Daniel+Pink


 * Tuesday** **AM Keynote**

[|Daniel Pink] - Economics and Education: A Whole New Mind (SEE VIDEO at Bottom of Page)
 * misalignment between what is going on in the economy and what is going on in the work place
 * focus on brain function
 * abilities that have many people successful have been left brain function - logic, linear - still absolutely necessary - must have them
 * today - right brain functions are now equally important -
 * argument
 * Scales on the left brain qualities are titling - Asia (off shoring), Automation (machines replace back,software replaces brain), Abundance
 * Routine work is disappearing from our country - racing to the cheapest provider - left brain tasks are often routine...
 * Left-brain tasks are often automated -uncontested divorce example, tax prep
 * Level of abundance has continued to move up despite the current economic situation - tvs, cars example (22.6 billion $ business - self storage industry - bigger than the entertainment industry)
 * Big bold invented products and events occur in downturns
 * To make it today
 * can someone do it cheaper?
 * can computer do it faster?
 * demand in age of abundance?
 * Hard to send overseas
 * High tech/high concept
 * Novelty, Nuance, Customization
 * Schools
 * routines, right answers, standardizations - prepare for past not the future
 * teachers get this!
 * 6 abilities
 * design - not function
 * story - not just argument
 * symphony - see the big picture
 * empathy - feel/see with others - not just logic
 * play - not just seriousness
 * meaning - not just accumulation
 * Education
 * experiment with new metrics - ways of measuring (Dan Goleman quote - IQ vs other characteristics)
 * Rainbow project - alternative SAT - better predictor of college grades than trad SATs, racial gap closes
 * JSPE - Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy - score correlate with patient outcomes, no correlation with
 * get real about STEM (Science, Tech, Engineer, Math) - only concerned with the right answer
 * real STEM - med students going to art museums to learn about the observation skills of an artist (toggle between left and right brain)
 * "non-routine savants"
 * what does creativity mean chart - (see it on website)
 * problem solving vs problem identification
 * tear down those walls - multi-(disciplinary, lingual, platform, cultural)
 * infuse arts education throughout the curriculum - see things others don't see
 * promote and defend autonomy - especially teachers and students


 * "We need to prepare kids for their future, not our past."

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