TED India 2009

Reunião Geral de Professores

No Agrupamento de Escolas de Campelos, a Reunião Geral de Professores teve uma apresentação da técnica dos Six Thinking Hats®

HOME - o Filme

Já está online!!!

HOME

Já está online!!!

A Terra vista do Céu em Filme

HOME - Conferência de Imprensa 5 de Maio 2009

Está a chegar.

Dia 5 de Junho temos encontro marcado com o Planeta

Em poucas décadas, a humanidade abalou o equilíbrio do Planeta, estabelecido ao longo de quatro biliões de anos de evolução. O preço a pagar é alto, mas é tarde demais para ser pessimista: a humanidade tem apenas 10 anos para inverter a tendência, tornar-se consciente da extensão das riquezas da terra e mudar os seus padrões de consumo.

Ao trazer-nos um filme único de mais de cinquenta países, todos vistos do ar, ao partilhar connosco a sua beleza e preocupação, Yann Arthus-Bertrand (autor do livro "A Terra vista do Céu") lança os alicerces do edifício que, juntos, temos de reconstruir.

UM EVENTO EXCEPCIONAL PARA TEMPOS EXCEPCIONAIS

Mais do que um filme, Home vai ser um evento maior em todo o globo: pela primeira vez, um filme vai ser estreado no mesmo dia em mais de 50 países sem direitos de autor.

5 de Junho de 2009, Dia Mundial do Ambiente foi a data escolhida simbolicamente para esta estreia simultânea e na maioria gratuita,em todos os formatos: cinemas, televisão, DVD e internet (www.youtube.com/homeproject ).

O objectivo do director Yann Arthus-Bertand, do distribuidor Luc Besson e François-Henri Pinault, Presidente e CEO da PPR, o patrocinador oficial do filme, é chegar à mais vasta audiência possível, e convencer-nos a todos da nossa responsabilidade individual e colectiva para com o Planeta.

Website: http://www.home-2009.com

A MUDANÇA ACONTECE (Shift Happens)

Estamos à espera de quê?



Este vídeo já tem um site próprio e várias versões. Teve o seu início com a reforma do sistema de ensino americano e foi evoluindo.

Um Momento com Valor!

Watch Eye of the Tiger Kids on CollegeHumor

Dan Ariely: Porque pensamos que é OK enganar e roubar(por vezes)

Gustavo Dudamel e a Orquestra da Juventude Teresa Carreño: Uma Sensação musical da Venezuela

A Orquestra da Juventude Teresa Carreño contém os melhores músicos estudantes do programa de música da Venezuela, El Sistema, que mudou a vida a milhares de jovens carenciados. El Sistema foi fundado por José António Abreu em 1975.

Gustavo Dudamel que conduz esta performance é, ele próprio um resultado deste método, sendo hoje o mais novo director musical da Orquestra Filarmónia de Los Angeles.

Um conselho: disponha de17 minutos da sua vida para saborear esta demonstração da alegria de viver através da música, ponha o som alto, recoste-se.

Tocam Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez' Danzón No. 2 (esta é fenomenal)

Diga-nos, depois, qual o sentimento com que chegou ao fim.

TEDPrize 2009 -José António Abreu

Todos os anos, a conferência do TED confere um prémio a 3 pessoas que se tenham distinguido na sua área, no sentido de melhorar o mundo.

Um dos vencedores deste ano foi José António Abreu, o carismático fundador de um sistema de orquestras de juventude que transformou milhares de vidas de jovens na Venezuela.

Aqui, ele partilha a sua extraoridinária história e desvenda o seu desejo do TED Prize: "Ajudem-me a trazer música às crianças a nível mundial"

No próximo dia 19 de Março de 2009, das 18:30 às 20:00, terá lugar o terceiro “Fim de Tarde na EEC”, sob o tema “Six Thinking Hats®”.

A introdução deste tema ficará a cargo de Cristina Marques da Silva, psicóloga, Executive Coach e fundadora da Eureekka, sendo sub-distribuidora da dBTS (de Bono Thinking Systems) para Portugal. É formadora certificada nas seguintes técnicas de pensamento de Edward de Bono: Pensamento Lateral™, DATT™ (Direct Attention Thinking Tools), Foco na Facilitação e Seis Medalhas dos Valores (Six Value Medals®). É a única Master Trainer dos “Six Thinking Hats®” em Portugal. Tem, neste momento, um conjunto de workshops focados nos métodos de pensamento de Edward de Bono orientados para as empresas e está a introduzir as competências de pensamento na educação, uma área a que está ligada desde há muito.



Cristina Marques da Silva Partilha a seguinte reflexão que servirá de base ao debate:

“Será que nos respeitamos a nós próprios bem como os outros e o seu pensamento? O que faz quando alguém discorda de si? Defende a sua posição? Aquela que acha certa? E o que o faz achar que a sua posição é a correcta?

