Education: A new perspective

1) Look at these pictures showing different ways of learning. 

    Compare and contrast them saying which way you think is more effective.

a) Do you think there are subjects which should not be taught at school? 

    Which ones and why (not)?

b) what do you think of the last image?

c) Use these words to provide your explanations.

Thinking like a Genius

Warm-up
1) What does it mean for you " to be a genius"?

2) What are the most outstanding characteristics of them?(mention personality-character-behaviour,etc)

3) How do geniuses come up with ideas?

    Think about : PRODUCTIVE THINKING   VS.   REPRODUCTIVE THINKING


Strategies used by the supercreative

4) a) Do you have any special technique when you study?(highlighting, summarising,etc)

     b) Do you try to come up with new ideas? Or you just repeat what other people say?

      c) Have you heard about Multiple Intelligencies?

        

Multiple Intelligences is Howard Gardner's psychological theory about people and their different types of intelligences (logical, visual, musical, etc.). According to this theory, people can have one or more developed intelligences. 

http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm

d) Let's see which intelligences are the strongest for you!!!:D
Click on these links and find a survey :D

http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

Geniuses

        

*Great minds from Edingburgh

The Scottish are famous for their friendliness, inventive and hard work. They belong to a small nation but they have largely contributed to mankind with inventions, art, scientific discoveries, literature and art.

  

 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Scientist, inventor, engineer

A) Read the following text and decide if the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answers orally.

         ...........1)Alexander Bell was born in Scotland.
         ...........2) He have been working only as a scientist. 
         ...........3) The Bell Telephone Company was not profitable until 1877. 
         ...........4) Alexander particularly disliked his famous patented telephone.
         ...........5) Bell have lived in different continents.

   Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Short story writer, novelist, journalist and doctor 

B) Choose the right word in the following text.

1)   a)origins             b) immigrants             c) fathers                     d) religion

2)   a) doctor            b) medicine                c) specialist                 d) medication

3)   a) wrote             b) thought                  c) outline                     d) developed 

4)   a) typical            b) world-famous         c) world-unkown         d) accepted

5)   a) writing            b)written                    c) write                      d) wrote

6)   a) late                 b) as soon as              c) soon                       d) fast

7)   a) lonely             b) alone                      c) solitary                   d) sole

8)   a) life                  b) live                        c) alive                       d) lived

9)   a) him                 b) he                         c) himself                    d) his

10)  a) which             b) when                     c) that                        d) where

*Little Heads, Little Geniuses

1) Watch this trailer.

2) Do you know the movie?

3) What kind of talent does the boy have?

4) How would you explain the plot?

5) Have you seen any movie like this before?