Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Game Focused School to Open in New York - Fall of 09
Any plans to open a school out west?
New York to open game-focused school this fall
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Is conceptual thinking catching on?
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Games May be the Key for Teachers
"What if every type of learner, every student would find a niche or a unique way to demonstrate their understanding of the material? Since this was a world history class, they would have to learn history, geography and some 40 chapters of a textbook. Could this be accomplished by playing a game?"
You can read the story of Global Challenge here.
Thanks to Brent Pottenger and Brian Geremia at Academic Impact for their encouragement and support of this article, Mike Powers for his on-going “technical support” - and Britt Easterling and Katie Murphy for their feedback and enthusiasm. Special thanks are also in order for family and friends.
I also appreciate the help with editing and guidance provided by Colleen Belcher and Ben Ilfield at Sacramento Press
Friday, August 21, 2009
More Companies are Allowing for Creative Time
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Right Brain Meetings
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The New Economy and the Right Brain
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Check out the new Global Challenge website!
Why post this on Right Brain World? If you’re a right brain student, it’s sometimes easier and more interesting to learn through projects. During the playing of Global Challenge, it's often important to be a big concept thinker. Your vision or understanding of where things are headed could help guide students who do not see things in this way. Left brain students are sure to thrive too, since their keen skills in analysis are necessary to getting many things done in the game. You'll quickly find out how much the two "hemispheres" need one another.
Here’s a quick analysis:
Right brain students will see historical patterns, put together creative plans, help create team logos, theme music, design currency, formulate plots, or interpret the behavior of other players.
Left brain students will enjoy calculating strategies based on per capita incomes, put together spread sheets to keep track of money, points, armies, teams, facts, etc. They will help in providing the much needed order and structure to keep the game moving forward.
The great part about this game, honestly, is that there is something for every type of learner.
If you’re a creative teacher, you’ll be free to integrate the arts. Have your students create theme songs, design team logos or a new look for the classroom itself. If you’re into the idea of integrating technology, then you may want to find creative ways to use Facebook or Twitter, create a class blog or wiki. It’s all up to you. Global Challenge will provide you the overall framework – and you can take it from there.
I hope you will give it a try.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Creativity Test
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Right brain will steer you through chaos
Monday, July 27, 2009
Jill Bolte Taylor and Her "Stroke of Insight."
Monday, July 20, 2009
Why do we give standardized tests to "right brained" people?
In other words, is it fair to give right brain people left-brain oriented IQ tests and college entrance exams like the SAT?
Thus, the new study shows that basic differences in brain activity between creative and methodical problem solvers exist and are evident even when these individuals are not working on a problem. According to Kounios, “Problem solving, whether creative or methodical, doesn’t begin from scratch when a person starts to work on a problem. His or her pre-existing brain-state biases a person to use a creative or a methodical strategy.”
Take a look at this last line. One way to interpret this is that a right brain person taking a standardized test will naturally try to be creative in answering a question. The only problem is that on many of these problems, it’s not necessary and will probably slow you down!
Solution: begin work on creating a whole brain standardized test or consider giving different types of tests to people who classify themselves as “right brained.”
Source: posted by Rebecca Sato on The Daily Galaxy (link is on the title of this post).
Study: Kounios, J., Fleck, J.I., Green, D.L., Payne, L., Stevenson, J.L., Bowden, M., & Jung- Beeman, M. (2008). The origins of insight in resting-state brain activity. Neuropsychologia, 46, 281-291.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Will Wright Talks About Games and Education
Monday, June 29, 2009
It's Time to be Inventive
"Therefore, the country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter and more innovative — and endows its people with more tools and basic research to invent new goods and services — is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road."
Read more here.
Thanks to Lincoln Rolls for the link.