PINK - Play 09/08/2010
 
I have just been doing some reading on this for my Masters.  Some really good articles that highlight the importance of Play in children's education.  Here is what Daniel Pink thinks...

 P179 Brain Sutton – Smith - professor Education University of Education- The opposite of play isn’t work. It is depression.  To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects. Homo ludens – man the player

 Humour is showing it self as an accurate marker for managerial effectiveness, emotional intelligence,

 Albert Einstein – Games are the most elevated forms of investigation

 Video gaming – big business

 P185 -John Paul Gee What Video Games have to teach us about Learning and Literacy Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 – p 205 “ Learning is about memorizing isolated facts. It is about connecting and manipulating them.”

  Pat Kane  Play Ethic – Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the last 300 years of industrial society – our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value.Right H Brain is essential for understanding humourP190 – P. Shammi and D. Stuss, Humour Appreciation: A Role of the Right Frontal Lobe, Brain 1999 vol 122 p 663 Humour represents one of the highest forms of intelligence.  P 190 – the most effective executives employ humour twice as often as middle of the pack

 The importance of laughter. P 195 – can decrease stress hormones and boost the immune system Laughter links with social relationships – we rarely laugh alone Laughing creates more creative peoplewww.laughteryoga.org humour scale – tinyurl.com/6t7ff www.inventionatplay.org

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PINK - Empathy 09/08/2010
 
Empathy is an very important skill.  Not  all people develop it.  Theatre is an area where students can. Here are some key points from Pink.
 
 P153 “ empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s position and intuit what that person is feeling” – walking in someone else’s shoes; mimic behaviour
Sympathy – feeling bad for someone else

 P 154 – Oprah Winfrey “ Leadership is about empathy.  It is about having the ability to relate and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives”Computers cannot produce empathy

 P 156- facial expressions are universal – Charles Darwin, Paul Ekman  Test yourself – Empathy Q – www.tinyurl.com/9qdi www.nte.com/interact/eiq www.tinyurl.com/277vm

 

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  P126 – is the ability to put together pieces – synthesis rather than analyse; to see the relationships is seeming unrelated fields

P127 – Brain Bromeisler “ Drawing is about relationships”

Becoming adept at analogy – seeing one thing in terms of another

p130 – Three types of people – “ the boundary crosser, the inventor, and the metaphor maker”

 p131 - Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi – Creativity – Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. – The most creative of us see relationships that most of us never notice

P131Designer Clement Mok “ the next 10 years will require people to think and work across boundaries into new zones that are totally different from their areas of expertise’

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Great minds are androgynous

Trevor baylis – the key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts.  Convention is the enemy of progress.

P 135 -Twyla Tharp – Metaphor is the lifeblood of art.  Everything you create is a representation of something else” The idea of a MQ – metaphoric quotient

Pattern recognition

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This a new book that I am reading - I think it has lots of interesting points
  Pink, Daniel, H A Whole New Mind, New York, RiverHead Books -Penguin Group 2005. Print ISBN – 1 – 57322-308-5

P1 – The future belongs to very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.  These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big pictures thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joy.

P17

1.    The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body; the right hemisphere controls the left side of the body

2.     L H is sequential; R H is simultaneous

3.     LH specializes in text; the R H specializes in context – RH is responsible for understanding metaphors

4.      L H analyses the details; R H synthesizes the big picture

P28 Abundance, Asia and Automation

P 51 three questions – 1. Can someone overseas do it cheaper? 2. Can a computer do it faster?  3 is what I am offering in demand in an age of abundance?

 P 55 more Americans today work in arts, entertainment and design than work as lawyers, accountants and auditors – “2002 National Cross Industry Estimates of employment and Mean Annual Wage for SOC Major Occupational groups” Occupational Employment Statistics Program, Bureau of labor Statistics – www.bls.gov/oes/home.htm

  P 61 aptitudes “the six senses”. Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning.

  P65

1.     Not just function but also Design – must be beautiful or emotionally engaging

2.     Not just argument – story – p 66 the essence of persuasion, communication and self understanding

3.     Focus – symphony – seeing the big picture, crossing boundaries

4.     Logic – empathy – to understand what makes their fellows tick, forge relationships and to care for others

5.     Play – need to play – best bosses have humour

6.     Meaning

 




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