Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
This is the second in a special Edutopia blog series about developing 21st century skills through project-based learning. In the first post, "Yes, You Can Teach and Assess Creativity! 
Scoop.it!
How To Prepare Students For 21st Century Survival
===> As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. <=== We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course, there are the less tangible skills we teach; such as how to work in a team, think critically, and be curious about the things they encounter each day.
Gust MEES's insight:
===> As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. <=== We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course, there are the less tangible skills we teach; such as how to work in a team, think critically, and be curious about the things they encounter each day. Check also: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Social-Learning - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
|
Scoop.it!
Scientists are always uncovering new ways into how people learn best, and some of the most recent neuroscience research has shown connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses.
Students’ social and emotional reactions to learning are imperative to feeling motivated to learn and to their ability to creatively solve problems, according to Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, who wrote Musings on the Neurobiological and Evolutionary Origins of Creativity via a Developmental Analysis of One Child’s Poetry [PDF]. Her research tries to understand why emotions are so important to learning by examining what happens to brain functions.
“Neuroimaging experiments show us that we use the very same neural systems to feel our bodies as to feel our relationships, our moral judgments, and our creative inspiration,” said Immordino-Yang, a professor at USC’s Rossier School of Education and an expert on the neuroscience of learning and creativity.
Her whose work focuses on how neuroscience can help teachers understand the ways students learn best, and to that end, she’s created a free online curriculum for teachers.
Gust MEES's insight:
Allowing kids the space for the interplay between the emotional and cognitive spaces will benefit the long-term learner. Check also: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Emotional-Intelligence - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
|
An inspiring project-based learning opportunity!