It was engaging as a parent and spoke honestly about the nature of a parents concerns and worries.  The interview lead me to the blog and I got even more insight from it.

This interview with Bunmi helped me realize that if I don’t make it to all of those “magical” places, my children will not suffer and struggle as an adult because of it!

video games are overtaking some of those “get out in the yard and come up with something to do” moments.

Give children the time to find their own fun

Allow your child to be bored,

Exploring Your Backyard with Your Children.

Many of them were just cutouts of random runners that didn’t really add much to the story being told.

it would be a great place to connect with the creator of this video as well as others videos.

This video was well developed and looked very professional.

he’s a runner and this is probably something he was actually interested in creating.

I think his artistic identity was really shown.

I ran into this short video which caught my attention because of the unique way it is told.

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ovies Portraying Schizotypal Personality Disorder Traits

Escape To Fantasy - Taking an imaginary excursion to a happier, more hopeful place.

Chaos Manufacture - Unnecessarily creating or maintaining an environment of risk, destruction, confusion or mess.

Anger - People who suffer from personality disorders often feel a sense of unresolved anger and a heightened or exaggerated perception that they have been wronged, invalidated, neglected or abused.

suffers

Most people will experience or exhibit a few of the above criteria from time to time. This does not make a person STPD.

avoid relationships out of fear

Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar.

Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, over elaborate, or stereotyped).

bodily illusions.

is inconsistent with subcultural norms

five (or more)

reduced capacity for close relationships

deficits

A pervasive pattern

Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference).

it gave some conflicting information

DIY came from the UK and counterculture is more US based and opposes social and cultural norms.

This reading was slightly less engaging than other reading that we have done.

Overall I am still a bit confused about this week’s reading and fully grasping the DIY culture but I will continue to look for answers and maybe reading the other’s reflections will help me grasp this concept.

identity within a community

With DIY identity is a large piece in that you create and portray who you want to be and what you stand for

how it started as a home improvement term for people who didn’t want to pay high dollar to have something done around the house.

I think it would have been more engaging and easier to focus if she talked a little bit slower.

She gave a voice to her view as well as sharing her own previous confusion about the terms

Man, I thought I talked fast.

real life examples of how the different sides reacted to animal treatment and what it really means to be on the side of rights or welfare.

I feel that when writing a comparison of terms it is important to back it with research.

After watching the story I have decided that I am actually more on the animal welfare side.

animal welfare and animal rights

younger digital story tellers to help flesh out my own thoughts regarding the use of digital story telling in the classroom.

While it is short, the story is told with an effective economy.

You could hear the sadness as she described her feelings of being lost.

I felt that overall it all worked together.

While some would say that this topic was a bit juvenile, I could easily see my middle school students identifying with it.

fear of risk-taking

I'm looking at change, transformation and risk-taking.

chool districts adopting scripted curriculum, and the pressures of school accountability and data.

I know that I can continue to work hard to design lessons that meet curriculum demands while being as hands-on and student driven as possible.

students had positive feelings toward the program and found the lessons fun and engaging.

With the current demands of data, rigor, and standardized testing, it’s hard to find time, or approval for PBL.

project based learning.

can help to activate their background knowledge and help to make learning more meaningful, and hopefully more interesting.

Eccentricity is not and should not be a privilege; it is a trait common to all humans, albeit in different levels and forms.

Do stereotypical expectations about art and artists influence both the public’s judgment and the artists’ behavior?

People seem to brush off someone’s odd behavior if that someone is either rich or a genius.

One’s work may convey a message which is different and odd, but as soon as one behaves differently, it is perceived as unnecessary and strange.

the way we perceive art is not only influenced by the quality of art itself, but also the perceived degree of the artist’s eccentricity

he used to carry found roadside stones on his head.

he eccentricity group was presented with a picture of an unkempt, disheveled man.

the “crowd” expects creative individuals to behave unusually, their once unconventional behavior is now a part of a stereotype.

“unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”

It is a delightfully simple and effective definition that has been used in a figurative sense only for the last three hundred years.

“out of the center”

people indeed seem to value artwork higher, and to enjoy it more, if the artist in question displays unconventional and eccentric behavior.