E se, em vez de “Eu estou certo, Tu estás errado”, adoptássemos um pensamento em que, acima de tudo, prevalece o respeito? Em que respeitamos o pensamento do Outro e sabemos que o nosso pensamento é igualmente respeitado?

O Pensamento é o maior recurso humano, dele vai depender a qualidade do nosso futuro. A técnica dos “Six Thinking Hats®” ajuda-nos a melhorar a competência do pensamento. Permite concentrarmo-nos naquilo que é importante – o desempenho do pensamento – e não em nós. A oportunidade que se nos depara é enorme, no sentido da co-operação, co-ordenação, relacionamento positivo e das ideias! O que pode vir a seguir? Deixamos à consideração do seu pensamento.”



Para mais informações contactar: Tel: (+351) 21 358 00 51; e-mail.

A Verdadeira Crise? Deixámos de ser Sábios.

Como faz sentido falar em virtude, carácter, competência moral, vontade moral...

A apresentação de Barry Schwartz foi considerada uma das melhores do TED2009.

Como as ideias de Edward de Bono estão a transformar as escolas

Por Rachel Pugh
29 Janeiro 2009


Put your thinking hat on: How Edward de Bono's ideas are transforming schools

Teaching children how to think has brought academic success to schools in Manchester. But will techniques pioneered by the guru Edward de Bono catch on?

Rapt in thought, the four-year-old is taking part in a discussion about improving playtime. With a scowl of concentration, he clutches on to Patsy, the black-hatted teddy, and says: "A football hit me in the face once."

This is the reception class at Ditton Primary School, near Widnes, and the teacher, Jackie Timmis, has asked him about the negative aspects of football.

His classmates have already made it clear they recognise what facts are – it is what Fred, the white-hatted teddy, encourages. Red-capped Fifi puts them in touch with what they feel about an idea. Patsy is fixed on the negatives, yellow-clad Hal on the positives, while cuddly Ivor is as fertile with creative ideas as his green hat. Blue-hatted Bella is "the boss" organising their thinking.

They don't know it, but they are using Edward De Bono's structured thinking technique, the Six Thinking Hats, that colour codes different ways of tackling a question, to give them a framework for problem-solving and exploring ideas. The hats have been turned into teddies, given the pupils' age.

These are advanced concepts for such young children but Ditton Primary is an accredited Thinking School, committed according to the head teacher, Carol Lawrenson, to creating "little thinking creatures".

This scene at Ditton may be played out in classrooms across the UK in the next few years, if thinking guru Edward de Bono succeeds in introducing the key concepts of his thinking framework, the Six Thinking Hats and lateral thinking, into the national curriculum.

The Edward De Bono Foundation has just set up the world's first university-based Centre of Serious Creativity and Constructive Thinking at Manchester Metropolitan University's Crewe campus. And Ditton is an exemplar school. Manchester Met is the largest university for the teaching of education in Europe, so work has already begun to teach academics De Bono's concepts via four-day courses in order to disseminate this to teachers. Manchester's academies are already showing significant interest in taking on the concepts.

Chief executive of the De Bono Foundation UK, Bob Rawlinson, is passionate about the need for a change from what he considers an overly Socratic to a more creative approach to thinking and learning in schools. "All my life I've believed in the development of people to get the best out of them," he says. "I believe passionately that this should be done at the earliest possible age to inspire children to achieve."

Research evidence obtained by the De Bono Foundation suggests his tools can have a positive impact on academic achievement and behaviour. As part of the Government's New Deal job-finding programme, teaching youngsters the De Bono thinking systems for only six hours improved their employment rate by 500 per cent.

Ditton Primary has been using the De Bono methods for the past six years alongside several other thinking methods – Hyerle's Thinking Maps, Art Costa's Habits of Mind and Spencer Kagan's Co-operative Learning – powered by Carol Lawrenson's vision to turn out children equipped to think for the 21st century: "We want our children to be respectful, responsible, resourceful, good creators and successful in whatever intelligences they show," she says. "That is more important than success in Key Stage 3."

Her school in one of the most deprived boroughs in the country, is also always in the top 15 per cent of primaries in the country for academic results. Bullying is rare and there have been only 11 disciplinary incidents since February 2008. Before the introduction of the thinking tools that figure would have represented a half term.

Traditional subject areas have been thrown out. Thinking books replace exercise books. The curriculum is taught entirely in seven themes such as problem solving and reasoning, creative development or knowledge and understanding of the world. But all subjects are taught with creative thinking tools at the fore. Images of the coloured hats crop up all over the school and lessons are peppered with references like "let's apply some green hat (creative) thinking" or "White hats on – what are the facts?" At the end of 2008, Ditton and two other nearby nationally-accredited thinking schools formed a consultancy – Halton Thinking Schools (HATS) – to train other schools.

