Howard+Gardner


 * Five Minds for the Future: What they are and how to Nurture Them **

Four Mega-trends in the Future of Learning:
 * Globalization: increasing connectedness of the planet
 * Biological Revolution: we know more about the brain than ever before
 * Digital Revolution: information sources at our fingertips...knowing how to evaluate them
 * Lifelong Learning

They include:
 * __The Disciplinary Mind__: the mastery of major schools of thought, including science, mathematics, and history, and of at least one professional craft. (DEPTH)
 * working steadily and improving
 * becoming an expert
 * learning major ways of thinking: historical, artistic, scientific, mathematical
 * Each discipline features its own __methods__--at a time of information glut, methods become even more essential
 * We cannot look up the methods of our discipline on our smart phones...


 * __The Synthesizing Mind__: the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others. (BREADTH)
 * Has to pay attention to what is good, not so good, what you learned
 * In an age of so much information, synthesis is crucial
 * Method strategies should be shared: what are some ways to do this?

A few years ago, Gardner says he would've stopped with the above three...but due to world changes, he feels compelled to add these:
 * __The Creating Mind__: the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena. (STRETCH)
 * Thinking outside the box...what is the box? Synthesizing what is known (the box itself)
 * Ultimate judgment of "the field"
 * Creativity is about the willingness to fail and try again
 * Should we be trying to cultivate creativity in our schools?
 * Innovations laboratory just opened at Harvard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Gardner thinks that American education already fosters some of these things


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;">__The Respectful Mind__: awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups.
 * Beyond mere tolerance
 * In a global world, we have to be so much more aware of this
 * establish respectful institutional culture--especially important if messages at home or on the street are different


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;">__The Ethical Mind__: fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;">Educators should create a "commons" where students, teachers, and staff can reflect on dilemmas and how they could best be solved and lessons learned--old and young cooperate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-left;">Important to teach cyber citizenship