This slide deck is in response to an end-of-semester assignment for EDUC 7008 at University of Minnesota Duluth, Spring 2012.

1. a meditation on
BRAINS

2. and their magnificent powers!

3. Learners have BRAINS

4. Learners are inherently...

5. Curious,
Absorbent,
& immersed in the
context of their individual,
everyday lives.

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7. LOUD

8. complex

9. and sponsored
by ads.

10. Learners are inherently...

11. in search of

12. Meaning,
Balance,
&

13. Self Actualization
g
Esteem
Belonging
Safety
Physiological/Survival
Abraham Maslow, 1908 - 1970

14. The point of
learning is to
become different.
Alison Bridges
Fictional Character in Bridges To Autonomy: Paradoxes in Teaching and
Learning by Matthew R. Silliman and David Kenneth Johnson

15. (that is, your
understanding of your
Self in the world, not
your self’s Essence,
which is fine and good
as is)

16. Teaching takes BRAINS

17. Teaching is inherently...

18. • a weighty and political responsibility
• a thoughtful, supportive activity
• a self-actualizing process

19. ... all at once! ...

20. People
learn from
people
they
love.
David Brooks
American Journalist

21. Assessment of BRAINS

22. Assessment should be...

23. 360
Connective Relational

24. transparent

25. MOTIVATIONAL!
(not punitive or judgy)
a
Judgy is not productive.

26. Assessment should be...

27. Supportive,
Adaptive, To assist both learner and teacher
along their paths to self actualization.
Adaptable

28. Pathwalker, there is no path.
You must make the path as you go.
Antonio Machada
Spanish Poet

29. Our BRAINS use
knowledge to make our paths

30. Knowledge that is worthwhile...

31. Helps us discover our true selves,

32. Reveals our true callings,

33. i.e., knowledge helps us
g
get here
Esteem
Belonging
Safety
Physiological/Survival

34. People up here

35. Want everyone
to be up here

36. So they idealize and
act toward just and
equitable conditions
for everyone.

37. What are the
magnificent powers
of our BRAINS?

38. TO EDUCATE
ourselves and others for
change

39. Education is a
process of living
and not a
preparation for
future living.
John Dewey
American Educator

40. Credits
Emoke
Denes,
Wikipedia
Bridges
to
Autonomy;
MaChew
R.
Silliman
&
David
Kenneth
Johnson;
Piraeus
Books
LLC;
August
2011
Rakka,
Flickr
Commons
“The
Social
Animal”;
David
Brooks;
TED
2011;
March
2011
Skinnyde,
Flickr
Commons
My
Pedagogic
Creed;
John
Dewey;
E.L.
M
Rio,
Flickr
Commons
Kellogg
&
Co.,
January
1897
(public
domain)