I came across this photo when I was moving from the office I occupied for the past five years into a new one in an adjacent building. It’s a keeper!
As I recall, I caught this shot of Bonnie Grossen and Joanna Williams, two people who know more than I could ever hope to learn about teaching students both fundamental and sophisticated literacy skills, when they were chatting between sessions at a meeting of researchers in Washington (DC, US). I think the event was an annual gathering of people who had federally funded research projects, and Professors Williams and Grossen just happened to slip aside to catch up on some matters.
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Left AND right brain
Teach Effectively pal Dan Willingham’s entry for this week at the Washington Post is about the myth of the left-brain-vs-right-brain dichotomy. He drives a very large convoy of vehicles through the gaping hole in the putative theory, a hole that was reopened by a report published by Arne Dietrich and Riam Kanso in a prestigious Psychological Bulletin article entitled “A Review of EEG, ERP, and Neuroimaging Studies of Creativity and Insight.”
Professors Dietrich and Kanso examined a shipload of studies that used multiple methods to examine the relationships between neurological functions and structures and creative thinking. What they found does not accord with the Pop-Ed views one is likely to hear in what passes as professional development sessions provided by at least some—if not many—schools and teacher education programs.
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