Tag: creativity
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November 29, 2012
Here is a life-sized elephant constructed entirely of poems (haikus and diamantes) written by second and third graders, and inspired (in part) by a few odd lines from The Magician’s Elephant: “The dimensions of an elephant are most impressive. The dimensions of an elephant are impressive in the extreme.” Some of the students who had…
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April 12, 2012
From Tin House magazine (Volume 13, Number 3)–an article by Ken Iagnemma entitled “How to Build a Robot in Four Easy Steps” “Creations do not emerge from their creators exhibiting perfect form and function. In fact, complex creations never achieve perfection. The myth of perfection was invented by naysayers . . . to cripple creativity.”…