Daniel Pink’s ‘A Whole New Mind’ is a must-read book for all of the future focused teachers out there. He delves into the science regarding how the left and right hemisphere’s of the brain work, and explains why a ‘whole new mind’ is going to be needed in the future.
To briefly summarise, Pink outlines how in the past (and especially since the Industrial Revolution), we have relied predominantly on the left hemisphere of the brain. This is the part of the brain responsible for logic, sequencing, reason, reading, writing, maths and so on. Most jobs during this time has heavily relied on these skills. Then, moving out of factory work into more of what he calls the ‘knowledge era’ - think lawyers, engineers, doctors, etc, we further relied on the left side of the brain.
However, the world - and the economy - is changing (or has already changed). Just as many people working in factories in the western world have...