The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

We notice more and more articles appearing that talk about education and social media, like this one last week in the Washington Post about twittering professors.  So, we continue this theme with a post by Ashley and Jim.  Take a look.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 
Engagement as an Invaluable Education Tool: A Lesson from Social Media
 
Ashley Stempel’10 and [...]

World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) conference.
 
-Jim Stellar
 
I just came from the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and as I post this brief note from the Vancouver airport, they are wrapping up the meeting.  Some 400+ people from dozens of countries all over the world attended to discuss this powerful form of education that, [...]

We had such a nice reaction to our last piece on leadership that we did it again below with Cynthia Bainton.  We think it is important to see the connections between “other lobe” thinking in various domains and hope you agree.
-Jim and Shwen
 
 

 
Relational Practice in Leadership – Lessons Learned from Gender Differences
 
By Cynthia Bainton and [...]

In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic intelligence.  But here we wonder if that concept of the “other lobe” should be broadened [...]

This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students.  We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs.  Not only do we feel it is necessary in a Web 2.0 world of social [...]

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