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Welcome to a wiki that I created to share information from the [|Learning and the Brain Conference] (November 17-20)

Top BIG ideas to emerge over these three days....
 * **Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity should be happening in the classroom everyday.**(Tony Wagner)
 * How often are your students required to do these things? //Circuit training for 21st century minds.//...


 * **"If you are not updating your curriculum, you are saying that nothing is changing in the world."**(Heidi Hayes-Jacobs)
 * Teachers can upgrade one unit at a time by asking, what tool or method can I use to achieve greater student learning in this skill area?


 * **"If an anthropologist came to your school and looked at the curriculum, the assessments, what was hanging on the walls, what the classroom spaces looked like, what year would they think your school was preparing kids for?**(Heidi Hayes-Jacobs)
 * Most schools, says Jacobs, should rewrite their mission statements to tell parents that they are preparing kids for 1982!! :)
 * **Teach students the deep thinking structures embedded in your discipline** (logic, conceptual thinking), but **put those deep structures in different forms** so that the learning is flexible and can be transferred. (Daniel Willingham)


 * **A conversation does not let you hide. It demands that you reveal yourself. We live in a communications culture that puts a greater premium on performing a self than being a self.** (Sherry Turkle)


 * **To train the ethical mind, people need spaces to reflect on dilemmas and how they can be best solved.** Educators should create a "commons" where students, teachers, and staff can do this with each other (Howard Gardner)

For in-depth notes on each of the following talks, click on the links provided:
 * Tony Wagner's Opening Keynote: "Teaching, Learning, and Leading in the 21st Century"
 * A general overview of how schools need to change to better prepare kids for the future they will face
 * Link to a [|Project] by Helen Neville, winner of award for Transforming Education through Neuroscience
 * Heidi Hayes Jacobs on __HOW__ to Upgrade your Curriculum
 * Charles Fadel : 21st Century Skills: The Imperative for Teaching Creativity and Innovation in Schools
 * Shelley Carson: Creative Brains: Maximizing Imagination and Innovation in Students // (Outstanding Information on Creativity!) //
 * Take a quiz to determine your natural creative brainsets: []
 * Judy Willis: Brain Research to Help Students Develop Their Highest Cognitive Potential ([])
 * Howard Gardner: Five Minds for the Future: What they are and how to nurture them
 * Daniel Willingham: Critical Thinking and 21st Century Skills
 * Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: A Meditation on the Future of Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

I will also be tweeting from the conference under [|@AudreyHolsten]