Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Chapter 10 Adolescent Literacy
So just to any outside viewers I am reading this book for a class. In this chapter we read about how the world is becoming a smaller place and how it will take a certain mindset to adapt and grow in the future. It talks of the different mindsets and the people that emerge and the strengths that they have. The one type that is described as being the most capable of succeding are those of right brain oreintation. That is the imaginative and creative the people who think outside the box are going to be the ones who control and run things as they will be creating the new innovation as left brained people can be outsourced and replaced by automation. However I submit this question, if right brained people who enjoy expression and freedom are the ones in control where will the control be? Or how will these people who are normally not organized or interested in calculations be the ones who control the large corporations and buisinesses. While only a few are required that does not change the fact that children who grow up in such a way can simply change their style of thinking. Personally I have been described as center to left brained by a test measuring brain level. Meaning I am capable of thinking different ways while being capable of strategical and creative thaught. But that is me. Most people are not associated one way or the other. Im not sure where im trying to go with this now, but these different mindsets are good but what are we supposed to do with this information. I mean we can't change the way people process information so I guess its a more power to you type of thing, on whether you like to create or to process things.
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You post an interesting question, Adam, about how one's cognition will affect these various "21st century" characteristics the text mentions. I'm wondering, though, too how generational these qualities are and how they might transcend a certain type of processing?? I also agree though that we will always need people to think and contribute in a variety of ways in order to make progress.
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