On Shaking Things Up: Art and the Role of Surprise

“Imagination, more than any other capacity, breaks through ‘the inertia of habit.’” (Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, p.2 quoting John Dewey)
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” Pablo Picasso
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor

A few years after college–after following the temple [...]

Free flow: watching & learning from my students

While I’m sorting out my problems with archived posts’ broken links (argh), wrestling with upcoming talks, and complaining about Vermont’s never-ending winter, I thought it would do me and you good to move to a more positive outlook and point to some extraordinary work my students are doing with Web-based practices. (This is [...]