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The Illiteracy Of Play | Pecha Kucha Night Christchurch

Another 20 slides x 20 seconds per slide.

Here’s my PechaKucha Night Christchurch presentation on the illiteracy of play—how we as adults have forgotten to cultivate and use the best learning instrument on the planet…

It draws on experiences from my youth work days right through to developing and delivering social media training for folks like BBC, UNICEF and The Gates Foundation.

Exploring ideas and case studies of how playing is the root of all education and also innovation.

This was a remix of my never-delivered TEDxOverlake talk.

Big thanks to the exact and fabulous PechaKucha Night Christchurch organisers for the opportunity to participate, the other fab speakers and the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu for hosting/sponsoring (plus camerapeeps Tim and Elaena).

So do you think adults have lost the ability to play? Become illiterate to it’s power in our own learning and day-to-day work?

Let loose in the comments… you’re not that reserved on Twitter!

THANKS / REFERENCES:
Steve Keil TED Talk
Divide
Button Theory
Playing Is Learning By Stealth
Stealth Image
LEGO Serious Play
Iceland / Facebook
Gamification
Spare Change
Challenge
Reinventing Money
Make Something Awesome
Dead Fish
Twitter Sketch
Grading Laughter
Cultivate
As always, I try to reference everything used but if anything is yours and it’s not suitably credited let us know and will certainly rectify.
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Artistic Freedom Versus Power

ricky blog

“It’s not about power. It’s about artistic freedom. And if it is about power, it’s a power you can give to yourself anytime you want. If you can’t be bought, you’re the richest man in the world. I just always feel if you can make something from scratch you’ll always be OK. Growing up, one of my favourite quotes was “Ability is a poor man’s wealth.” John Wooden said that. And I tried to prove him right.”

From the insightful pen / blog of Ricky Gervais.

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Next Year Baby | 2012

Every year the ‘noise’ which accompanies the closing of another 365 days and the embracing of a new set populates the blogosphere.

Folks review, take stock, gaze back, reach forward, look inwards, hope outwards… we surround ourselves in pledges as aggrandizement.

2012 will be a year I continue to:

The new focus will be to:

…but most importantly: DO MORE!

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford

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Gnat Gnat | Apologies

Gnat Gnat

Aggregating online activity whilst simplifying the effort and concentrating the goodness (or something like that).

Gnat Gnat was my digital scrapbook.

It’s tagline served a bigger idea of how even the smallest things can affect things.

It existed as a dump for all the amazing brain melting stuff I found following digital breadcrumbs and was hosted on the fab little blogging platform Posterous.

It’s mouth-watering content and future activity will now be folded into this blog (sorry if you’ve been getting many and random updates through your email / rss subscriptions as currently making good all the blog posts over the coming weeks).

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Little Dots x 3,200,000 | Focus On The Little Things

Forget the grand gestures. The bold statements. The big plays.

Sure they sometimes get the limelight / ‘wow’ people / win the game but it’s the end you’re watching. Without the incremental stages, the small advances, the tiny steps, the crescendo would’ve never have been achieved.

Never undervalue the tiniest continual effort and it’s place in the larger narrative of your goals / life.

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Kill Them With Kindness | UC Davis Pepper Spraying

The revolution will be streamed.

You’ve probably seen the above video from the University of California, Davis Occupy Movement event.

However, have you seen what happened after the spraying?

Please watch the whole video and note:

  • how many video cameras / mobile phones / laptops / iPads etc are captured the action
  • no retaliation from the demonstrators
  • none of the police retreat and fantastic behaviour by the students after the spraying was featured by the mainstream media

If a picture is worth a thousand words then the above video is Artamène.

Change is afoot…

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