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Teaching and Learning in the Conceptual Age“We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear,
computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a
society built on the inventive, emphatic, big-picture capabilities of
what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.”
(Pink, 2006)
Did You Know Discussion
• What is a flattening world?– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat
• What skills do our children need to succeed?• Are they the same as they’ve always been?• Do we need to change how we reach these
students?• Will left brain (logical and linear) thinking be
enough?
Left Brain +
Right Brain =
A Whole New Mind
L-Directed Thinking
“The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain
kind of mind – computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who
could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers.” (Pink, 2006)
This is shifting!
R-Directed Thinking
“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind –
creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These
people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big
picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”
(Pink, 2006)
Why is this shift happening?
Abundance“In an age of
abundance, appealing only to rational,
logical, and functional needs is woefully
insufficient.” (Pink, 2006)
Asia“As the cost of communicating with the other side of the globe falls essentially to zero, and as developing nations continue to
mint millions of extremely capable knowledge workers,
the working lives of North Americans, Europeans, and Japanese people will change
dramatically.” (Pink, 2006)
Automation“Any job that depends on routines – that can be reduced to a set of rules, or broken down
into a set of repeatable steps – is at risk.”
(Pink, 2006)
We need to be teaching how to
think with the WHOLE MIND!
“In the Conceptual Age, we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by
mastering six essential R-Directed
aptitudes.” (Pink, 2006)
“The Six Senses”
1. Design (not just function)
2. Story (not just argument)
3. Symphony (not just focus)
4. Empathy (not just logic)
5. Play (not just seriousness)
6. Meaning (not just accumulation)
Symphony
http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=19004998
Empathy
Meaninghttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/cgs/graduate/mapp/
TECHNOLOGY can help you bring these into TEACHING and LEARNING!
“ The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to
improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts
of other men.” - Bill Beattie
Water Buffalo Discussion
Which of the “six senses” did this moviedemonstrate?
Design (not just function)Story (not just argument)Symphony (not just focus)Empathy (not just logic)Play (not just seriousness)Meaning (not just accumulation)
http://www.waterbuffalomovie.com/
Resources• http://www.waterbuffalomovie.com/• http://www.sas.upenn.edu/cgs/graduate/mapp/• http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php• http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=19004998• http://storycenter.org/• http://www.chadphila.org/mission.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat• http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/• Pink, Daniel (2006). A Whole New Mind. New York: Riverhead
Books.
This presentation was created for the 2007 New Teacher Orientation by the Burke County Public Schools Elementary Instructional Technology Specialists in NC.
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