by atmara | Oct 13, 2016 | Creativity, Inspiration, TED, TED Talks
According to TED.com: “At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves — while learning basic principles of science and design.”
“Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor and popularizer of science for kids. Creating simple toys out of trash and everyday goods, he illustrates principles of science and design in a memorably hands-on fashion. He works at the Children’s Science Centre in Pune, India.”
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Oct 10, 2016 | Art, Mandala Coloring, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
Today I have Free Mandala Coloring Pages by Monday Mandala for those of you who love to color mandalas. These are really stunning designs. Below you will find a sample of a few and you can download them and more at https://mondaymandala.com/m
Blue Garden by Monday Mandala
Download the coloring page here: https://mondaymandala.com/m/blue-garden
Four Nobel Truths by Monday Mandala
Download the coloring page here: https://mondaymandala.com/m/four-noble-truths
There are many more to choose from so please visit the site. You can also find Monday Mandala at:
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Monday Mandala would not be possible without the help of their illustrators listed below:
Hamdi R., Surabaya, Indonesia
Anoosha G., Karachi, Pakistan
Varda K., Kanpur, India
Sasha S., New Mexico, United States
Murray W., Scotland, United Kingdom
Angela F., Northern Territory, Australia
Tabby B., Kentucky, United States
Angela R., Toronto, Canada
Happy coloring!
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Oct 6, 2016 | Creativity, Inspiration, TED, TED Talks, Thriving
According to TED.com: “Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.”
“Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TED Talk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”
Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
