This is the first part of a three part presentation given in Los Cabos, Mexico for UNOi. In it, I draw parallels between the life, creative processes and work of Leonardo Da Vinci and that of project-based learning, maker culture, and inquiry. At the beginning some analogies are made between mobile learning and the Impressionist art movement.

1. Leading Like Leonardo:
Thinking Outside the Lines
in the Creative Organization
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2. Leonardo?

3. Talk
and Share
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12. What’s “Historyteachers”?

14. me,
sketching
everywhere

16. never say…
@adambellow

17. aren’t we all?

19. caves at chauvet
32-30,000 BP

20. venus of willendorf
28-25,000

21. Instagram Art

22. Instant Art Gallery
Show something from your camera roll
you are proud of…
a beautifully captured moment…
an artistic shot…

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24. what can we
learn from
great artists?

28. Monet, Impression, Sunrise 1872

29. impressionist movement
and mobile learning

30. once revolution

31. now ubiquitous

35. appreciate the fleeting
…and the era in which you live

36. Monet, 1877

37. Manet, 1882

38. Renoir, 1880s

39. Degas,1893

43. go mobile

44. get messy
and real

45. not reactive
proactive

46. embrace the tech of the day

47. tools inform technique

48. break your bubble

49. new perspective

50. get a posse
+ collaborate

51. get connected

52. IMAGIPHOR
Find an image on your phone’s camera roll that is a
METAPHOR for “CHANGE”
Think/ Pair/ Share

53. Change?

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56. Knowing is not enough - we must apply;
being willing is not enough -
we must DO

57. rise above
your roots

59. stay curious +
sharpen senses

60. beginner’s mind
(free from assumptions)
“insightful ignorance”
- Stuart Firestein, Columbia

61. inspiration
takes no
vacation

63. negative
capability

64. I have the answers to the questions
they never ask
- Gwen Burvall

65. “and how do they run on the ice in Flanders?”
Never-ending To DO Lists

66. Answer: México
what is the question?

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68. conversely thinking

69. Cite experience first,
and then with reasoning,
show why such experience is bound to operate in such a way
Leonardo Da Vinci

70. Draw what you SEE…
…not what you are taught to see

71. my”mistakes”
It’s OK to be wrong…
a lot!

72. move on…and up

73. who you know
will help you grow

75. make disciplines
dance together

76. Thinking and Communicating
with
METAPHOR

77. Hack your tools
what else could it be or do?
how can it be adapted?

78. Meaning Through Making
occhio tenebroso

79. light others’
candles

80. Make thinking visible…
and SHARE

81. Combinatorial Play
“Blind Dates” - merge 2 ideas
or disciplines
Cold War + Pizza
Geography + Math
Albert Einstein

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83. Hardware
Software
MINDware
for lifelong learning

84. Da Vinci and Project Based Learning?

85. PBL is NOT an “extra” “add-on”
It’s a frame
in which to communicate your content

86. PBL a play…
disciplines are scenes
math
literature
science
history

87. CONNECTIONS
(de-silo / cross discipline)

88. INTENTIONS (REFLECTIONS)
(meaning thru making)

89. PROVOCATION / INVESTIGATION

90. SOLUTION / COMMUNICATION

91. ARTICULATION / DOCUMENTATION

92. CONTINUATION / REVISION

96. learn why the world
wags and what wags it
- Merlin

108. Collaboration leads to
AMPLIFICATION of ideas

112. The eyes are a window to the soul
Leonardo Da Vinci

116. PROCESS
PRODUCT
REFLECTION
PicPlayPost App

117. break the 4th wall of
the media we consume

118. What if the “group” in “group project”
was the world?

119. class as
a studio with no walls

121. I don’t think EDUCATION is about
centralized instruction anymore…
it’s the process of
establishing oneself as a NODE
in a broad NETWORK of
distributed
CREATIVITY
@joi, MIT

122. Core Creative Competencies
Robert Epstein
Capturing

123. Core Creative Competencies
Robert Epstein
Capturing
Surrounding

124. Core Creative Competencies
Robert Epstein
Capturing
Surrounding
Challenging

125. Core Creative Competencies
Robert Epstein
Capturing
Surrounding
Challenging
Broadening

126. DaVinci - fy
always have
a notebook

127. ideas are butterflies
- notebook is net

128. Just

129. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things