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Interactive Workshop by Ewing Coleman Green EDD 8260 CRN 50099

Interactive Workshop by Ewing Coleman Green EDD 8260 CRN 50099 Linking Learning and Leadership to Brain Research Nova Southeastern University August 4 , 2013. Welcome!. Turn Right for Whole Brain Learning Interactive Workshop. 21 st Century Learning.

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Interactive Workshop by Ewing Coleman Green EDD 8260 CRN 50099

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  1. Interactive Workshop by Ewing Coleman Green EDD 8260 CRN 50099 Linking Learning and Leadership to Brain Research Nova Southeastern University August 4, 2013

  2. Welcome! Turn Right for Whole Brain Learning Interactive Workshop

  3. 21st Century Learning Emphasis on the right hemisphere

  4. The Past • Pink (2006) suggested: • The 20th century • Primarily logic, sequence, and analytical skills • Advances in science, engineering, and finance (flight, energy generation, capital deployment, globalization) • Age of computing, language of code • Information technology • Focus on product function Left brain powered

  5. The Future • Pink (2006) argued: • The 21stcentury promises to place a premium on • Intuitive and holistic thinking supported by logic and analysis • Big picture perspective • Age of conceptual thinking, language of story • Forming creative connections • Collaboration • Focus on product design Right brain powered

  6. The Future (cont’d) • Black and Gregersen (2008) argued: • People develop mental maps based on experience • 20th century perspective tended to be self-centric and fixed • 21st centuryperspective must be juxtapositional and integrated • Larger context, contrasting, flexible, and empathetic • Requires collaborative seeing, moving, finishing Right brain powered

  7. Neuroscience • Advances in brain analysis using techniques such as fMRI, PET, and SPECT are pinpointing brain functioning • Executive functioning of the frontal lobes over distributed cognition • Integrated yet distinct functioning of the left and right hemispheres

  8. Neuroscience (cont’d) • Goldberg (2009) reported: • Left hemisphere primarily handles • Logic • Sequence • Activating established routines • Analysis • Right hemisphere primarily handles • Context • Synthesis • Formulating creative solutions • Emotional expression

  9. Left vs. Right

  10. Left vs. Right (cont’d)

  11. Right brain engagers • Big picture • Emotional expression • Flexible grouping • Differentiation • Collaborative discussion • Drawing

  12. Right brain engagers (cont’d) • Painting • Mind mapping • Student relevancy • Humor • Games • Creative repetition

  13. Education needs to ‘turn right’ • The research, 21st century workforce requirements, and advances in neuroscience all point to the need for greater development and deployment of the right hemisphere • Education has a key role to play • Teacher professional development and student learning engagement must focus more on the right brain

  14. Turn Right for Whole Brain Learning 21st Century Educational Superhighway

  15. Workshop Sessions • 7 right brain oriented purposeful sessions • 45 minute duration with discussion • Stage: movement and dance — focused on big picture, emotional expression, and flexible grouping • Second floor: music— focused on differentiation and collaborative discussion • Side room: art — focused on drawing, painting and mind mapping

  16. Sessions (cont’d) • Side rooms and both tiers of lobby: (4)— two sessions each focused on the core subjects (language arts, social studies, math, and science • Cross-disciplinary content using multi-media audiovisuals • Emphasis on student-relevancy, humor, games, and creative repetition

  17. Workshop Content • Clockwise foot + 6 • Consider these words • Vocabulary builder • Albert Einstein – for fun • What do you see? • More on the sides • Man in the coffee beans

  18. Workshop Content (cont’d) • Man looking in which direction • Spinning girl • Core subject example – Algebra

  19. Clockwise foot + 6 • Sitting where you are, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it

  20. Now… • Keep doing this, and draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand

  21. Well? • Did you foot change directions and begin rotating counter clockwise involuntarily?

  22. Reflection Questions • Why did this happen? • Which side of our brain controls the right side of our bodies? • Which direction does our right hand move in drawing the number 6? • What causes this phenomenon? (please respond…)

  23. Consider these words left brain right brain • How many words do you see?

  24. Are there 4? left brain right brain • 4 > left, brain, right, brain

  25. Slightly different question left brain right brain • How many different words do you see?

  26. Are there 3? • 3 > left, brain, right

  27. Slightly different question Left brain right brain • Without rearranging the letters, how many different words do you see?

  28. Are there 7? left brain right brain • 7 > left, brain, right, rain, bra, in, rig

  29. Reflection Questions • Why do the answers amongst us differ? • What is the influence of question form? • Since language is a dual hemispheric endeavor how does individual hemispheric functioning reveal itself here? (please respond…)

  30. Vocabulary builder • Heuristic— • Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves • i.e., a hands-on or interactive heuristic approach to learning New Oxford American Dictionary, MacBook Pro • This builds a person’s sense of self-efficacy Bandura (1977, 1997)

  31. Albert Einstein • “Imagination is more important than knowledge”

  32. What do you see?

  33. A goblet, two opposing faces, or both?

  34. Now…try this • Move your eyes back and forth from the black facial images, left to right, right to left, and so on back and forth a few times…

  35. Do you feel it? • Do you feel your occipital lobe working to make sense of the image and fix one representation? • You are exercising your brain and seriously engaging your corpus collosum!

  36. More on the sides…

  37. This one is tough • Can you find the man in the coffee beans?

  38. Here he is…

  39. Perhaps… • The man in the coffee beans overloads our brain and locks our right brain in an endless loop • There are excessive possibilities given the coloration, varying bean shapes, and combinations of clusters • Success is found here by engaging more of the left brain

  40. One more visual… • Is the man looking at you or to his right?

  41. Spinning Girl

  42. Clockwise or Counter Clockwise? • Spinning girl URL • http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/

  43. One more time… • Spinning girl URL • http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/left-brain-right-brain-and-the-spinning-girl/ • Hint: Look down at the reflection in the floor for a while and your brain may reverse the rotation from clockwise to counter clockwise

  44. These exercises serve to… • provide evidence of the gradiental, highly distributed nature of our brains operating in a massively parallel and interconnected way (Goldberg, 2009, p. 59) • help you feel and practice loaded right hemispheric functioning

  45. Core Subject Example-- Algebra • How to make learning quadratics fun! • Let’s play with gravity! • Basic mathematics model: • What the heck does that mean and how do you use it in real life??

  46. Team Ball Toss

  47. Making the connection

  48. Making the connection (cont’d)

  49. Making the connection (cont’d)

  50. Conclusion • Turn right for whole brain learning! • Maximizes cognition • Prepares students for 21st century demands

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