The document discusses how society is shifting from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. In the Conceptual Age, skills like design thinking, storytelling, empathy, and finding meaning will be more important than linear, logical skills. It argues we need to teach students these "right brain" skills to succeed in a world where many jobs can be automated. Specifically, it recommends cultivating the "six senses" of design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning through technology-enhanced teaching and learning.

1. Teaching and Learning in the Conceptual Age “ We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical , linear , computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive , emphatic , big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.” (Pink, 2006)

2. Did You Know?... Video http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

4. Left Brain + Right Brain = A Whole New Mind

5. L-Directed Thinking

6. “ The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers.” (Pink, 2006)

7. This is shifting!

8. R-Directed Thinking

9. “ The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers , pattern recognizers , and meaning makers . These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.” (Pink, 2006)

10. Why is this shift happening?

11. Abundance “ In an age of abundance, appealing only to rational, logical, and functional needs is woefully insufficient.” (Pink, 2006)

12. Asia “ As the cost of communicating with the other side of the globe falls essentially to zero, and as developing nations continue to mint millions of extremely capable knowledge workers, the working lives of North Americans, Europeans, and Japanese people will change dramatically.” (Pink, 2006)

13. Automation “ Any job that depends on routines – that can be reduced to a set of rules, or broken down into a set of repeatable steps – is at risk.” (Pink, 2006)

14. We need to be teaching how to think with the WHOLE MIND!

15. “ In the Conceptual Age, we will need to complement our L-Directed reasoning by mastering six essential R-Directed aptitudes.” (Pink, 2006)

18. http://storycenter.org/ Story

19. Symphony

20. http://www.ideo.com/portfolio/re.asp?x=19004998 Empathy

21. Play http://www.laughteryoga.org/index.php

22. Meaning http://www.sas.upenn.edu/cgs/graduate/mapp/

23. TECHNOLOGY can help you bring these into TEACHING and LEARNING !

24. “ The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” - Bill Beattie

25. Water Buffalo Movie http://www.waterbuffalomovie.com/