15 Fantastic Books By Women To Read This Fall. You’re 100 Percent Wrong About Critical Thinking. The many fractious factions in the American education wars fight over standardized tests, teacher pay and whether we are dumber than India and China or much, much dumber than India and China.
But they all agree on a single criticism of public schooling in the United States: Not enough critical thinking is being taught in our classrooms. In pure lexical terms, “critical thinking” is “the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment.” Translated into pedagogy, it’s teaching students to be intellectual mavericks, cognitive cowboys who poke bullet holes into every received concept, who duel with Aristotle and Dickinson, who are never complacent, submissive or even quiet. They brim with what Walt Whitman called “original energy.” Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week Our students, according to pretty much everyone, are crappy critical thinkers. Much has changed, at least in the national discussion. Look, you can be the most original, iconoclastic thinker out there. Books worth reading, recommended by Bill Gates, Susan Cain and more. Creativity Creative Confidence, by Tom Kelley and David Kelley Crown Business, 2013 Recommended by: Tim Brown (TED Talk: Designers — think big!)
“‘Creative confidence’ is the creative mindset that goes along with design thinking’s creative skill set.”See more of Tim Brown’s favorite books. Creating Minds, by Howard Gardner Basic Books, 2011 Recommended by: Roselinde Torres (TED Talk: What it takes to be a great leader) “Gardner’s book was first published more than twenty years ago, but its insights into the creative process — told through the stories of seven remarkable individuals from different fields — remain just as relevant today. While they shared some traits, they all followed different paths to success.”See more of Roselinde Torres’ favorite books. Design Happiness Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Your Money or Your Life, by Vicki Robin et al. 7 Hobbies Science Says Will Make You Smarter. For a long time, it was believed that people are born with a given level of intelligence and the best we could do in life was to live up to our potential.
Scientists have now proven that we can actually increase our potential and enjoy ourselves in the process. We now know that by learning new skills the brain creates new neural pathways that make it work faster and better. Here is a list of seven hobbies that make you smarter and why. 1. Play a musical instrument. Playing music helps with creativity, analytical skills, language, math, fine motor skills and more. An improved corpus callosum helps with executive skills, memory, problem solving and overall brain function, regardless of how old you are. 2. The benefits of reading are the same whether you are enjoying Game of Thrones, Harry Potter or the latest issue of the Wall Street Journal.
At work, this translates into better understanding how to make things happen and better managerial skills. 3. This Simple Survey Could Help Close The Achievement Gap. This Video Game Could Change Business School Forever. Re-imagining school. Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education. Socrates Takes a Back Seat to Business and Tech. Photo The students are pitching.
On a spring afternoon at Michigan State University, 15 law students are presenting start-up proposals to a panel of legal scholars and entrepreneurs and an audience of fellow students. The end-of-semester event is one part seminar and one part “Shark Tank” reality show. The companies the students are describing would be very different from the mega-firms that many law students have traditionally aspired to work for, and to grow wealthy from. Instead, these young people are proposing businesses more nimble and offbeat: small, quick mammals scrambling underfoot in the land of dinosaurs. A few of them talk of outsourced services for larger law firms.
The Entrepreneurial Lawyering Startup Competition, a showcase of the university’s Reinvent Law Laboratory, is not an activity many practicing lawyers would recognize. “Legal education has been stronger on tradition than innovation,” said Joan W. Catherine L. At Indiana University’s law school, Prof. Mr. Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship.