Creativity
My highlights from video presentations:
1. Laura Masters - Who’s Growing the Neurons?
-for information to be stored in the brain it must be thought about and rehearsed. PBL and 21st century skills are the best way to do this!!
2. John Seely Brown - New Culture of Learning
-We need to rethink how we learn, what we need to learn, and how new media has changed things. There is no better way to learn than to explain to someone else.
3. Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligence
-We need to focus on the Respectful and Ethnical minds as well as our cognitive minds; discipline, synthesizing and creative
4. Sir Ken Robinson - all of them!
-Creativity is as important as literacy. We need to be ok with being wrong. Our education system needs to be transformed not reformed
5. Daniel Pink - The surprising science of motivatioin
-Rewards narrow the mind and restricts possibilities. If/then rewards don’t work they destroy creativity
I find Laura Master’s discussion on the brain and how it relates to learning very interesting. I was very excited to see her speak of PBL and how it is a great way to access multiple parts of the brain and enhances learning. All of these presentations have very much energized me for the upcoming year. I am hoping to use PBL whenever possible to introduce new curriculum and it plays right into my driving question, What is the impact of a cross-curricular PBL on the engagement of all students?
My highlights from video presentations:
1. Laura Masters - Who’s Growing the Neurons?
-for information to be stored in the brain it must be thought about and rehearsed. PBL and 21st century skills are the best way to do this!!
2. John Seely Brown - New Culture of Learning
-We need to rethink how we learn, what we need to learn, and how new media has changed things. There is no better way to learn than to explain to someone else.
3. Howard Gardner - Multiple Intelligence
-We need to focus on the Respectful and Ethnical minds as well as our cognitive minds; discipline, synthesizing and creative
4. Sir Ken Robinson - all of them!
-Creativity is as important as literacy. We need to be ok with being wrong. Our education system needs to be transformed not reformed
5. Daniel Pink - The surprising science of motivatioin
-Rewards narrow the mind and restricts possibilities. If/then rewards don’t work they destroy creativity
I find Laura Master’s discussion on the brain and how it relates to learning very interesting. I was very excited to see her speak of PBL and how it is a great way to access multiple parts of the brain and enhances learning. All of these presentations have very much energized me for the upcoming year. I am hoping to use PBL whenever possible to introduce new curriculum and it plays right into my driving question, What is the impact of a cross-curricular PBL on the engagement of all students?