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Amy Burvall

Apr 26, 2018
4 min

#rawthought: One Lens to Rule Them All

I often bolt out of bed thinking of things that seem quite sensible at 4am but perhaps not so much at 3:45 in the afternoon. I’m not sure about this idea, but I’m going to give it a go. It’s basically a structure – a lens through which one can look everything new. That’s getting to the ” – ness” of it but what does it mean for learners? Could teachers use this with students? Could leaders use this with their teams? WOW This is, of course, what strikes you. It’s about noticing

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Critical Creativity for Grownups: Teachers Try INTENTIONtheBook

Amy Burvall

Oct 3, 2017
3 min

Critical Creativity for Grownups: Teachers Try INTENTIONtheBook

When Dan Ryder and I wrote Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom we knew in the back of our minds that the first three “framing” chapters of the book – about creativity and how it works – are really for everyone. You don’t have to work in the education sphere to get some takeaways or (hopefully) be inspired. We also knew that the activities we describe in the catalogue could indeed, as we claim be relevant in any curriculum with any age group. As we assert Creativi

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Thinking Like an Artist: Be Porous, Push Past, and Play

Amy Burvall

Sep 29, 2017
4 min

Thinking Like an Artist: Be Porous, Push Past, and Play

What seemed like ages ago I did my first TEDx talk – TEDxHonolulu 2011 – with my creative partner from “History for Music Lovers”, Herb Mahelona. It was really tricksy because we didn’t live on the same island and therefore couldn’t practice together until the day before the event, each having memorized our respective parts of the script and practicing with voice recordings of the other punctuated by pauses. To be honest I thought I’d never do another one until several months

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#rawthought: On Ditching the (Dangerous) Dichotomy Between Content Knowledge and Creativity

Amy Burvall

Aug 6, 2017
6 min

#rawthought: On Ditching the (Dangerous) Dichotomy Between Content Knowledge and Creativity

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life…” – Pablo Picasso I’ve taken this completely out of context (Picasso was alluding to work/life balance and loving your day job), but I think it’s applicable nonetheless. I love playing with dichotomy as a concept – particularly a visual one…in fact I’ve got a few exercises such as going on a metaphor hunt and photographing juxtapositions like “old and new”. I snapped this in Oxford, England…old Tudor building and a guy on a smartpho

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Meaning from Madmen: Takeaways from the PBS Documentary “Art and Copy”

Amy Burvall

May 9, 2016
11 min

Meaning from Madmen: Takeaways from the PBS Documentary “Art and Copy”

Last night I serendipitously came across this great documentary on the great “advertising creatives” of the last 60 years. “Art and Copy”, directed by Doug Pray, weaves together interviews from the people whose work became, as Shakespeare once said, “familiar as household names” but whose own names remain obscure to the average citizen. from http://www.theinspiration.com/ These are the people who developed iconic marketing campaigns such as “Think Different”, “Got Milk?”, “Wh

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#rawthought: What If We…Ditch “Best Practices”?

Amy Burvall

Mar 25, 2016
3 min

#rawthought: What If We…Ditch “Best Practices”?

When was the last time you were asked to share “best practices”? This phrase came up yesterday for me in a Twitter chat, and it suddenly dawned on me that I take issue with the term. It sounds too authoritative and stagnant, with shades of “expert” at which I tend to cringe. I totally get the motive- we want to hear from people who have had some degree of success in fill-in-the-blank. We want to know their secrets..what “works”…what we can “count on”. We are drawn to “proven

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#getsmART spotlight: Lessons from Andy Warhol

Amy Burvall

Feb 24, 2016
1 min

#getsmART spotlight: Lessons from Andy Warhol

In honor of the day Warhol passed away, I created this little film. It’s an extension of my #getsmART: Lessons from the Artists keynote I presented at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities. I’ve added more images and points, and this of course is only about Warhol. I’ll be doing more, but if you haven’t seen the Pablo Picasso one, please check it out. (I really need a better mic) #art #creativity #teaching #lessons #life #andywarhol #getsmart #pedagogy #picasso #amybu

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Amy Burvall

Nov 8, 2015
1 min

#getsmART spotlight: Pablo Picasso

I’ve been waiting to make these “breakout videos” spotlighting the artists from my “#getsmART: Lessons from the Artists” keynote for a while, but just haven’t had the time. However, October 25 marked Picasso’s birthday, so I felt utterly compelled to whip this out. The process was: use my keynote slides to create the Quicktime, self-playing video import into iMovie and record a voiceover I plan to these for the other artists I discussed in the keynote, which you can view HERE

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A Fine Time for Rhyme (aka the SAMR Remix)

Amy Burvall

Nov 18, 2014
3 min

A Fine Time for Rhyme (aka the SAMR Remix)

The other day I decided to remix (no big shocker there, considering my track record), the brainchild of Dr. Ruben Puentedura – Harvard Technology Fellow and founder of Hippasus, an education consulting firm aimed at transformative applications of technology in learning. The thing I’ve always wanted to switch up, despite the fact that it completely makes sense and I admire his utter brilliance is the model of tech integration known as S.A.M.R. First off, I must admit have a p

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Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)

Amy Burvall

Dec 28, 2020
6 min

Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)

This year I decided to once again use the digital Advent calendar creation site https://tuerchen.com/ However, I noticed that they don't...

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Amy Burvall

Nov 29, 2020
1 min

The #globalthankswondercut project

If you were to write a love letter to the world what would it be? A Crowdsourced Creativity Project In the midst of this global pandemic...

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