by kirsr | May 3, 2013 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity
Each year the worlds of disability & technology collide at the International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference hosted by California State Northridge University Centre on Disabilities (@CSUNCOD) at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego,...
by kirsr | Aug 25, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Explorations in Digital Theory
In Walter Benjamin’s, “The Storyteller,” Benjamin laments the gradual decline of the story as oral practice and narrative form in modern society. He remarks, “[b]y now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling, almost everything that...
by kirsr | Aug 10, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity
If you were to look at my undergraduate transcript, you’ll quickly and quizzically notice that I’ve ‘multi-tasked’ my educational areas of interest as many times as my browsers on any ether-day. In my first year at Trent University, I took...
by kirsr | Aug 4, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
I have been a fan of the films of Stanley Kubrick since I was a teenager. I loved how Kubrick seemed to be a mystic of sorts. He relied on the susceptibility of the audience to be entertained while also being convinced that what they were seeing was reality. ...
by kirsr | Jul 16, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates
EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS POST IS CURRENTLY BEING REVISED FOR CONTENT. TED.com’s slogan “Ideas Worth Spreading” promotes the idea that it is the human capacity for imagining and sharing possibilities that counts. Indeed, the website has become so...
