These posters by Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson caught my eye.
Designed for children using data from a variety of sources from; elevation data from Hawaiian volcanos, craters of the moon, and voice wave forms, these quirky images combine science, nature, algorithm and design neatly integrating analytical and creative ways of thinking.
What I particularly like is that it's a neat and not overly intellectual way to join the dots in children's minds between (subject) areas that we currently separate out in education and culturally within business. And without explicitly saying so it sets a good foundation for introducing systems thinking further upstream.
It's the sort of software that lends itself to cloud computing at school - globally across all schools, as part of the creation of a central on-line playground where pupils can come online, tap into data from geography - data from a school in Hawaii on weather patterns, biology - Cambridge university's research on why locusts swarm (serotonin apparently, very interesting, best keep the SSRIs out the way), business studies, use waveforms from music, the skate park, the woods, creative tools from the art department to collaborate, create, play, integrate and post up. A more dynamic school exchange programme, that's on-going and driven by pupils in explorative mode from home rather than in ICT once a week. Bottom up rather than top-down.
