Jazz Music and Constructing Modern Knowledge?
I spent a week with @garystager and a crew of passionate educators at Constructing Modern Knowledge . Most takeaways were as expected: project collaboration, chats with high minded ed-reformers, scientists and intellectual giants, as well as witnessing the anti-disciplinary culture of the Media Lab of the Massachusetts of Technology. However, the moment that made the week invaluable was when the educational workshop was interrupted by a jazz performance. At first it appeared Stager was imposing his obvious affinity of jazz music onto his participants for a welcome break to the project-based dialogue taking over the week. The couple hundred of us sat down for a few songs by jazz masters Jimmy Heath and Emmet Cohen and the tunes they played were just that, a pleasant escape from our work...but then everything reached a new level. You see, in conversation with the audience after the performance, Heath (86 years young) was asked by the crowd of technology enthusiasts: What do y