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  • A Model for Right-brained Education

  • The age of left-brain dominated "knowledge workers" is fading. We are entering a new era where right-brain thinking will revolutionize the worker and the workplace. Educators can employ strategies to help students improve their right-brain thinking.

    Pink explains the six senses of right-brain ... Continue

    The age of left-brain dominated "knowledge workers" is fading. We are entering a new era where right-brain thinking will revolutionize the worker and the workplace. Educators can employ strategies to help students improve their right-brain thinking.

    Pink explains the six senses of right-brain thinking and includes exercises to develop them.

    DESIGN
    Design is everywhere and in everything. Today's technology makes design accessible to everyone. The rapid turnover of new products and technology calls for greater innovation in design.

    STORY
    Roger C. Schank, a cognitive scientist says, "Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories."Storytelling has always played a strong role in preserving cultural tradition. Stories are easily remembered because they not only capture information and knowledge, but context and emotion as well.

    SYMPHONY
    Symphony is the ability to synthesize; to put pieces together. People who thrive in this environment see relationships among diverse disciplines and bring those relationships together as new, innovative products.

    EMPATHY
    Empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's role and to attempt to experience what they are experiencing. Good leaders are those who can empathize with their constituents.

    PLAY
    Work and life in general has become too serious causing people to suffer the symptoms of mental and physical stress. The return of play and humor as exemplified in the explosive popularity of video gaming helps to relieve stress enabling workers to become more healthy and
    creative.

    MEANING
    What people are really looking for is not success or more money. What people are really seeking is meaning in their lives and work.

    

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From Publishers Weekly
Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. His advocacy of "R-directed thinking" begins with a bit of neuroscience tourism to a brain lab that will be extremely familiar to those who read Steven Johnson's Mind Wide Open last year, but while Johnson was fascinated by the brain's internal processes, Pink is more concerned with how certain skill sets can be harnessed effectively in the dawning "Conceptual Age." The second half of the book details the six "senses" Pink identifies as crucial to success in the new economy-design, story, symphony, empathy, play and meaning-while "portfolio" sections offer practical (and sometimes whimsical) advice on how to cultivate these skills within oneself. Thought-provoking moments abound-from the results of an intensive drawing workshop to the claim that "bad design" created the chaos of the 2000 presidential election-but the basic premise may still strike some as unproven. Furthermore, the warning that people who don't nurture their right brains "may miss out, or worse, suffer" in the economy of tomorrow comes off as alarmist. But since Pink's last big idea (Free Agent Nation) has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations, expect just as much buzz around his latest theory.
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