Tero Toivanen's List: SmartBoard

• Obe Hostetter has developed one-stop shop for finding all sorts of resources including Smart Notebook files. To use this customized search, just type in your keywords in custom Google Search bar and it will return results specific to SMART Boards. How cool is that!

• I am looking forward to exploring the types of software that can be written that takes full advantage of multiple users.
• I hope our work with the SMART Table will help define software and applications of greater learning depth then what I have seen in the past.
• Who contributes most when working in a group? Who sits back?
• What key issues do you think need to be addressed in regard to a multi-touch device? Does the SMART Table really have the potential to further enhance what we do in the primary classroom?

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• So instead of promoting retirement at age 65, perhaps we as a society should be promoting transition at age 65: transition into a creative field where our growing resource of individuals with aging brains can preserve their wisdom in culturally-valued works of art, music, or writing.
• Numerous studies suggest that highly creative individuals also employ a broadened rather than focused state of attention. This state of widened attention allows the individual to have disparate bits of information in mind at the same time. Combining remote bits of information is the hallmark of the creative idea.
• Other studies show that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in self-conscious awareness and emotions are thinner in the aging brain. This may correlate with the diminished need to please and impress others, which is a notable characteristic of both aging individuals and creative luminaries.
• Finally, intelligence studies indicate that older individuals have access to an increasing store of knowledge gained over a lifetime of learning and experience. Combining bits of knowledge into novel and original ideas is what the creative brain is all about.

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