Or is it that the society perpetuates the stereotype, so Dali’s casual stroll with an anteater is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Maybe it was just an artist being eccentric, because that is what they do.

creative work has been accomplished at the expense of square-peg feelings of alienation and ostracism

Square pegs (and octagonal pegs with conical appendages) no longer have to work so hard at fitting in.

put employees through creativity training programs.

The ascendancy of innovative technology as a key factor in economic growth has elevated creativity from merely a positive trait to a highly sought-after commodity in the global market

“I don’t feel like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. I feel like an octagonal peg with conical appendages.”

This vulnerability may allow the highly creative person access to ideas and thoughts that are inaccessible to those of us with less porous mental filters.

Work from our lab indicates that other cognitive factors, such as high IQ and high working-memory capacity, enable some people to process and mentally manipulate extra information without being overwhelmed by it.

These findings support the theory that cognitive disinhibition may be affected by genetic variations and that it may be one factor that predisposes an individual to both creative thought and eccentricity.

Several studies have linked gene variations that are associated with the neurotransmitter dopamine to both creativity and eccentricity

that alpha activity focuses attention inward, whereas the gamma burst coincides with the arrival of the solution into conscious awareness.

his interpretation explains the tendency of creative people to focus on their inner lives,

creative people were allowing more information into their conscious awareness during creative work.

We think that the reduction in cognitive inhibition allows more material into conscious awareness that can then be reprocessed and recombined in novel and original ways, resulting in creative ideas.

When conscious awareness is overpopulated with unusual and unfiltered stimuli, it is difficult not to focus attention on that inner universe.

The ability to use cognitive disinhibition in a creative way depends on the presence of additional cognitive abilities associated with a high level of functioning.)

Cognitive disinhibition is also likely at the heart of what we think of as the aha! experience. During moments of insight, cognitive filters relax momentarily and allow ideas that are on the brain’s back burners to leap forward into conscious awareness, in the same manner that bizarre thoughts surface in the mind of the psychotic individual.

Reduced LI appears to increase the amount of unfiltered stimuli reaching our conscious awareness and is associated with offbeat thoughts

Cognitive disinhibition is the failure to ignore information that is irrelevant to current goals or to survival.

certain cognitive mechanisms that may underlie eccentricity could also promote creative thinking, however

not only do highly creative people display more of the traits associated with schizotypy but that the combination of creativity and schizotypy tends to run in families, again pointing toward a genetic component.

creative individuals tend to score higher on scales of schizotypal personality than less creative individuals.

The Kinney group also made a new discovery: some of their control subjects who did not have a family history of schizophrenia met the profile for schizotypal personality—and they too scored higher for creativity than other control subjects.

chizotypal individuals may inherit the unconventional modes of thinking and perceiving associated with schizophrenia without inheriting the disease itself.

They are often very high functioning, talented and intelligent.

The schizotypal diagnosis grew out of large epidemiological studies in which researchers noticed that the relatives of indi­viduals diagnosed with schizophrenia were more likely to exhibit odd behaviors and beliefs than relatives of those not afflicted with schizophrenia

social anhedonia (a preference for solitary activities—Emily Dickinson, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton, for example, favored work over socializing),

To measure creativity, researchers may look at an individual’s record of creative achievements, his or her involvement in creative activities or ability to think creatively (for example, to come up with new uses for ordinary household items).

attributed this behavior to the same hereditary “degeneration” that marked violent criminals.

creativity and depression

increased acceptance of the latter.

how the brain filters incoming information

creativity and eccentricity often go hand in hand,

These individuals often see themselves as different and unable to fit in.

dispenses its own currency in units of pi.

openly licensed textbook,

Education is, first and foremost, an enterprise of sharing. In fact, sharing is the sole means by which education is effected. If an instructor is not sharing what he or she knows with students, there is no education happening.

Since the invention of the Internet, copyright law has been “strengthened” to further restrict the Internet’s copying and sharing capabilities.

creativity and control.

the ownership of content and the ownership of data.

The district proposal would have prevented its teachers from selling their materials online.

many observers speculated that the district wanted “a piece of the action.”

are properties of the Board of Education even if created on the employee’s or student’s time and with use of their materials.”

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for some reason I thought it included “porch”, so my metaphor is “wrong”?)

That’s the Field of Dreams approach of Putting it On the Web and Calling it Done.

we do and should do, develop our own definition, rather than abiding by someone elses.

The whole idea is to raise awareness