Howard Gardner's 30 year old theory of the existence of 8 and more Multiple Intelligence in an individual as against a single IQ is slowly gaining ground. Read on about how you can discover and nurture the MI in your child
Next Generation Educated Person (#MSLFM11)Atul Pant
What does a 'Next Generation Educated Person' (NeGEP) look like? What forces are propelling the development of NeGEP and what are resisting? This presentation looks at the dispositions of and does a Force Field Analysis for NeGEP.
Howard Gardner's 30 year old theory of the existence of 8 and more Multiple Intelligence in an individual as against a single IQ is slowly gaining ground. Read on about how you can discover and nurture the MI in your child
Next Generation Educated Person (#MSLFM11)Atul Pant
What does a 'Next Generation Educated Person' (NeGEP) look like? What forces are propelling the development of NeGEP and what are resisting? This presentation looks at the dispositions of and does a Force Field Analysis for NeGEP.
The de Bono Institute is a not-for-profit education research institution passionate about thinking, creativity, design and learnable intelligence. We are dedicated to helping young Australians equip themselves to face the challenges of the 21st Century.
Think about the children starting school next year. These children will be tomorrow’s future. They will retire from their working lives around 2070.
The role of education is to engage and prepare these children for a future filled with jobs, technology and social demands that are yet to be invented. The world is changing faster than we can envision it.
de Bono Institute believes that young people need to develop good thinking practices so that they are innovative, flexible, resilient and creative. They need the ability to increase their capacity for solving complex problems, making informed decisions and generate new knowledge.
Neuroscience and Learning - Dr Paul Howard-JonesMike Morrison
On 28 Jan 2013 Dr Paul Howard-Jones, a renowned neuroscientist from Bristol University spoke on the CIPDMembers LinkedIn group webinar about the impact of current neuroscience, some myths and the importance of understanding research
To watch the recording go to rapidbi.com/store/
In the era of ubiquitous computerisation and cheap automation what skills and competencies will students need to really shine? What dispositions will lead to success? In a guided introspection workshop, which I conducted for students of Vasant Valley school and Ramjas school, R.K. Puram (both based in New Delhi), I looked at these issues.
The de Bono Institute is a not-for-profit education research institution passionate about thinking, creativity, design and learnable intelligence. We are dedicated to helping young Australians equip themselves to face the challenges of the 21st Century.
Think about the children starting school next year. These children will be tomorrow’s future. They will retire from their working lives around 2070.
The role of education is to engage and prepare these children for a future filled with jobs, technology and social demands that are yet to be invented. The world is changing faster than we can envision it.
de Bono Institute believes that young people need to develop good thinking practices so that they are innovative, flexible, resilient and creative. They need the ability to increase their capacity for solving complex problems, making informed decisions and generate new knowledge.
Neuroscience and Learning - Dr Paul Howard-JonesMike Morrison
On 28 Jan 2013 Dr Paul Howard-Jones, a renowned neuroscientist from Bristol University spoke on the CIPDMembers LinkedIn group webinar about the impact of current neuroscience, some myths and the importance of understanding research
To watch the recording go to rapidbi.com/store/
In the era of ubiquitous computerisation and cheap automation what skills and competencies will students need to really shine? What dispositions will lead to success? In a guided introspection workshop, which I conducted for students of Vasant Valley school and Ramjas school, R.K. Puram (both based in New Delhi), I looked at these issues.
3. However, this often
happens with me… Dad, my science
teacher had asked
us to find out for
today’s lesson…
No worries
son, we
can find
out…
4. Dad, my science
teacher had
asked us to find
out for today’s
lesson…
No
worries
son, we
can
find
out…
The silicon may not have
fused with carbon inside our
brain, not yet… But we already rely on
ubiquitous silicon outside,
for information gathering!
5. Cheap and pervasive computing makes traditional skills
like memorization redundant, and increasingly
computers are also being used for analysis, so what skills
and competencies will be needed now?
10. 1. Learn to learn and become an excellent
SELF-
SELF-DIRECTED learner
11. 2. Ability to SYNTHESIZE, to see RELATIONSHIPS
between unrelated disciplines, to see PATTERNS,
understand COMPLEXITY, derive INSIGHTS, SOLVE
REAL-
REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS, IDEATE and INNOVATE
12. “ … we are all just
cavemen with
briefcases, hungry
for a wise person to
tell us stories.
“
- Alan Kay
3. Ability to communicate the idea or insight using an
engaging NARRATIVE
13. “ We Think…
…empathetically
“
4. Ability to COLLABORATE – i.e. work together with
diverse set of people… with EMPATHY
14. “ We have the means but no
meaning. - Viktor Frankel
“
“ Nishkam Karma - pursuit of
goals larger than your self-
The Mobius Strip of Life
interest. - Bhagwad Geeta
“
Most Important – a deep understanding of SELF -
5. emotions, self-image, compassion, learning to be…
self-
15. NeGEP
- Force Field Analysis
Analysis of forces resisting and propelling
the development of NeGEP
16. R E S I S T I N G
BoP - not aware that Refusal to believe Understand context
context is changing context is changing is changing but
inertia to act
Trying is the first
step towards
failure
- Homer Simpson
Status quo because of Don’t know what Lack of facilities to
fear of failure or ridicule new skills to acquire learn new skills and
in trying something and how competencies
different
17. Climate Change
Population
Poverty
Global Imperative –
complex problems Extrinsic Motivators – job in a Online Learning
will need new skills new economy; Intrinsic – Networks will facilitate
challenge, novelty, meaning
Learning –
The Treasure
Within
Enthusiastic Govt,
Govt, Private and Civil
Enlightened
educators Society initiatives
Parents
P R O P E L L I G
N
18. May you learn to self-learn, think,
synthesize, narrate, collaborate,
create, share, empathize, find
meaning and… be happy.
19. Good Reads and Resources
• ‘A Whole New Mind’ – Daniel H Pink
• ‘Living on Thin Air’ – Charles Leadbeater
• ‘We Think’ – Charles Leadbeater
• ‘21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times’ –
Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel
• ‘5 Minds for the Future’ – Howard Gardner
• http://www.p21.org/
http://www.p21.org/
• http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/
http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/
20. Join Learning Conversations
around skills relevant for
flourishing in the 21st century
www.facebook.com/lifeskills