SXSWedu Conference & Festival 2016 opening keynote speaker Temple Grandin talks about different ways people think.[/caption]
For the opening keynote of the 2016 SXSWedu Conference & Festival, Temple Grandin, a professor of livestock behavior and welfare at Colorado State University, spoke about different ways of thinking and how she believes children are currently learning.
Grandin’s keynote, “Helping Different Kinds of Minds Solve Problems," focused on three types of thinking: photo realistic visual thinking, mathematical pattern thinking, and verbal thinking. Visual thinkers have trouble with math, pattern thinkers have trouble with reading, and verbal thinkers have trouble with drawing, Grandin said.
“When I learned visual thinking was different from verbal thinking, it gave me insight into how different people’s brains approach problem solving,” Grandin said.
As an example of two paths to solve a problem, Grandin said Steve Jobs was an artist who designed the Apple iPhone, but it required engineers to make the device function.
Labeling herself as a visual thinker, Grandin said this form of thinking has helped her design livestock facilities for large meat plants.
Grandin also talked about her observations of children and young adults from her perspective as a livestock professor. She said too many children are removed from the world of practical things, as there is a shortage of people in skilled trades including farming and ranching, adding that the average age of farmers and ranchers is 50, and a number of young adults fail to connect pigs as the source of bacon.
Grandin expressed concern about people not reading newspapers for general news and cited a statistic that 25 percent of teenagers get their news from social media.
“I’m worried about the lack of reading,” Grandin said.
SXSWedu Conference & Festival 2016 opening keynote speaker Temple Grandin talks about different ways people think.[/caption]
For the opening keynote of the 2016 SXSWedu Conference & Festival, Temple Grandin, a professor of livestock behavior and welfare at Colorado State University, spoke about different ways of thinking and how she believes children are currently learning.
Grandin’s keynote, “Helping Different Kinds of Minds Solve Problems," focused on three types of thinking: photo realistic visual thinking, mathematical pattern thinking, and verbal thinking. Visual thinkers have trouble with math, pattern thinkers have trouble with reading, and verbal thinkers have trouble with drawing, Grandin said.
“When I learned visual thinking was different from verbal thinking, it gave me insight into how different people’s brains approach problem solving,” Grandin said.
As an example of two paths to solve a problem, Grandin said Steve Jobs was an artist who designed the Apple iPhone, but it required engineers to make the device function.
Labeling herself as a visual thinker, Grandin said this form of thinking has helped her design livestock facilities for large meat plants.
Grandin also talked about her observations of children and young adults from her perspective as a livestock professor. She said too many children are removed from the world of practical things, as there is a shortage of people in skilled trades including farming and ranching, adding that the average age of farmers and ranchers is 50, and a number of young adults fail to connect pigs as the source of bacon.
Grandin expressed concern about people not reading newspapers for general news and cited a statistic that 25 percent of teenagers get their news from social media.
“I’m worried about the lack of reading,” Grandin said.
