More future graduate brainstorming
Since our Future Graduate brainstorming post is a continued conversation, I’m going to start a new post here for us to continue the discussion.
(If you look want to read the older posts, look on the right side of the blog under Categories. (Scroll down). If you click on Future Graduates, it will open up those previous discussions.)
I just finished reading Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink. It has really illuminated my thinking about the creative abilities that our future students will need. I’d highly recommend the book, and it’s quick reading, by the way. I think it fits in well with some of the Model Schools’ bullet points like creativity, innovation, problem-solving, etc., although the book gets more specific and breaks down the areas of creativity into some very specific skills, which I found interesting.
It also makes me wonder with all the standardized tests, increased math and science requirements, that maybe we should be looking at a model of “Creativity Across the Curriculum,” just as we consider that we should teach Writing across the Curriculum. Many of our teachers are already doing this, but I’m sure for all of us there is the tendency because of the rigor of “content” there can be a tendency to neglect the creative side of education?
I just participated in an online conference(K12 Online) which I write more about on our Technology blog, but there were sessions on so many web tools that students can use across the curriculum in innovative and creative ways. I saw one on Google Earth using a map of buildings of Las Vegas to teach shapes and volume in math, for example. Very interesting!
On we go– let’s continue the future graduate brainstorming here…. Carolyn
November 17, 2006 @ 8:19 am
I was reading the World is Flat and noticed that in Chapter six, Friedman defines the new “middlers,” which he defines as jobs that will remain in the U.S.
Here is his list:
–great collaborators and orchestrators
–great synthesizers
–great explainers
–great leveragers(understand how things tie together and reinventing things)
–great adapters
–passionate personalizers(the personal touch)
–great localizers(small business)
How does that compare with our other lists?
Carolyn