This is a great article on using the arts in education. It definitely taps the Right Brain of young learners. It focuses on the “Opening Minds Through the Arts” (OMA) program. In this program, opera singers, musicians, and visual artists combine their talents to help core educators teach curriculum. While students may find it...
I ran into this article while researching social media in the classroom. It looks at Skype for learning a foreign language, as well as Twitter and mobile phones for student communication. I think that finding ways to use this technology in a productive manner is critical. Not only does it develop the empathy attitude...
When I first came across this article I immediately thought of Dan Pink’s Meaning and Empathy aptitudes from A Whole New Mind. What an excellent example of offering meaning to young people and senior citizens. If you read through to the question-answer session, you can easily see how students were enhancing their empathy.
What a great application of an old storytelling idea. Collaborative storytelling with Twitter. I think this ideas covers Story, Empathy, and Symphony from Dan Pink’s AWNM aptitudes. I really am chasing the idea of using the back channel in the classroom. With the disaggregation of information through handheld devices and social networking, the challenge...
I ran into this great video about Micro-Lending and how high school students are becoming involved in the practice. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, it is based on the book Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is an economist and banker from Bangladesh...
This is a student example of a story board created about Pullman Illinois. I had students read one section from the text and complete a graphic organizer. Then I took students to a large panel of windows and had them use dry erase markers to draw out that section using any pictures they wanted...
I found this clip when I was thinking about content creation. People today, young and old, are used to creating content. Wikis, online collaboration, social media, Twitter, the list goes on and on. But people are creating the content. So in education, how do we incorporate that? It’s a pretty scary thought for myself...
This is something that truly, in my opinion, limits students and flies directly in the face of A Whole New Mind. This video explores a Virginia middle school that is separating their classrooms by gender. True to obvious stereotypes, the boys’ rooms focus on competition and physical movement. The girls’ rooms focus on cooperation....
Here’s a great case for developing Daniel Pink’s Empathy aptitude. If you read through to the last part of the article, you will see what I’m getting at. Within eight years, almost 24% of the workforce will be over the the age of 55. Nearly 13% of workers will be between the ages of...
PoliticalCartoons.com Homepage. What a great way to develop empathy. I’ve used some of these cartoons at PoliticalCartoons.com, which are very reasonably priced. But if you are looking for an angle to teach empathy in history, go to the Library of Congress site and use their resources. Their analysis guide is outstanding. I use it...
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