Urban Preschool - Art and Education » Uncategorized http://www.urbanpreschool.com This blog is a place to share research, experiences and inspirations around teaching and the world of Early Childhood Education (which I believe includes just about anything and everything creative). Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:34:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Paper Artist http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/08/26/paper-artist/ http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/08/26/paper-artist/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:47:42 +0000 Jolayne http://www.urbanpreschool.com/?p=2809 Mesmerized by the patience, creativity and skills of freelance designer and paper artist Bianca Chang.

Bianca Chang – Recent Works, June 2011 from Bianca Chang on Vimeo.

via visual culture

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I am not a Raffi fan but this song paired with the video, is very moving.

]]> http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/08/25/i-can/feed/ 0 Remixing High School Education http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/05/16/remixing-high-school-education/ http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/05/16/remixing-high-school-education/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 08:22:00 +0000 Jolayne http://www.urbanpreschool.com/?p=2762 via Sir Ken Robinson

Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education from sam seidel on Vimeo.

(click on the video which will lead you to vimeo for details/credits)

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“In an effort to assist Japan in their momentous healing and rebuilding efforts, The British Red Cross, in combination with the Egg-Bot and a select group of artists offer the Eastern Egg“. Proceeds go towards the BRC’s Japan Tsunami Appeal, and “donors may get the chance to watch their egg being printed (by the Egg-Bot itself) via webcam.”

]]> http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/04/24/easter-egg/feed/ 0 Play, Dream, Build & Explore http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/03/11/play-dream-build-explore/ http://www.urbanpreschool.com/2011/03/11/play-dream-build-explore/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:18:12 +0000 Jolayne http://www.urbanpreschool.com/?p=2671 “Imagination Playground is a breakthrough playspace concept conceived and designed by architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of elements that allows children to constantly reconfigure their environment and to design their own course of play. Giant foam blocks, mats, wagons, fabric and crates overflow with creative potential for children to play, dream, build and explore endless possibilities.”

What is Imagination Playground? from Imagination Playground on Vimeo.

via e-glue

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learn more from 5OCT.ORG + EFA

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photo by xavier encinas— a treasure i found in the Mediterranean —

Happy Summer Everyone! Remember to eep an eye out for natural treasures and when you find them, keep them safe for you know that come the end of summer, those treasures will tell a tale.

Be safe and have fun!

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Currently: Santa Monica, CA

Introduction: “The theses represented in this exhibition have been guiding principles in a coherent and tranformational history of experien- ce which, already at the time of the first showing of The Hundred Languages of Children exhibition in 1981, characterised experience in Reggio infant-toddler centres and preschools.

These theses are mindful of the many events causing vast transformations in culture and society, in economics and politics, in Reggio Emilia, in Italy, in the world. These theses are sensitive to guidelines in national curriculum. Above all else however, they are capable of guiding our choices for humanity, for liberty, for democracy.”

The exhibition The Wonder of Learning “presents a narrative and communicative structure designed to reflect the contemporaneity, the complexity, and the plurality of points of view that have always characterized the work carried out in the infant-toddler centres and preschools of Reggio Emilia“

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FUN! Artist Joel Henriques has provided us with a free template but I would like to encourage you to be inspired and inspire the little people around you to make their own Paper City. Please take some time to visit Joel’s blog – I am certain you will leave with an idea or five.

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