Thursday, January 11, 2007
AN ECONOMY BUILT ON HORIZONTAL THOUGHT?
An interesting PDF -"Creating Creative Children" by the Drs. Eide of The Neurolearning Blog, cites shifts in the information economy as creating demand for insight-generating, horizontal thinkers with what the Eides term "creative expertise", and a (relative) economic devaluation of vertical thinking niche experts.
While the Eides are using some different terms than I have on past posts on cognition, metacognition, creativity and learning, they have a document that is conceptually rich and in which I find substantial agreement. Their points on the importance of visualization and tolerance for ambiguity in are only part of a collection of " ten habits" that serve as categories of cognitive strategies. A much larger brief in terms of scope than the title suggests.
Well worth your time.
LINKS:
Steve DeAngelis - Pattern Recognizers and Solution Simplifiers , The Medici Effect
Zenpundit -Creating a Culture of Mediciexity, Complexity vs. Simplification in Cognition ¶ 7:36 PM
An interesting PDF -"Creating Creative Children" by the Drs. Eide of The Neurolearning Blog, cites shifts in the information economy as creating demand for insight-generating, horizontal thinkers with what the Eides term "creative expertise", and a (relative) economic devaluation of vertical thinking niche experts.
While the Eides are using some different terms than I have on past posts on cognition, metacognition, creativity and learning, they have a document that is conceptually rich and in which I find substantial agreement. Their points on the importance of visualization and tolerance for ambiguity in are only part of a collection of " ten habits" that serve as categories of cognitive strategies. A much larger brief in terms of scope than the title suggests.
Well worth your time.
LINKS:
Steve DeAngelis - Pattern Recognizers and Solution Simplifiers , The Medici Effect
Zenpundit -Creating a Culture of Mediciexity, Complexity vs. Simplification in Cognition ¶ 7:36 PM
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mark - this is a great presentation - the 10 habits are a powerful list to consider emphasizing in our educational system
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: Tuesday, 16 January, 2007
Hi Dave,
Yes, I agree. Having followed the Eide's blog from the start, these habits are based on neurological evidence drawn from meta-analysis of MRI-based and EEG brain research. A powerful base for extending into classroom practices - moreover, they are clinical research specialists with outlier subpopulations (gifted, dyslexics, autism, learning disability) which gives an excellent perspective on "average" populations ( many conditions may simply be on the extreme end of a spectrum that segways into " normal" patterns of cognition)
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Yes, I agree. Having followed the Eide's blog from the start, these habits are based on neurological evidence drawn from meta-analysis of MRI-based and EEG brain research. A powerful base for extending into classroom practices - moreover, they are clinical research specialists with outlier subpopulations (gifted, dyslexics, autism, learning disability) which gives an excellent perspective on "average" populations ( many conditions may simply be on the extreme end of a spectrum that segways into " normal" patterns of cognition)
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