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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)

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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)

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Did You Know?...Video

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

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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?

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Left Brain +

Right Brain =

A Whole New Mind

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L-Directed Thinking

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“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)

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This is shifting!

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R-Directed Thinking

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“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)

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Why is this shift happening?

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Abundance“In an age of

abundance, appealing only to rational,

logical, and functional needs is woefully

insufficient.” (Pink, 2006)

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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)

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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)

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We need to be teaching how to

think with the WHOLE MIND!

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“In the Conceptual Age, we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by

mastering six essential R-Directed

aptitudes.” (Pink, 2006)

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“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)

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http://www.chadphila.org/mission.html

Design

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http://storycenter.org/

Story

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Symphony

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http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=19004998

Empathy

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Play

http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php

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Meaninghttp://www.sas.upenn.edu/cgs/graduate/mapp/

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TECHNOLOGY can help you bring these into TEACHING and LEARNING!

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“ 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

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Water Buffalo Movie

http://www.waterbuffalomovie.com/

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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/

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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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