Book Groups

A Whole New World: Elizabeth, Brooke, Angelina, Diane

What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy: John, Heather, Kelly

You Are Not A Gadget: Regina, Denise, Donna, Kevin, Yvette

What Would Google Do?: Laura, Angela, Staci

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

NEW MIND

Whole New Mind opened up our minds to realize how important it is for our students to play, create, problem solve in other words utilize more of the creative right side of the brain. In order to compete with work that is going overseas and computers. Pink discusses the importance of working on the six aptitudes of being proficient in right brained thinking.Those aptitudes are: design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning. We thought how as teachers can we implement these aptitudes and what do they exactly mean in the right brained spectrum.

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