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Interactive Workshop
byEwing Coleman GreenEDD 8260 CRN 50099
Linking Learning and Leadership to Brain Research
Nova Southeastern UniversityAugust 4, 2013
Welcome!
Turn Right
for
Whole Brain Learning
Interactive Workshop
21st Century Learning
Emphasis on the right hemisphere
The PastPink (2006) suggested:
The 20th centuryPrimarily logic, sequence, and analytical skills
Advances in science, engineering, and finance (flight, energy generation, capital deployment, globalization)
Age of computing, language of code
Information technology
Focus on product function
Left brain powered
The FuturePink (2006) argued:
The 21st century promises to place a premium onIntuitive and holistic thinking supported by logic and analysis
Big picture perspective
Age of conceptual thinking, language of story
Forming creative connections
Collaboration
Focus on product design
Right brain powered
The Future (cont’d)
Black and Gregersen (2008) argued:People develop mental maps based on experience
20th century perspective tended to be self-centric and fixed
21st century perspective must be juxtapositional and integrated
Larger context, contrasting, flexible, and empathetic
Requires collaborative seeing, moving, finishing
Right brain powered
NeuroscienceAdvances in brain analysis using techniques such as fMRI, PET, and SPECT are pinpointing brain functioning
Executive functioning of the frontal lobes over distributed cognition
Integrated yet distinct functioning of the left and right hemispheres
Neuroscience (cont’d)
Goldberg (2009) reported:Left hemisphere primarily handles
Logic
Sequence
Activating established routines
Analysis
Right hemisphere primarily handlesContext
Synthesis
Formulating creative solutions
Emotional expression
Left vs. Right
Left vs. Right (cont’d)
Right brain engagers
Big picture
Emotional expression
Flexible grouping
Differentiation
Collaborative discussion
Drawing
Right brain engagers (cont’d)
Painting
Mind mapping
Student relevancy
Humor
Games
Creative repetition
Education needs to ‘turn right’
The research, 21st century workforce requirements, and advances in neuroscience all point to the need for greater development and deployment of the right hemisphere
Education has a key role to play
Teacher professional development and student learning engagement must focus more on the right brain
Turn Right for Whole Brain Learning
21st Century Educational Superhighway
Workshop Sessions
7 right brain oriented purposeful sessions
45 minute duration with discussion
Stage: movement and dance — focused on big picture, emotional expression, and flexible grouping
Second floor: music— focused on differentiation and collaborative discussion
Side room: art — focused on drawing, painting and mind mapping
Sessions (cont’d)Side rooms and both tiers of lobby: (4)— two sessions each focused on the core subjects (language arts, social studies, math, and science
Cross-disciplinary content using multi-media audiovisuals
Emphasis on student-relevancy, humor, games, and creative repetition
Workshop Content
Clockwise foot + 6
Consider these words
Vocabulary builder
Albert Einstein – for fun
What do you see?
More on the sides
Man in the coffee beans
Workshop Content (cont’d)
Man looking in which direction
Spinning girl
Core subject example – Algebra
Clockwise foot + 6
Sitting where you are, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it
Now…Keep doing this, and draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand
Well?Did you foot change directions and begin rotating counter clockwise involuntarily?
Reflection Questions
Why did this happen?Which side of our brain controls the right side of our bodies?
Which direction does our right hand move in drawing the number 6?
What causes this phenomenon? (please respond…)
Consider these words
left brain right brainHow many words do you see?
Are there 4?
left brain right brain4 > left, brain, right, brain
Slightly different question
left brain right brainHow many different words do you see?
Are there 3?3 > left, brain, right
Slightly different question
Left brain right brainWithout rearranging the letters, how many different words do you see?
Are there 7?
left brain right brain7 > left, brain, right, rain, bra, in, rig
Reflection Questions
Why do the answers amongst us differ?
What is the influence of question form?
Since language is a dual hemispheric endeavor how does individual hemispheric functioning reveal itself here? (please respond…)
Vocabulary builder
Heuristic—Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves
i.e., a hands-on or interactive heuristic approach to learning
New Oxford American Dictionary, MacBook Pro
This builds a person’s sense of self-efficacy Bandura (1977, 1997)
Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
What do you see?
A goblet, two opposing faces,
or both?
Now…try thisMove your eyes back and forth from the black facial images, left to right, right to left, and so on back and forth a few times…
Do you feel it?Do you feel your occipital lobe working to make sense of the image and fix one representation?
You are exercising your brain and seriously engaging your corpus collosum!
More on the sides…
This one is toughCan you find the man in the coffee beans?
Here he is…
Perhaps…The man in the coffee beans overloads our brain and locks our right brain in an endless loop
There are excessive possibilities given the coloration, varying bean shapes, and combinations of clusters
Success is found here by engaging more of the left brain
One more visual…Is the man looking at you or to his right?
Spinning Girl
Clockwise or Counter
Clockwise?Spinning girl URLhttp://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/
One more time…Spinning girl URL
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/
Hint: Look down at the reflection in the floor for a while and your brain may reverse the rotation from clockwise to counter clockwise
These exercises serve to…
provide evidence of the gradiental, highly distributed nature of our brains operating in a massively parallel and interconnected way (Goldberg, 2009, p. 59)
help you feel and practice loaded right hemispheric functioning
Core Subject Example-- Algebra
How to make learning quadratics fun!Let’s play with gravity!
Basic mathematics model:
What the heck does that mean and how do you use it in real life??
Team Ball Toss
Making the connection
Making the connection (cont’d)
Making the connection (cont’d)
Conclusion
Turn right for whole brain learning!
Maximizes cognitionPrepares students for 21st century demands
ReferencesBandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory. Englewood, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company.
Black, J. S., & Gregersen, H. B. (2008). It starts with one: Changing individuals changes organizations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.
Goldberg, E. (2009). The new executive brain: Frontal lobes in a complex world. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York, NY: Penguin.
Image URLsSlide 2. Brain. Retrieved from http://sr.photos3.fotosearch.com/bthumb/CSP/CSP990/k9965377.jpg
Slide 9. Left vs. Right 1. Retrieved from http://www.lefthandersday. com/images/brainorg.jpg
Slide 10. Left vs. Right 2. Retrieved from http://assets1.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/45642/headline/rightbrain.jpg?1344535021
Slide 14. School bus. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/imgres? q=school+bus+highway
Slide 14. Right turn blinker. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/ imgres?q=school+bus+right+blinker
Image URLs (cont’d)
Slide 19. Right foot. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/39119440@N07/4786030309/
Slide 20. Right hand. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigjewell/895540530/
Slide 20. Number 6. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/23503239@N03/6635785231/
Slide 31. Einstein. Retrieved from https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmJD5QswC4mfaX9uqX3ZYx6M41_473
NO2M0TDXFNrlfYljqHmhg
Slides 32, 33, and 34. Goblet or faces. Retrieved from https://encrypted- tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxlTikSe3rdErsVGzEgBSO_Au_5n5D2XPMQ0TkFh36_v6h6carA
Image URLs (cont’d)
Slide 36. More on the sides. Retrieved from http:/www.illumine.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/left-brain-right-brain-
mind.jpg
Slides 37 and 38. Man in the coffee beans. Retrieved from http://www.theness.com/images/blogimages/beans.jpg
Slide 40. Man looking at you or to his right. Retrieved from https:// encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRVq3y244TqVIPgDf5dV5R_6wCjnngP2eIvc4YYU2K2ugOIMGjqRw
Slides 41 and 42. Spinning girl. Retrieved from http://theness.com/ neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning- girl/
Slide 46. Author’s material