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Conceptual Understanding is the bridge to the innovation and creativity needed to joyfully solve problems and thrive in a future with artificial intelligence and countless unfamiliar contexts...
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Gone are the days of students sitting in queues, taking notes while staring at a back of a teacher who is writing on a black board...
Gone are the days of students sitting in queues, taking notes while staring at a back of a teacher who is writing on a black board...
Or is that just wishful thinking?
We want to answer the question...
We want to answer the question...
"What is the difference between 'knowledge' and 'understanding'?"
"What is the difference between 'knowledge' and 'understanding'?"
While watching this tube, I came to realize why I educate/mentor the way that I do...
“Jack of all trades, master of none,” the saying goes. But it is culturally telling that we have chopped off the ending: “…but oftentimes better than master of one.”
In a society hyper-focused on head-starts, we are told to choose our paths early, focus narrowly, and start racking up our 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. But a mountain of research shows that, among people who end up fulfilled and successful, early specialization is the exception, not the rule.
Winding paths and mental meandering can be sources of power, not disadvantages, but we rarely hear those stories. David is trying to change this.
Dr. K is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and cofounder of Healthy Gamer. He designs mental health education and coaching for young people to understand their minds and build the lives they want.
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Don’t take the prodigy pathway. David Epstein says become a broad thinker instead.
The idea for Nintendo’s Game Boy system was born from a philosophy that had a much less catchy name: lateral thinking with withered technology. The term was coined by Gunpei Yokoi, a Nintendo employee who started at the company with a similarly dry job: machine maintenance worker. One day, a Nintendo executive noticed that Yokoi had built a simple extendable-arm-grabber toy in his free time. Let’s sell it, the executive said. It became a small hit. Yokoi was eventually promoted to help build out the company’s video game business. But he recognized that he didn’t have the expertise to advance the cutting edge of the video game world. So he decided on a very specific strategy: take already well-understood knowledge and technology from different domains and combine them in unique ways to create new products. The result was the Game Boy. In this interview with Big Think, David Epstein, author of the 2019 book "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World," explains how lateral thinking — a type of thinking where you approach problems from non-obvious angles — is a problem-solving strategy that’s surprisingly well-suited for our fast-changing world.
The smartest people have mastered these 6 core skills | Michael Watkins for Big Think+
“I'm often asked, “Are great strategic thinkers born, or are they made?” And my answer is always yes. Like so many valuable human capabilities, it’s a mixture of nature, nurture, and experience.”
Strategic thinking has always been a critical skill at the top: Leaders must be able to recognize emerging challenges and opportunities, establish the right priorities, and critically mobilize their people to adapt to the many changes that are going on. Michael Watkins, author of The 6 Disciplines of Strategic Thinking, has defined six key mental disciplines that underlie our ability to recognize, prioritize, and mobilize. Want to become the smartest person in the room and a better leader at work? Implement these six core skills to master your mind.
How to be a creative thinker | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh
Have you ever wondered whether you lack creativity? Po-Shen Loh, a social entrepreneur, illuminates issues within the education system while instructing tens of thousands of diverse students. Serving as a U.S. Math Olympiad coach and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he endeavors to tackle these problems. He has developed a captivating educational system, reminiscent of Twitch game streaming. Explore the significant challenges and their solutions in the video.
My name is Zach. I’m a fourth-year medical student in Philadelphia. I make videos about medical school, studying, and growth. I love trying new things and often mess up. However, every time I screw up I usually learn something. Whatever I learn I post it either on YouTube or on my website 🌐 (https://zhighley.com/).
The Feynman (pronounced "Fine-man") technique has changed my life. Reviewing all the study methods I've ever used, this technique easily secures a place as one of my top five study methods. The basics of the technique are that you try to explain a complicated topic in simplified terms, allowing you to better understand the complex topic. Pretty simple right? I thought so. The only problem is that my grades went down when I first started using it, and my time spent studying went up; what was I doing wrong?
PROCRASTINATION...
PROCRASTINATION...
ATLs - Apporaches To Learning
ATLs - Apporaches To Learning
The IB Approaches To Learning Skills (ATL) are grounded in the awareness that learning how to learn is fundamental to a student’s life in and out of a school context.
In broad terms, IB programmes support learners in developing:
- Thinking Skills
Critcal
Creative
Transfer
- Communication Skills
Interaction
Language
- Research Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
- Self-management Skills
Oragnization
Affective
Reflective
- Social Skills
Collaboration
Social
The Approaches To Learning and associated sub-skills support students of all ages in being agentic and self-regulated learners. Through a variety of strategies and tactics, teachers collaboratively plan for implicit and explicit opportunities to develop ATLs both inside and outside the programme of inquiry.
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