Crain’s Detroit Business is hosting a business forum on the topic of developing a Creative Corridor in downtown Detroit. The event takes place on Tuesday, November 3—Election Day—at downtown’s Double Tree Guest Suites.
This is an important discussion and quite timely given the day it takes place. I have watched carefully the candidates running for executive and legislative office in Detroit and I think the city will be well served by whoever ultimately wins leadership roles. There is a quality and caliber of emergent leadership in the city that has been absent for some years. Clearly Dave Bing is the favorite in the race but Tom Barrow has been quite effective in pushing into the public dialogue the value to the region when Detroit begins to recover—and the city WILL recover; albeit, it will be a different city. One more focused on earth friendly industries and concepts.
And it is for this reason that the Creative Corridor forum is an event of immense importance. Metro Detroit leaders have come to fully accept that it will be through a variety of creativity-based enterprises that the full recovery of the city and region will be able to commence in earnest.
For more information go to the following website that Crain’s has established that has a PDF formatted announcement about the event:
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/assets/pdf/BOBNovInvite.pdf
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
We've Just Scratched the Surface on Multi-Media Learning
Long before there was the mainstreaming of such words as multi-media
and multiple learning styles, I used an assortment of media from which to supplement my formal education. If I was watching a Humphrey Bogart movie where Bogie was the hero fighting Nazi spy rings here in the U.S., and words such as “fifth columnist” were being used, I promptly searched that phrase down in an encyclopedia or asked a favorite teacher for an official definition. [“Fifth Columnist”, by the way, referred to the spy network the Nazis had which extended in to major populated areas throughout the western world.]
I also used this method in a Black History course I took in high school. We had a paper to write on the topic of our favorite Black hero and I chose the Marvel Comics hero, the Black Panther. Also known as T’Challa, the Panther was king of a scientifically advanced African tribe who possessed the strength and agility of a panther. He was first introduced in The Fantastic Four magazine and went on to star in the Avengers and eventually a short lived book of his. Most important about the paper I wrote about him was that it forced me to think about how African American and African characters were presented in popular culture. T’Challa was, in fact, a rarity as most superheroes of color hailed from the Blaxiplotation mindset of being just a step above undereducated street thugs.
In later years I used this method of incorporating my learning from many multi-media environments to gain deeper understandings about everything from Albert Einstein to the Cold War.
And today, unlike any other time, we have at our disposal a broad swath of well researched, well documented media represented in the forms of the works of filmmakers Spike Lee and Ken Burns to just name a couple. One of my current favorites right now is “Mad Men,” which is the AMC hit that enthrallingly depicts the advertising industry during the late 1950s and early 1960s. I should also add that the internet now supplements all of our learning experiences and we've only scratched the surface in how this is being used. Certainly the explosion in online education is one of the more visible results of this.
I think as multi-media resources become increasingly a mainstay in daily commerce and educational interactions, and as multiple learning styles are fully recognized as a fact of life, finding interesting and creative ways to incorporate multi-media resources in to personal learning curriculums will become a central mission for leaders in knowledge and conceptual work fields.
What an exciting time we are living in!
and multiple learning styles, I used an assortment of media from which to supplement my formal education. If I was watching a Humphrey Bogart movie where Bogie was the hero fighting Nazi spy rings here in the U.S., and words such as “fifth columnist” were being used, I promptly searched that phrase down in an encyclopedia or asked a favorite teacher for an official definition. [“Fifth Columnist”, by the way, referred to the spy network the Nazis had which extended in to major populated areas throughout the western world.]
I also used this method in a Black History course I took in high school. We had a paper to write on the topic of our favorite Black hero and I chose the Marvel Comics hero, the Black Panther. Also known as T’Challa, the Panther was king of a scientifically advanced African tribe who possessed the strength and agility of a panther. He was first introduced in The Fantastic Four magazine and went on to star in the Avengers and eventually a short lived book of his. Most important about the paper I wrote about him was that it forced me to think about how African American and African characters were presented in popular culture. T’Challa was, in fact, a rarity as most superheroes of color hailed from the Blaxiplotation mindset of being just a step above undereducated street thugs.
In later years I used this method of incorporating my learning from many multi-media environments to gain deeper understandings about everything from Albert Einstein to the Cold War.
And today, unlike any other time, we have at our disposal a broad swath of well researched, well documented media represented in the forms of the works of filmmakers Spike Lee and Ken Burns to just name a couple. One of my current favorites right now is “Mad Men,” which is the AMC hit that enthrallingly depicts the advertising industry during the late 1950s and early 1960s. I should also add that the internet now supplements all of our learning experiences and we've only scratched the surface in how this is being used. Certainly the explosion in online education is one of the more visible results of this.
I think as multi-media resources become increasingly a mainstay in daily commerce and educational interactions, and as multiple learning styles are fully recognized as a fact of life, finding interesting and creative ways to incorporate multi-media resources in to personal learning curriculums will become a central mission for leaders in knowledge and conceptual work fields.
What an exciting time we are living in!
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