Background
5 Minds for the Future ...Howard Gardner
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The Creating Mind -- the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and phenomena |
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The Ethical Mind -- fulfillment of one's responsibilities as a worker and as a citizen. |
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The Synthesizing Mind -- the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others. |
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The Respectful Mind -- awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings and human groups |
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The Disciplinary Mind -- the mastery of major schools of thought (including science, mathematics, and history) and of at least one professional craft. |
Projects used as vehicles for
learning:
from WPI/nobel skills
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Soft-Skills Study skills fall into the category of “soft skills,” as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration. Soft skills are the problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills that a person employs. They are perhaps best defined as the opposite of “hard skills,” which are the technical skills required to complete a job.
| The Carnegie Mellon Foundation and Stanford Research Institute surveyed Fortune 500 CEOs, identifying the most critical skills. They concluded that 75% of long-term career success depends on soft skills, such as: the ability to process and organize new information, solve problems, think critically, manage time and deadlines, communicate effectively with others, etc. Only 25% of long-term success, however, depends on technical “content” knowledge. softskills.com |
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Howard Gardner:
Need to integrate additional skills to create a whole person:
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Approach to adding additional skills :
softskills.com/engineeringlens |
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Elevator Speech Create a for-profit company that provides after-school programs to high school, college and recent high school graduates using on-line and in-class methods. The classes will focus on three aspects of Skill development:
1-What are the students’ needs and what skills strength do they have, 2-Provide the skill training the students’ needs to be successful in school and work. 3- A follow up plan to continuously improve on those skills.
The classes are designed to engage the students in a fun and mindful manner covers topics such as character development, social skills, problem solving and entrepreneurship, thinking skills, project leadership, dealing with others and various life related skills.
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| Corporate overview plus report of needs by CEO's ... IBM |