Movement Research: 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Creativity

The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been considered to account for some aspects of individual creativity. The left half of the brain is certainly dominantly responsible for language and calculation, the right for visuo-spatial and musical functions, but to ascribe variously Yang and Yin, left/right, emotion/reason, intellect/intuition, analytic/relational is no more than the simplistic and unverifiable product of fertile imaginations. The conceptions of relativity and of the double helix must each have involved both logical mathematical and spatial intelligences; while Henry Moore's right hemispheric spatial gifts must have been complemented by left-sided praxis. Schnabel's pianistic brilliance required not only a remarkably developed sense of rhythm — he himself regarded his skills not in playing the notes, but in designing the pauses that he inserted between them — but also body-kinesthetic intelligence, which depends on bilateral motor skills. Yet the body's motor systems are but the messenger between the mind creating and the environment receiving.

http://www.jrank.org/health/pages/32988/creativity.html#ixzz0WduI7PUc

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

BK info

www.ivyacademy.cn/MI/Bodily-Kinesthetic%20Intelligence.pdf

more...info

Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners:

learn through , moving, doing and touching...

Tactile/Kinesthetic persons learn best through a hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world around them. They may find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become distracted by their need for activity and exploration.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Research Links

Tips for A Kinesthetic Learner

http://www.dirjournal.com/guides/study-tips-for-kinesthetic-learners/

Empowering Creativity Through Movement, Metaphor and Dance (Facebook group)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=95909158845&index=1

Enhancing Creativity with Running

http://walking-running-training.suite101.com/article.cfm/enhancing_creativity_with_running

Unlocking Children's Creativity through Movement and Music

http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=261

Kinesthetic

http://surfaquarium.com/mi/profiles/kinesthetic.htm

Core Characteristics:

Sensory – internalizes information through bodily sensation
Reflexive – responds quickly and intuitively to physical stimulus
Tactile – demonstrates well-developed gross and/or fine motor skills
Concrete – expresses feelings and ideas through body movement
Coordinated – shows dexterity, agility, flexibility, balance and poise
Task Orientated – strive to learn by doing
Students with a strong kinesthetic intelligence:

Seek to interact with their environment
Enjoy hands-on activities
Can remain focused on a hands-on task for an extended period of time
May demonstrate strong fine and/or gross motor ability
Prefer learning centers to seat work
Seek out other students who are physically gregarious
Master a principle once they can manipulate materials that demonstrate the concept
Enjoy group games and active learning tasks
Are different from children who are hyperactive
Support this intelligence in the classroom by:

Providing hands-on learning centers
Incorporating creative drama into your instruction
Including interactive games in reviewing and remediating content
Offering experiences in movement to rhythm and music
Engaging students in hands-on science experiments
Utilizing manipulatives in math instruction
Allowing opportunities for building and taking apart
Encouraging students to construct physical representations of concepts
Keeping students physically moving throughout the school day
Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:

Construction tools
Kitchen utensils
Screw
Lever
Wheel and axle
Inclined plane
Pulley
Wedge
Physical education equipment
Manipulative materials
Mouse
Joystick
Simulations that require eye-hand coordination
Assistive technologies
Digital probes

Sony ExploraScience

Aha Experience

http://www.sonyexplorascience.jp/english/contents/light.html

Kinesthetic Intelligence

Identifying Kinesthetic Intelligence

It is very easy to identify people with kinesthetic intelligence. They enjoy and usually are seen to be successful in active sports, constructing, dancing, hands-on tasks, working with scientific probes and microscopes, robotics, digital still and video cameras etc. These activities involve deftness and physical coordination and using their fine and gross motor skills, people with kinesthetic intelligence involve in learning and expressing themselves through various physical activities.

Kinesthetic Behavior

These people love figuring out how things work and do not need others to tell them. They do things going by their instincts and get “gut feelings” for things around them. They have plenty of physical energy and love physical movement. They cannot stay still for long and are often described as being “on the go.” Children squirm at the breakfast table or even at their desk at school. They enjoy dance, sports and any exhilarating experience. They are very good at creating things and they are always active and love outdoors. Their motor skills are excellent and they are very aware of their bodies. They learn well through movement and “doing” and prefer touching than looking.

Creativity

This sort of high kinesthetic intelligence is what creates scientists, writers, artists, musicians, dancers, performers and other creative people that allow their minds and hands to move without any pre-planned format. While some are blessed with athletic abilities, others are gifted in fine-motor skills, such as drawing and crafts.

Many creative writers use free writing style to get ideas and musical composers end up playing impromptu pieces. These are examples of allowing the body to take over and play a leading role in coming up with new ideas. These actions are not pre-planned and it is just the body movement preceding the thought processes.

A person with kinesthetic intelligence is said to write beautifully and can make writing feel real, funny, down to earth and physical. If this intelligence is strong in a piece of writing, then it is likely to affect the reader at the gut level. This writing may also have a natural sense of movement, the kind of writing that people may say, “breathes.”

How To Encourage Kinesthetic Intelligence?

Rather than ridicule children with kinesthetic intelligence and who are very fidgety, it is better to give them tools and equipment to manipulate in class. Rather than stopping them from moving, it is better to let their bodies develop through expression, enabling them to grow up into creative individuals. Kinesthetic intelligence needs to be understood better to be able to provide better opportunities to such people, in order to bring out their hidden talents.

Kinesthetic intelligence needs to be understood better to be able to provide better opportunities to such people, in order to bring out their hidden talents.

http://www.dirjournal.com/guides/understanding-kinesthetic-intelligence/