POETRY! ... or: poetry

Here are some sites where you can find great poems for our poetry book project.

Have a look at all of them, please. Maybe you'll like the third one better than the first one. Or the other way round. But who knows ... :-)

1 Poetry Daily

2 The Top 40 poems at "American Poems"

3 The "Poem of the Day" at "American Poems"

4 The Poetry Archive

5 "Freedom Poems" (National Poetry Day 2017)

6 The Favourite Poem Project

7 Poem of the month


Have you ever thought about what poetry is for? Here you can see how poets react when this question is put to them.  -->  What is poetry for?

The 6 C's for the 21st century

Somebody with the username "smarterteacher" has published an infographic called "The 6 C's of

Education for the 21st Century". You can access the whole think here, and if you scroll down you'll get a short text on each of the C's:

The 6 C's of Education for the 21st Century

The 6 C's are:

1. Think critically
2. Communicate clearly
3. Work collaboratively
4. Embrace culture
5. Develop creativity
6. Utilize connectivity

Are you getting enough "c" training at school? What could we do to improve the current situation?

School makes students stupid?

Watch the following short interview (in German) with Prof. Ulrich Weinberg at the website of DIE ZEIT:

"Verblödet die Schule unsere Kinder?"

Have a look at the comments, too. What is your comment? Give me your opinion on this topic, please.

Ulrich Weinberg is Head of the "HPI School of Design Thinking" at the University of Potsdam.

The School of Design Thinking at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute began its program in the winter term of 2007/2008. Under the directorship of Prof. Ulrich Weinberg this unique complementary program in Design Thinking (inventive development) is the first of its kind at a German university. Modelled on the famous d.school at Stanford University in California (US), the one-year program in Design Thinking will enable students to develop particularly user-friendly IT-based products and services in multidisciplinary teams.

The truly revolutionary aspect of the concept of Design Thinking is that both the three to four students in each team as well as their professors all come from different academic disciplines. Teams of computer scientists and usability experts, designers and management specialists, biologists, sociologists, and medical doctors work towards innovative solutions and the development of prototypes.     

Students from practically all disciplines, who are in the final phase of their M.A.-level university studies, are eligible to apply for this supplementary training in Design Thinking in Potsdam. The course starts annually in the fall.