This summer I am taking another course and, as always happens, I find it is interesting to see that the latest thinking is  on education information, methods and materials. Right now I am reading a book called  Whole New Mind by Dan Pink and it summarized and explains in a very clear way the thoughts on Right brain thinking and Left brain thinking. As science discovers more information on how the brain works, the information will be used by educators to see if we are doing the best job we can for our students (and ourselves!).

The book also does a terrific job on summarizing how we used to teach and the purposes we were trying to achieve to what we need to accept as our goals now and, correspondingly, accept changes in our methods. No one recommends throwing out everything we did in the past, but we do need to rethink what and how we want out kids to learn if we intend to help them be successful in the century in which we live now.