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Why Does Professor Gardner believe our future requires these 5 minds?
Individuals without one or more disciplines will not be able to succeed at any demanding workplace and will be restricted to menial tasks. Individuals without creating capabilities will be replaces by computers and will drive away those who do have the creative spark. Individuals without ethics will yield a world devoid of decent workers And responsible citizens none of us will want to live on the desolute planet.
Individuals without synthesizing capabilities will be overwhelmed by information and unable to make judicious decisions about personal or professional matters.
Individuals without respect will not be worthy of respect by others and will poison the workplace and the commons.
Mastery of at least one way of thinking a distinctive mode of cognition that characterizes a specific scholarly discipline, craft, or profession. (Gardner, pg.3)
Confirmed by numerous studies, to master a discipline requires at least 10 years of study and practice. Students must see information not as an end in itself or as a stepping stone to more advanced types of information, but rather a means to a better practice. (Gardner, pg. 30) A vital reason for work in disciplinary knowledge is as the learner gains more understanding, the desire to learn more becomes a yearning.
Most important, set up performance s of understanding and give students opportunities to perform their understandings under a variety of conditions.
(Gardner, Pgs 32-34)
Marie Curie
John Keats
Chose medicine as a profession and became a surgeon but spent most of his time in literary study. Became an accomplished poet in his short life of 26 years.
1795 - 1821
Takes information from disparate sources, understands and evaluates that information objectively, and puts it together in ways that make sense to the synthesizer and also to other persons. (Gardner, pg.3)
Kinds of Synthesis
Narratives
Complex Concepts
Picassos Guernica
Aristotle
The Great Philosopher(Pg.46) Born 384 B.C.-Died 322 B.C. Studied under Plato Developed processes that would eventually lead to the conjecture of the Scientific Method.
Former President Bill Clinton- I think intellect is a good
thing unless it paralyzes your ability to make decisions because you see too much complexity. Presidents need to have what I would call a synthesizing intelligence. (Gardner, pg. 75)
It brings forth new ideas, poses unfamiliar questions, conjures up fresh ways of thinking, arrives at unexpected answers. (pg.3)
WE as parents, educators, and community members, must take care to nourish the seeds of creativity.
Martha Graham
(1894-1991) American dancer, choreographer,
and teacher, was a world leading innovator of modern dance. Founder of: Dance Repertory Theater in New York; Bennington School of Arts at Bennington College in Vermont, and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft Software Company Philanthropist in areas of global health and learning Self-made billionaire.
Responding sympathetically and constructively to differences among groups; seeking to understand and work with those who are different; extending beyond mere tolerance and political correctness. (Gardner, pg.157)
Messages of respect or disrespect, tolerance or intolerance are signaled throughout a society. (Gardner, pg. 111)
http://www.edutopia.org/night-globalvillage
Abstracting crucial features of ones role at work and ones role as a citizen and acting consistently with those conceptualizations; striving toward good work and good citizenship. (pg.158)
We as educators cannot guide children to good work because the children do not know what work they will be doing in the future. But as role models we can provide the examples to grow to the ethical mind of good work.
Ethics
Creativity goes hand in glove with disciplinary thinking. (Gardner Pg. 162)
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Gardner, H. (2008). 5 Minds for the Future. Boston: Harvard Business Press. Gardner, H. (Director). (2009). 5 Minds for the Future [Online video]. Usable Knowledge Harvard Graduate School. Retrieved June 16, 2009,from http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/teaching/video-teachTC106-607uk_hg_hu_mind.html Ma, Y. (2009). Silk Road Project. Retrieved June 16, 2009, fromhttp://silkroadproject.org