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presentation from Masada College Culture of Thinking Conference 2012TRANSCRIPT
“The most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.”
James Watson – Nobel Prize for discovering DNA
How does all this stuff work?
sequential simultaneous
text context
My Sneaking Tears by M SlaughterHow heavy fell the rain that dayFrom burdened clouds of mournful grey.The torrent forced them stay their height -Composure swayed by onerous might.
My skin wrung wet with icy chillAs mud embraced that sodden hill.But mind of mine had elsewhere gone -'Twas clouds abandoned I was on.
The driving drops advanced their gearsTo camouflage my sneaking tears -Whence now did swell such floods of painTo see me melt into this rain…
“Together they forge an elaborate network of some one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) connections that guides how we talk, eat, breathe and move.” Dan Pink 2005
Dan Pink
Agricultural Age to Industrial Age to Information Age to
Conceptual Age
Information Age (L Directed Learning)
Information, content was key
number crunchers
Standardised testing, rote learning, no questioning
Business degrees
Mechanical thinking – factories, production lines..
Right Brainers Will Rule the Future(the Conceptual
Age) Abundance
Asia
Automaton Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
Can a computer do it faster?
Is what I’m offering in demand?
“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist,Using technologies that haven’t been invented,In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
- Karl Fisch
So marrying the two together gives us the best learning and the best creative outcomes and the creative minds we create/guide today will guide the future directions of
our society.
but
Aren’t some subjects just ‘left brain’ sort of areas?
Is this stuff changeable?
Statistics surround us..
They explain, query, state our
- habits, political persuasion,
- human existence,
- natural limits,
- natural world….
- We should all identify with Statistics because
(apologies for the grammar) they are us!
So why … when some students are
asked about what their favourite
Maths area is they rarely say
Stats/Data??
Australian Bureau of Statistics
From cat. no. 4910.0 - Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities, Australia,
Apr 2009 (Data Cube, Table 1)Dataset S14: Children Participating in Selected Activities, By sex–2003, 2006 and 2009
PARTICIPATION RATE (%)
MALES 2003 2006 2009
Participation in organised cultural activities (a)
Playing a musical instrument 13.2 17.6 18.7
Singing 2.3 2.9 3.1
Dancing 1.6 2.4 3.0
Drama 2.3 2.8 2.8
At least one selected organised cultural activity (b) 16.8 21.7 23.0
Participation in organised sports (excluding dancing) (a)
Swimming 15.7 16.5 17.2
Soccer (outdoor) 22.2 19.6 19.9
Australian Rules football 13.6 13.8 16.0
Netball 0.6 *0.1 *0.3
Tennis 9.5 8.0 9.4
Basketball 8.6 7.4 8.5
Martial arts 6.2 6.1 7.5
Cricket (outdoor) 9.1 10.1 9.7
Gymnastics 1.7 1.6 1.7
Rugby League 5.6 7.9 7.0
Athletics, track and field 3.8 2.6 3.0
Soccer (indoor) 1.9 3.3 4.3
Hockey 2.5 1.7 1.8
Other organised sports 15.5 17.5 15.8
At least one organised sport (b) 68.6 68.8 69.6
Organised sports and/or dancing (c) 69.0 69.4 70.4
http://www.census.gov/schools/census_for_kids/census_for_kids.html?
data + story + design
Design
Story
Empathy
Symphony
Info
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Creating infographics with kids Wordle/Tagxedo
Excel/Numbers/Google Docs
Many Eyes
Hohli: Online Chart Builders
StatPlanet Map Builder
Publisher/Glogster/Photoshop/picnik etc..
Cartooning sites
Visualize (iPad app)
Stephen Covey’s Habits of Highly Effective People – The Leader in Me Program
Flisti - A simple poll creator that allows
users to share w/ popular social networks.
Obsurvey - A great site w/ a
wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys w/ different styles of questions (multiple choice, true/false, etc.).
Survey Monkey -
One of the best online sites for creating surveys. The free version offers 10 questions per survey, up to a 100 responses, and real-time results.
Vorbeo - A very easy to use site that lets users
embed a poll directly into their blog/website.
Ask 500 – my personal favourite because it
brings up the map of where people are voting from. We can have fabulous conversations about population pools and the kids get a kick when their question is ‘hosted’.
Poll Everywhere – can be used with
staff, kids on computers (or phones if you have a liberal school).
Unrealfooty.com
Teaching to think and utilising left and right
brain capabilities will be the gate keepers of
success for the future
“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist,Using technologies that haven’t been invented,In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
- Karl Fisch