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Repurposing a stick. What fun!

| Posted on: April 6th, 2010 | Categories: Art, Creativity, Design, Fun, Learning, Philosophy, Stories, Teaching, Technology, TPACK, Worth Reading | 3 Comments »
Other related posts and pages: |SITE08 Keynote YouTubed! | SITE 2011, the fun stuff | Is a lecture just a lecture? | Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech | Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion |

Teaching with technology, for me, is all about repurposing technology. Such repurposing requires creative play. Our presentation at SITE 2010 was around some creative micro- and macro-design tasks that can help foster such creative repurposing. I just came across this 1964 Jonathan Winters / Jack Paar video that makes the same point but in a far more interesting manner. Enjoy.

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As he said, “Here’s a stick…” he said, “Make me believe in something.”

[h/t Teachpaperless


| Posted on: April 6th, 2010
Other related posts and pages: |SITE08 Keynote YouTubed! | SITE 2011, the fun stuff | Is a lecture just a lecture? | Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech | Barriers to Innovation & Inclusion |


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3 Responses to “Repurposing a stick. What fun!”

  1. Punya Mishra Says:
    April 8th, 2010 at 11:13 am

    I mentioned this video to my colleague Patrick Dickson and as it turns out he is a huge fan of Jonathan Winter and sent me a huge collection of links. I include them below, for your enjoyment, dear reader.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfSsV6EjgE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6BIpU_Lzxg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-W8WVm7-Cg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILLc03tNtFE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gIFU8jjeg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbgxZFUF9E

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwWDa1xPTPA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwWDa1xPTPA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_EumVonZcQ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QuCvkZgPU

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtQD7DoLo4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMG5B-Lwokw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTgzZb-VVs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDXjZ2wLxw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra5xRCVnv9k

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtbR2UtLOf0

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeqL65VlChk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9T8i4FkNVo

  2. It’s the pedagogy, teacher. « Why isn’t the future what it used to be? Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 7:18 am

    [...] much as what you (the teacher and/or students) do with the tool. Along these lines, the concept of repurposing resonates with [...]

  3. Steve Williams Says:
    July 28th, 2010 at 2:09 am

    You have to love those old time videos.

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