Uh. Now what? A girls journey to finding her passion, through finding herself.
Finding Your Passion Sir Ken Robinson, PhD The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
-
Upload
john-greene -
Category
Documents
-
view
221 -
download
1
Transcript of Finding Your Passion Sir Ken Robinson, PhD The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
Finding Your PassionSir Ken Robinson, PhD
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Gillian Lynne (dancer & choreographer) Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) Paul McCartney (Beatle and songwriter) Did not finish high school
Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac drummer) Gordon Parks (self-taught photographer & film-maker) Richard Branson (Virgin Records/Atlantic)
Creative Individuals Who Struggled in School
The Element The meeting point between natural aptitude &
personal passion Features
Aptitude (I get it) Passion (I love it)
Conditions Attitude (I want it) Opportunity (Where is it)
Narrow View of Intelligence History begins with Aristotle and Plato
Fixed trait Demonstrated by talent with numbers and/or words
Contributions of the Enlightenment Importance of logic and critical reasoning Importance of evidence in support of scientific ideas
Mass Public Education during Industrial Revolution Need for quick & easy forms of selection & assessment Most important ideas can be conveyed via words or
mathematical expressions We can quantify intelligence & rely on IQ and
standardized tests to determine who is intelligent
History of Standardized Testing Alfred Binet – one of creators of IQ test
intended it to be used to determine what students had special needs so they could get appropriate schooling
Did not believe intelligence was fixed Lewis Termin – Stanford University
1916, revision of Binet’s test (Stanford-Binet Test) Eugenicist
argued poverty & criminality were inherited traits and that they could be identified via IQ testing
argued entire ethic groups inherited these traits, so their children should be given less rigorous education & discouraged or deterred from reproduction
SAT Test Carl Brigham, inventor
Eugenicist Conceived test for military Rejected both the SAT and eugenics 5 years later By then, Harvard and other Ivy League schools were
using it to measure applicant acceptability Been used for nearly 7 decades
John Katzman, founder of Princeton Review Does not measure intelligence Does not verify high school GPA Is very poor predictor of college grades
Multiple IntelligencesHoward Gardner
Linguistic Musical Mathematical Spatial Kinesthetic Inter-personal (relationships with others) Intra-personal (knowledge & understanding
of self) Intelligences are
mostly independent of each other None is more important, though some are
dominant, while others are dormant
Robert SternbergProfessor of Psychology at Tufts University
Argues there are 3 types of intelligence Analytic: the ability to solve problems using academic
skills and to complete conventional IQ tests Creative: the ability to deal with novel situations and to
come up with original solutions Practical: the ability to deal with problems and
challenges in everyday life Daniel Goleman
Psychologist and best-selling author Argues there is emotional and social intelligence, both of
which are essential for working with others Robert Cooper
Author of The Other 90% Argues we have a “heart” brain and a “gut” brain
Three Features of Intelligence
Diverse: expresses itself in numerous ways Dynamic: growth comes to highly
interactive brain via seeing new connections between events, ideas, and circumstances
Distinctive: unique as a fingerprint The right question to ask is: How are you
intelligent? Robinson: “We think about the world in all
the ways we experience it, including all the different ways we use our senses. We think in sound, movement, and we think visually.”
Putting your imagination to work by making something new, coming up with new solutions, or identifying new problems or questions.
Involves a process: new ideas, considering different possibilities and alternative options
Tapping into your talents to create something original
Working with media that you love. The media help creators think in different ways. This illustrates diversity of intelligence and ways of thinking.
Creativity: “the process of having original ideas that have value.”
Open Mind General Creativity
Non-linear thinking Make fresh connections See things in new ways and from different perspectives Involves intuition, heart and feelings
Personal Creativity - Being in “The Zone” or in the state of flow Can be periods of intense physical effort Can be contemplative or meditative Very personal and authentic Sense of time differs while in the Zone – a meta-state You channel ideas, are in harmony, ignore everything else
and just concentrate, and the sensation is keenly delightful. It is an life-giving and powerful state.
What puts you in the Zone? If left to your own devices (without
worrying about making a living or what others thought), what are you most drawn to doing?
What activities do you engage in voluntarily?
What aptitudes do these activities suggest?
What absorbs you most? What sort of questions to you ask, and
what type of points do they make? What do you feel born to do?
Circles of Influence
Tribes of like-minded people working in the same field
Provide mutual inspiration and drive innovation Community of shared values Communities Differ
Re-Wiring of Brain Studies of Visual Perception & Cultural Sculpting
of the Brain Westerners see Object in the foreground East Asians see the background Culture May Make an Impression
http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail.aspx?id=8008
Global Education Reform Efforts Economic: challenge to educate people to find
work and create wealth in changing world Identity: countries want to take advantage of
globalization, but not lose their identity in the process & education can help control the rate of change
Reform Efforts 3 processes in education: curriculum, pedagogy
& assessment. Reform efforts focuses on curriculum & assessment.
Policymakers think the best way to face the future is to improve what they did in the past Try to control curriculum & reinforce the old hierarchy
of subjects, pushing some disciplines and the students that excel at them to the margins
Put greater emphasis on assessment (currently standardized, which inhibits innovation and creativity for both teachers and students)
Penalize “failing” schools Standardized tests have gone from tool of
education to focus of education
Transform (not reform) Education Focus on Pedagogy Key is not to standardize education, but to
personalize education Build achievement on discovering individual
talents Provide environments where kids where want to
learn and can naturally discover their true passions
RecommendationsEd is supposed to be the process that develops all resources
Eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects & treat them equally
Question the entire idea of subjects & focus on disciplines and interdisciplinary education
Personalize the curriculum Invest in teachers Rethink assessment & include projects and
performances Reconsider the Western worldview of making
distinctions & seeing differences, to include seeing synergies & making connections