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“Logic will take you from A to B
Imagination will take you everywhere”
Albert Einstein
In this episode I talk to Diane Walters an educator and consultant with over 36 years experience in education. I ask Diane about the future of education, we talk about the power of story telling and the fascinating and relevant topic of interdisciplinary learning.
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For more information about Diane's offerings and resources here is a link to an article article and short video
http://teachingintothefuture.com
Story Telling
The human story is our birthright and the means by which cultures across the globe have taught upcoming generations with wisdom and guidance. They are the backbone of human imagination and collaboration; two significant traits we have developed since the Palaeolithic age.
Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation in part because they change our brains.
Some of us have always known this while it takes others scientific evidence: In 2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, the psychologist Uri Hasson and his Princeton University colleagues had a graduate student tell an unrehearsed story while her brain was veins being scanned in an fMRI machine. Then they scanned the brains of 11 volunteers listening to a recording of the story. As the researchers analysed the data, they found some striking similarities. Just when the speaker’s brain lit up in the area of the insula – a region that governs empathy and moral sensibilities – the listeners’ insulae lit up, too. Listeners and speakers also showed parallel activation of the temporoparietal junction, which helps us imagine other people’s thoughts and emotions. In certain essential ways, then, stories help our brains map that of the storyteller.
Link for free tips and more about the course here and how to tell a good story:
https://mailchi.mp/teachingintothefuture/how-to-tell-a-good-story
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