DaVinci in your Classroom
At the 2010 ULearn conference I was asked to participate in a Pecha Kucha event. A Pecha Kucha is a way of giving a presentation with 20 supporting slides, where each slide is automatically timed to show for only 20 seconds. This leads to a presentation of exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Despite being one of the shortest presentations I've given, this was certainly one of the hardest to put together, just in terms of working out the timing and figuring out what to say in those 20 blocks of 20 seconds. It sounds easy, but it certainly took a while to get it together. Here is the summary of what the talk was about… "As a gifted polymath, Leonardo da Vinci stands out as the prototypical lifelong learner. Curious, inventive, creative... All the things we would love our students to be. But how well would da Vinci have survived in today’s typical classroom? If Leonardo was a student in a school today would he have achieved to the same degree?" And here are the ...