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Juggling, art and the critical thinking in the digital age
Dr. Éva GyarmathyInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
„I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
Albert Einstein
The change in the human brain Passive experience instead of active bodily
and neurological participation
Using machines instead of actively taking part
Primarily visual experience in lieu of kinaesthetic-sensory experience
Ready-made pictures in lieu of image formation
Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinkingDetails
Facts, relationsWords, language
Knowledge, scienceRecognition
Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things
Thinking in realityActing
StrategySequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole
Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art
BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things workFantasy
Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity
Left Right
globalparallel
visual
SpeechReading
WritingCounting
LogicAnalysis
RelationsParts
VisualitySpatial
abilitiesImagination
MusicalityEmotions
HumorMovingWhole
analiticalsequential
verbal
Three types of information processing
Corpus callosum
KNOWLEDGE
COMPREHENSION
APPLICATION SYNTHESIS
ANALYSIS EVALUATION
• Strategic games
• Arts, music
• Sports
CULTURE = TRAINING OF THE BRAIN
TRAINING OF THE BRAIN = CULTURE
• Strategic games
• Arts, music
• Sports
Ancient solutions to connect the two types of informantion processing
and create the third type
TRAINING OF THE BRAIN = CULTURE
Different ways of thinking
LITERACY
Logical thinkingDetails
Facts, relationsWords, language
Knowledge, scienceRecognition
Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things
Thinking in realityActing
StrategySequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole
Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art
BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things workFantasy
Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity
COMPREHENSION
SYNTHESIS
ANALYSIS EVALUATION
NEW TYPE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING
LITERACY
Logical thinkingDetails
Facts, relationsWords, language
Knowledge, scienceRecognition
Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things
Thinking in realityActing
StrategySequentiality
AUDIO-VISUALITY
Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole
Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art
BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking
Knowing how things workFantasy
Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity
Systematic thinking
StrategyFantasy
Spatial-visual thinking
Network thinking
SYNTHESIS
EVALUATION
Toward the network thinking
KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION
BEFORE THE
LITERAL ERA
IN THE
LITERAL ERA
IN THE
DIGITAL ERA
holistic sequential holistic-sequential
Critical thinking
STRATEGY
Strategical thinking+ Creative thinking
The information is available, now the key is to choose and decide wisely.
Neurological harmony
HARMONY
CREATIVITY
http://www.literacyportal.eu
http://www.slideshare.net/gyarme/little-cyborgs
HARMONY
• coordinating perception and movement;
• self-control;
• harmonizing the two brain hemispheres;
• improvement of attention;
• improvement of self-esteem;
• experiencing the effect of practice on achievement.
There are many curing effects of the juggling:
