Monkeybars for Young Minds: New Basics for New World Kids
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Before young children learn to think in words, they think naturally in pictures, sound and movement. Play (in many media) is their natural way of learning. The sensory alphabet we’ll introduce gives “voice” to each child’s best ways of thinking and knowing, offering a personalized path into the abstract world of school. And because this approach interweaves higher order thinking skills and critical thinking skills, it mirrors the child’s natural way of thinking. These elements, in a simple pedagogy, provide a new kind of interior framework for the creative thinking skills the future will demand. It’s as powerful as the ABC’s are for reading.
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Monkeybars for Young Minds: New Basics for New World Kids
- 1. Monkeybars for Young Minds: New Basics for New World Kids
- 2. • Every child is creative. It is our human heritage. • Each child’s mind is as unique as a fingerprint.
- 3. •Children’s work in the future will be creating the new world. •Change will be their constant companion. • The tools we are giving them in school are no longer enough.
- 5. found that CREATIVITY is the most important quality for leadership now...more than: • existing best practices • management discipline • rigor • operations — 2010 Global CEO Study
- 6. Corporate Creativity Colleges teach: • making mistakes is OK • using multiple media is OK • play is good • reducing stress is good
- 8. • Digital Kids • Connected Learning • 21st Century Skills • Out of School Learning
- 10. The most important thing neuroscience tells us: “Reduce stress and enrich like crazy.”
- 12. “...the ability to be creative is a key 21st Century Skill.” Partnership for 21st Century Skills:
- 13. And, despite what we all know:
- 14. This is where we’re putting all our educational resources.
- 15. This is where kids are really LIVING.
- 17. Image and sound, in all their forms are just as important as words and numbers in their power to: • capture attention • communicate information and ideas • change behavior.
- 18. This is information now. An animation of this infographic was the most important TV ad in Obama’s 2012 campaign. — Jim Messina, campaign mgr.
- 19. This will soon be the answer to a 6th grade math story problem.
- 20. This is why we buy things.
- 21. This is their media.
- 24. If we want children to “speak image,” they need new thinking tools.
- 25. HOW do you make a literacy of creativity?
- 28. spoken words (language) EXPRESSIVE FORMS: oratory, singing, conversation, etc. traditional alphabet
- 29. spoken words (language) EXPRESSIVE FORMS: oratory, singing, conversation, etc. written words (reading and writing) traditional alphabet
- 30. spoken words (language) EXPRESSIVE FORMS: oratory, singing, conversation, etc. written words (reading and writing) EXPRESSIVE FORMS: contracts, books, email, grocery lists traditional alphabet
- 31. numbers
- 33. mathmetics (algebra, subtraction, geometry, etc) EXPRESSIVE FORMS: cosmology, accounting, physics, scorekeeping numbers
- 36. numbers traditional alphabetsensory alphabet line, color, texture, shape, sound, light, movement, rhythm, space
- 37. numbers traditional alphabetsensory alphabet line, color, texture, shape, sound, light, movement, rhythm, space cameras, people, paint, plants, fabric, food, digital media, etc., etc
- 38. numbers traditional alphabetsensory alphabet line, color, texture, shape, sound, light, movement, rhythm, space cameras, people, paint, plants, fabric, food, digital media, etc., etc cooking, gardening, carpentry, photography,dancing, engineering, teaching, business, etc., etc... EVERYTHING ELSE!
- 39. Everything!
- 40. The Sensory Alphabet • color • line • shape • sound • light • movement • texture • space • rhythm
- 41. Line
- 42. Space
- 43. Rhythm
- 44. Sound
- 45. Light
- 46. Texture
- 47. Move- ment
- 48. Shape
- 49. Color
- 50. Before we learn to think in words, we think naturally in Pictures, sound and movement.
- 56. The Sensory Alphabet creates internal monkeybars for young minds.
- 57. • Sensory Alphabet • Creative Process • Each Child’s Individual Strengths The path to a literacy of creativity begins here:
- 60. We believe that real creativity cannot be divorced from individuality.
- 61. “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein
- 68. Henry thinks best in 3-D SHAPE. Pedro thinks best with LINES Grace thinks best with tactile information. TEXTURE
- 70. There are at least 8 intelligences: • verbal • logical • spatial (visual) • kinesthetic • musical/rhythmic • interpersonal (people smart) • intrapersonal (self smart) • naturalist (includes nature smart and the ability to compare and classify) Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences:
- 71. There are at least 8 intelligences: • verbal • logical • spatial (visual) • kinesthetic • musical/rhythmic • interpersonal (people smart) • intrapersonal (self smart) • naturalist (includes nature smart and the ability to compare and classify) These are the ones we are rewarding in schools.
- 72. When we design curricula and programs, we begin with the child, not with the information. This shift is subtle, but profound.
- 73. New World Kids basic formula: 1. Teach the Sensory Alphabet using the creative thinking processes.
- 74. 2. Decipher each child’s creative strengths.
- 75. 3. Provide materials and experiences that resonate with those strengths.
- 76. 4. Involve the parents and the community.
- 77. We invite you to join us in creating a literacy of creativity:
- 78. We need all the children now, ready to invent the new world.
- 79. You’re the ones!
- 80. See The Missing Alphabet for more information. © The Foundry, 2014