts has been in sharp decline for some time. While student engagement continues to be a significant issue for classrooms across the country, I believe the performing arts can be an opportunity for schools to reimagine community engagement in schools and get students back on track.
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by Daniel Christian
101 creative ideas to use AI in education, A crowdsourced collection — from zenodo.org by Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abegglen, Marianna Karatsiori, & Antonio Martínez-Arboleda (Eds.); with thanks to George Veletsianos for this resource
As an example, here’s one of the ideas from the crowdsourced collection:
On a somewhat related note, also see:
Merlyn Mind launches education-focused LLMs for classroom integration of generative AI — from venturebeat.com by Victor Dey
Excerpt:
Merlyn Mind, an AI-powered digital assistant platform, announced the launch of a suite of large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for the education sector under an open-source license.
Designing courses in an age of AI — from teachinginhighered.com by Maria Andersen
Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
With generative AI, we have an incredible acceleration of change happening.
Maria Andersen
On 06/28/2023,
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by Daniel Christian
Virtual Production Primer — from provideocoalition.com by Damian Allen
Excerpt:
…use this handy guide to educate yourself on the terms and technologies at play in Virtual Production.
On somewhat related tangent, also see:
Below is an item regarding the upgrade to Midjourney, which is an example of generative AI that can convert natural language prompts into images.
It’s been less than 48 hours since MJ v5.2 was launched!
And AI Twitter has gone nuts over the new version.
Here are 15 examples + 6 Tutorials of the new v5.2?
(via the amazing @Merzmensch) pic.twitter.com/lz1WaFpEmE
— Rushik (@hey_rushik) June 25, 2023
An Accessible Treetop Walkway Gracefully Winds Through Norway’s Hamaren Activity Park — from thisiscolossal.com
Photos by Rasmus Hjortshøj, © EFFEKT
School of Visual Arts presents 10 senior thesis interior design projects — from dezeen.com
Resilience by Raymond Xie
An instrument for a city: An audio project filling one of London’s busiest roads with serene sounds — from inavateonthenet.net where Paul Milligan speaks to Nick Ryan, the artist responsible for VoiceLine.
An instrument for a city: An audio project filling one of London’s busiest roads with serene sounds
Why shouldn’t we have a piece of audio infrastructure as we do with lighting (lampposts) or seating, and use it to enable us to change the sound of a place, not once every 300 years but every second? We could transform the street using the sound of a rainforest into the sound of a river into the sound of voices.
From DSC:
A very interesting idea here. I can’t help but think there are applications of this type of thing within some of our learning spaces out there.
Mantra’s Immense Butterfly Murals Flutter Across Buildings and Walls — from thisiscolossal.com by Jackie Andres and Mantra
All images © Mantra
Web Design Inspiration (Examples) – Good Tools #7 — from goodtools.substack.com by Robin Good
70+ free inspirational collections showcasing over 55,000 best web design examples
A Veritable Aviary of Birds and Pollinators by The Paper Ark Are Small Enough to Perch on the Tip of a Finger — from thisiscolossal.com by Brace Ebert and Nayan Shrimali and Venus Bird
On 06/16/2023,
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by Daniel Christian
Teaching With Music: 5 Tips for Using it With Any Subject — from by Erik Ofgang
Tips for teaching with music as a helpful learning tool regardless of the subject from school social worker Sherena Small
Excerpt:
Teaching with music can enhance learning in almost any subject area, says Sherena Small, a school social worker at Champaign Unit 4 School District in Illinois.
“It’s just such a good way to enhance what kids are learning,” says Small, who uses hip-hop and other music to teach social-emotional learning skills, including empathy and active listening. Earlier this year, Nearpod recognized Small as an Educator of the Year for her innovative efforts using Nearpod’s Flocabulary tool to incorporate music into class.
Speaking of multimedia, also see:
And here’s another interesting item from Dr. Burns:
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by Daniel Christian
Why L&D should be at the forefront of the AI revolution — from managementtoday.co.uk by Bill Borrows
AI means that 50% of all employees will need reskilling or upskilling by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum.
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Ernst and Young dug a little deeper. “Today’s disruptive working landscape requires organisations to largely restructure the way they are doing work,” they noted in a bulletin in March this year. “Time now spent on tasks will be equally divided between people and machines. For these reasons, workforce roles will change and so do the skills needed to perform them.”
The World Economic Forum has pointed to this global skills gap and estimates that, while 85 million jobs will be displaced, 50% of all employees will need reskilling and/or upskilling by 2025. This, it almost goes without saying, will require Learning and Development departments to do the heavy-lifting in this initial transformational phase but also in an on-going capacity.
“And that’s the big problem,” says Hardman. “2025 is only two and half years away and the three pillars of L&D – knowledge transference, knowledge reinforcement and knowledge assessment – are crumbling. They have been unchanged for decades and are now, faced by revolutionary change, no longer fit for purpose.”
ChatGPT is the shakeup education needs — from eschoolnews.com by Joshua Sine
As technology evolves, industries must evolve alongside it, and education is no exception–especially when students heavily and regularly rely on edtech
Key points:
- Education must evolve along with technology–students will expect it
- Embracing new technologies helps education leverage adaptive technology that engage student interest
- See related article: AI tools are set to impact tutoring in a big way
My department asked me to give a brief talk about #GPT to them to help folks learn more about what’s going on. Here are my #tips in distilled form.
— Andrew Piper (@_akpiper) June 5, 2023
Welcome to the new surreal. How AI-generated video is changing film. — from technologyreview.com by Will Douglas Heaven
Exclusive: Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.
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BEST 40 AI artists you need to follow now?? pic.twitter.com/t7WiXORhE2
— Rushik (@hey_rushik) June 2, 2023
The Future Of Education – Disruption Caused By AI And ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence Series 3 Of 5 — from forbes.com by Nicole Serena Silver
Here are some ways AI can be introduced at various age levels