Learn to Speak Left Brain

Right Brainers

Denise Clyne-RuchNelson Elementary SchoolDenton, Texas

1954 Pontiac Star Chief Custom

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Art Teacher’s say “No, Duh!”Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

So how do we communicate that we are covering the higher order thinking skills to people who might speak a different language?

Finally a book has

come out that

addresses the

importance of right-

brained thinking.

How can we use the

information from

this book to the

best advantage?

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Revenge of the Right Brain 

Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

Wired Magazine Feb 2005

We Want Innovation and we want it NOW!!!!!!

Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-

Brandon

Practice 3: Flip What’s FoolishMake it wise to be foolish, and every fool will generate wisdom

“How Fascinating!”

Imagination First When imagination becomes a habit, it can transform your work and your life.

Practice 10: Untie Your Tongue

Talk about your work with someone who doesn't understand it.

Practice 5: Reinvent the Wheel

Be willing to give back the givens.

Some things we take to be laws of nature, or works of mankind long ago perfected. Take the wheel. If ever there was a cliché about creative work, it is that we should at all costs avoid ‘‘reinventing the wheel.’’

Lincoln Center Institute’s 50 Imagination Conversations Project is an ambitious new initiative to explore the role and importance of imagination in all areas of human endeavor, from the artist’s studio to the classroom to the boardroom.

Lincoln Center Institute is contributing to the discussion with several ambitious projects designed to bring a cornucopia of ideas concerning the propagation of the imagination to educators (and others) across the country. One project is 50 Imagination Conversations; the idea is to hold a Conversation in each of the 50 states over the next two years, culminating in America’s Imagination Summit in spring 2011.

Imagination Conversations

Last Child in the WoodsNicholson’s “loose

parts theory”:“In any environment

both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in it.”

NEW POLL REVEALS STIFLING IMAGINATION IN SCHOOLS UNDERLIES INNOVATION AND SKILLS DEFICIT

Evidence Points To New Values Coalition Of Swing Voters Ready to Act to KeepAmerica CompetitiveWashington, D.C. (Jan. 24) – Results from a national poll were released today

by Lake

Research Partners identifying a new strand of swing voters poised to support candidates

and policy that ensures building capacities of the imagination in schools.The new national survey of 1,000 likely voters, with a 3.1% margin of error, identifies

that30% of American voters are not only dissatisfied with public education’s narrow focus

onthe “so-called” basics but that they also believe developing the imagination is a

critical, butmissing, ingredient to student success in 21st century schools and moving studentsbeyond average.

The Imagine Nation

57% of voters say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who came out

in support of more funding for development of skills of the imagination in schools.

• 57% of voters say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who votes to cut

funding for building capacities of the imagination in public education, and 36%

percent of voters say they would be much less likely to do so.

The Imaginenation

73% of voters believe (63% strongly) that building capacities of the imagination that

lead to innovation is just as important as the “so called” basics for all students.

• 56% of American voters believe that, when compared to other nations, America

devotes less attention to developing the imagination and innovation. Only 19% of respondents believe the United States is ahead.

The Imaginenation

What can you do? http://bit.ly/9oUyo1

You are already “doing” higher order thinking skills in your room, you just need to let administration know it.

Advocate for yourself; no one else is going to. Use guerilla warfare tactics.

Make an advocacy wall. Post reports from people and agencies who speak the left-brained Corbusier language.

At the same time:Let everyone know about the increasing

importance of right-brained thinking in the future economy .

In Conclusion:

Imagination FirstWhite House Speech writer and advisor to

President Clinton.Executive Director of the Lincoln Center

Institute. Innovation is impossible without Imagination.When imagination becomes a habit, it can

transform your work and your life.

Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon