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Versatile Intelligence and Assessment (VIA) at Common Ground |
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Written by Robert A. Southworth Jr.
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
Versatile Intelligence and Assessment
A Sustainable Instability Workshop
Building Capacity to change with Mindful Innovations
Rob and Mike, Southworth and Halverson
Common Ground, Albany, 2008
Instability is the rule
Letting go opens up change
Complex situations require a brain-like response
Build networks
Information and technology drive the fragmentation
Response to Instability
Researcher Peter Kruse says:
Stagger on with our lives
React on a case by case pattern
Rationalize
Develop a collective network of intelligence
Cortex and Limbic Systems
Cortex is quick learning and most highly evolved
Limbic is emotional and rules our actions
Scripts and learnt frameworks rule unless contradicted
Networks Respond to Complexity
Complexity, fragmentation and the loss of cohesion
Creating and adopting strong AIE Partnerships is like building brain networks of intelligence
What does Marketing Know?
Peter Kruse’s
“Next Practice”
Brand = common limbic emotional assessments
Building Brand = provocation, involvement, and repetition
Intelligence
Intelligence is a function of cortical flexibility and limbic differentiation
Intuition is the sum of experience on the edge of excessive demand
VIA — The Power of Learning
All Children are Smart
All Children Learn
Teach assessment
Learning Well =
Observation
Assessment
Integration
VIA - A New Theory
Rejects IQ as narrow
Builds on Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner
Current Tests and Assessments capture less than 1% of student learning
Versatility
Observation — visual data collection
Assessment —
Driven by students
Not by adults
More accurate
Reveals importance to learner
Integration—
Works on instable versus stable
Develops intuitive and emotional
Promotes learning how to learn
Builds wisdom
AIE Partnerships
Use the Power of Learning
Story-telling is central
Help partners and students become comfortable with learning
Set up continuous self assessment so students can document what they know
Strategies
Don’t bore! Interrrrrrrrrrrrupt…
Have fun?
Mix it up, {surprise}
Provoke#, *involve and repeat|||\\\|||||\
Assess the ?&! assessments so the real progress is made
Sustain Instability
Instability is the rule
Celebrate mistakes
Learn new patterns
Allow participants to follow the impact of their own activity
Instability and Integration
Use network intelligence to steer instability and change
Think of students as versatile learners who observe, assess and integrate
Celebrate the learning for all of us, OK? Thanks….
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