What is the right mix of imagination and skepticism to make the impactful, meaningful things happen? Maybe we can take something away from the study of the cosmos...

1. 4.6.16 - @dschoening - dschoening@cbcsd.org - Iowa 1:1 Conference #i11i
Imagination & Skepticism
A messy, but necessary relationship

2. Devin Schoening
Instructional Technology
Program Lead
Council Bluffs Schools
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6. “I never got this far in
my dreams.”

7. “I have no special talents, I am
only passionately curious.”

10. The emphasis on using standardized tests as the
chief metric of student progress (not to mention
teacher effectiveness) is leaving behind one of the
key purposes of education: to stimulate the
imagination.

20. “Those explorations required skepticism and
imagination both. Imagination will often carry us to
worlds that never were. But without it, we go
nowhere.
Skepticism enables us to distinguish fancy from
fact, to test our speculations."

21. Psychology Today
Skeptic vs. Critic
“Skepticism, on the other hand, is a key part of critical thinking – a goal of education.”
A cynic distrusts most information they see or hear, particularly when it challenges their own belief system
Skeptics requires additional evidence before accepting someone’s claims as true.

27. Where would you
place yourself?

28. Can you think of
people you would
place in all four
quadrants?

30. Where is the “sweet
spot”?

34. Imagination and
curiosity trump
skepticism every
time…
…but are we
asking the
questions we need
to be asking?

37. Devin Schoening
Instructional Technology
Program Lead
Council Bluffs Schools
Twitter: @dschoening
Instagram: @dschoening
Facebook: Devin Schoening
Voxer: dschoe242