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Welcome to the book study blog for Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. Thank you for joining our first ever community-wide professional learning circle, joining students, educators, business leaders, and parents in powerful conversations about learning with a “whole new mind.”
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Shelley Bailey
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
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"...putting the pieces together, or what I call Symphony. What’s in greatest demand today isn’t analysis but synthesis – seeing the big picture, crossing boundaries, and being able to combine disparate pieces into an arresting new whole" Daniel Pink.
ReplyDeleteThis was so interesting to me because I see young people and adults who constantly struggle with this and I have to remind myself that this doesn't come naturally to most people and I have to constantly be more patient. (mostly with adults, the kids pick it up quickly).
Especially with technology and problem solving, I see lots of people just pick up the phone and say"it doesn't work, or why try..., or we have always done it this way"
Most technology projects involve many different applications/equipment and skills and few people seem to "put the pieces together" easily. So my question is how do we afford the opportunity to students to "figure it out" . We move so fast that we TELL them how to complete most projects because there is little time for experimentation, revision, improvement, getting feedback from peers or adults, and more experimentation so that they can create unique designs, create a story or experience symphony.
My goal each year is to let kids use technology to motivate themselves and others to READ and to THINK, and when we have the time to let them "play" with technology and our curriculum, they are EXCITED and fun to watch and retention goes up quickly!
I teach Global History and symphony is what I try to do with the events, geography, themes of the course is to connect them across time and place. I believe it is the best place in the curriculum for the symphony to occur. The only thing that gets in my way is the TEST. I believe educators let non-educators tell us what to do and what we got was No Child Left Behind. There is too much testing of students and not enough time to let them hear, play and experience the symphony of learning.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Peg and Jill. As Jill said kids and adults will often give up before even trying because it takes too much effort and time. Teachers are often forced to teach to the test because the student's results reflect back on the teacher. While it may be difficult to get kids to synthesize and problem solve within a time frame, it is possible and I hope teachers will continue to try.
ReplyDeleteI posted a comment, but it might not have gone through becasue my computer is terrible. So, I'll try again.
ReplyDeleteThe chapter on symphony was very uplifting to me because I am an artis, art teacher, lover of mucis and creative pursuits. There were lessons in this chaper which I could apply to my classroom such as the emphasis on negative space, making a collage out of pictures which describe feelings, the 5 line portrait, and the inspiration board.
I also liked the pharagraph on dyslexics. Several students struggle with this. I also switch letters and sometimes whole words around. In addition, I have to concentrate to stay on one line of text at a time. This makes me a slow reader, but I am a visionary, too.
I particularly loved two aspects of this chapter: the fact that some of life's greatest ideas simply come from the combining of two already existing ideas (something I find all the time in my job of teaching) and the whole concept of seeing the big picture ---something I feel I still have a lot of room to grow in --- I am so aware of having to give kids the big picture in order to bring relevance to their learning
ReplyDeleteThis chapter is so fundamental to us as educators - we really need to find ways to support, extend, challenge, design, nurture - opportunities for students to create. I believe that we need to ask our educators to synthesize as well - and it's a lot to ask, to be sure. But there could be no better example of big-picture, synthesis than our book study blog. It really is a coming together of people, ideas, technology, literacy, commitment to learning.
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