According to Professor Chris Husbands, of London's Institute of Education, research evidence confirms the importance of teaching thinking. Ten years ago, the national curriculum gave few opportunities to teach it, not so now. He cautions, however: "The most important thing in determining the quality of education is the quality of teaching."

Thinking tools may be a way to improve teaching, but they are very time-consuming in the classroom. Their use is easier in primary schools, but in high schools they only work when incorporated into subjects by committed teachers, says Husbands.

This is what has happened at St Ambrose Barlow Roman Catholic High School in Swinton, Salford, which achieved 88 per cent A*-C passes at GCSE despite having many pupils from deprived homes. It has been designated a National School of Creativity – only the second in the North West.

The head teacher, Marie Garside, has overseen the introduction of a number of thinking tools including De Bono's across all year groups, for several years. The Thinking Hats add power to thinking across the curriculum on issues such as the destruction of the rain forest but the school also used it to work with Salford Council on plans for the regeneration of the deprived area of Langworthy. Eighty six per cent of pupils go on to post-16 education.

"The impact on the school of using these tools is that we now have more confident learners," she says. "Children need a completely new set of skills to deal with data than they did when I started teaching 33 years ago. I want to produce thinkers, not exam fodder."

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Edward de Bono sobre pensamento criativo

Edward De Bono : Autoridade do pensamento criativo, partilha algumas reflexões sobre criatividade...

O que é ser criativo. De Bono responde sem equívoco a esta questão. Ser criativo é trazer ideias que têm valor. Contrariamente ao ue a maioria pensa, o facto de ser criativo não tem nada a ver com o facto de fazer diferente dos outros. A menos que possamos demonstra o valor da diferença, fazer diferente nao é ser criativo.

Edward de Bono explica que a provocação é um dois princípios fundamentais do pensamento lateral, pois é a ferramenta através da qual o pensador lateral vai obter novas ideias.

Edward de Bono - entrevista EITB 2007

Embaixador da Criatividade - Entrevista a Edward de Bono no âmbito

Fonte: Eureactiv

Creativity means much more than just arts, dance and painting, and thus Europe urgently needs a figure to take the issue seriously if it is not to fall behind its global competitors, Edward de Bono, who has been appointed ambassador of the upcoming European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009, told in an interview.

Professor Edward de Bono is a leading authority on creative thinking, innovation and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. Education Commissioner Jan Figeľ' recently appointed him as ambassador for the upcoming European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009.

You have established a World Centre for New Thinking in Malta. What sort of new creative thinking does Europe need to tackle the current economic and financial crisis?
With regard to the economic crises, there are some very strong ideas, which we need to develop. I suggest a spending currency, which has an exchange rate against an existing currency, which we can change and we can get more spending money that stimulates the economy. And then retailers can change it back into ordinary currency. We might need a savings currency, while we need a property currency. These are big ideas which could make a huge difference to the existing economic crunch.

How satisfied are you with the recent EU actions?
I haven't followed it in detail. Generally, people talk about the stimulus to the economy but are not really clear what that is – just public words and bailing out the banks, etc.

How does the creative industry have to be set up if it is to help Europe to remain competitive?
In terms of price and competence, we are not going to be much better than the Chinese or the Indians. It is a matter of continuously creating new values. And that needs creativity.

What are the main hurdles to unlocking creativity and innovation in Europe?
There needs to be someone who takes it seriously. I think businesses ought to take creativity as seriously as they take finance and legal affairs. We need someone in every organisation who is directly responsible for creativity and new ideas, who organises training and puts together lists of new thinking, who listens to new ideas, who transmits them and stands behind them. Otherwise you risk having an individual innovator who doesn't have the political muscle to make things happen and nothing happens.

How confident are you that the European Year of Creativity and Innovation could actually achieve something?
It could maybe trigger a start. But the whole point is that we need to take creativity seriously and there is always the danger that when people are talking about creativity they are talking about arts, dance, painting, etc. Yes, this is important but the creativity of ideas and change makes the process happen. Every bit is important. But in most languages, certainly in English, there is no separation between an idea and creativity and artistry. And this is a big difference. The schools say they teach you creativity and they teach a bit of finger-printing and dancing. That's good. But it is not the same as ideas and creativity.

Do you think there is also a different mentality in Europe compared to the US or Japan when it comes to creativity?
Let me give you an example. My first book in Japan sold more copies per head than love stories in America. There is huge interest. In America, they have quite old-fashioned ideas about creativity. They think it is just about feeling good and sitting around and brainstorming some answers. And it is not.

Can the mentality also be changed in Europe?
With the right leadership, it could. As an ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, you have quite an exponential role. What does this role mean for you and how confident are you that you can actually achieve something? It gives me a certain platform to say these sorts of things, whereas if I said the same things as an individual it would not have the same effect. I think it is a good and useful thing and I intend to make full use of it.

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