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In my mind map, I wrote about how Mike Rose, Diane Laufenburg, and Howard all had their own ideas in education. When writing the information out in a diagram form like this, I came to a realization that these authors had overlapping viewpoints on the point of education. All of these authors correlate in their way of education, Mike Rose thinks about how failing students shouldn't be labeled, Diane Laufenburg thinks failure is a way for students to learn and embraces creativity, and Howard thinks the minds of new students should be creative, understand, and respectful.

Mike Rose thought of education as more than just objective tests and failing grades, he focuses more on the idea of labels and that you can't label a person just by seeing something. He mentions this in both YouTube videos, first talking about vocational work and second talking about student's with failing grades. Diane Laufenburg talks about the learning process for students and how important learning from mistakes is. She mentions that embracing a student's creativity gives them the chance to learn from the mistakes they make. Howard talks about the five minds needed for students which are discipline, creative, synthesizing, respectful, and ethics. These five minds give the future of students new ways to understand, create, and think about new information.

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My main section for my mind map was education. I then created three subsections which were Mike Rose, Diane Laufenberg, and 5 Minds for the Future.

For the Mike Rose section, I wrote about his beliefs. Standardized testing does not define a student’s intelligence. A student’s potential grows from failure. His ideas show that it is okay to fail. Several students fail from standardized tests, and that is okay, learning from your failures and mistakes will make you a better person. It also important to not let standardized testing define you. Students can know the information from hands experience, but a standardized test doesn’t prove that.

My second section was about Diane Laufenberg’s ideas. Laufenberg believed in experiential learning. Experiential learning is important for students to learn by actual doing hands on experiences. Under this section, I put that it is important to learn from mistakes which does tie into Mike Rose’s idea as well.

My last section is the 5 Minds for the Future. The 5 Minds for the Future are creating, respectful, ethical, disciplined and synthesizing. The 5 Minds for the Future do not only make you a better person but a better student. In this section, I put that students are problem solvers and create and figure out solutions to problems which relate to the 5 Minds.

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I have decided to make two mindmaps which I felt incorporated the ideas by Mike Rose, Five Minds For the Future, and Diane Laufenberg. On the top I first discussed their thoughts on the old/current school system. The “flow” of the mindmap is students go to school then they “learn” the information. After learning the students gain knowledge but the knowledge they gain is one way thinking and right or wrong answers. Diane Laufenberg in her TedTalk talked about how using tests like multiple choice, we are only teaching kids right and wrong answers. I feel as if Mike Rose would agree with that as he mentioned how schools teach one way and don’t take into account that people have multiple intelligences/personalities. They both feel as if the school system needs to make changes and incorporate new ways of learning and teaching. For this top mindmap I chose the colors black and white to depict how bland it is and not very successful.

The bottom mindmap is of the new and future school system that both Diane Laufenberg and Mike Rose dream of. The “flow” of this mindmap is students (who have different brains and personalities) go to school. The schools recognize that students have different personalities and ways of thinking so they come up with new and effective ways of teaching/learning to accommodate that. Due to this change, students actually understand the information they are being taught, which leads them to being eager to learn more. Lastly, since they are eager to learn, they gain knowledge of the information. Laufenberg in her TedTalk mentioned how if schools taught in a way that made the students think outside of the box and made the experience more fun/meaningful, students would learn better. Ways they could do that is by incorporating different approaches of learning that tap into people’s different intelligences. Some people work/learn better visually (carpenter that Mike Rose worked with), while others might work/learn better tactically. If schools realized this, they would be much more effective and students would actually gain the proper knowledge.

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I approached my mindmap by beginning with the central point of Education and subdividing based on the individuals whose views we have been studying (Gardner (labeled via his staple Five Minds system), Mike Rose, and Diane Laufenburg). In studying each individual, I found that they all hold fairly similar views on the current state of the education system, as well as its history. Therefore, it is only natural that they have beliefs that overlap. My second step was to find their most similar views and consolidate them into shorter points which would connect them on the map. Rose, Gardner, and Laufenburg all show distaste for the attempts of the American education system to quantify education. Rose and Laufenburg specifically cite contempt for standardized tests, while Gardner's opinions center more on IQ. Given Rose's experiences in the school system detailed in his book, it is safe to connect his beliefs about testing to IQ. Rose also is also connected to Laufenburg by the belief that failure is necessary to success. The latter is in agreement with Gardner that solving problems stimulates the mind— problem solving comes with failure, and thus the three connect once more. Through this mind map, it is clear that these three are incredible advocates for a type of education that stimulates students, shows them how to confront problems in life, and leaves behind quantitative assessments of intelligence.

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I decided to split my Mindmap into the three people we have read and watched videos about. Near each name I put the key points of their work and thoughts that were the most important. I then went deeper into some of their key points with things they believed in. I then noticed a connection between the three of them and connected them with a green arrow. The connection is about how they all think that tests shouldn’t determine someone’s intelligence and learning.

Howard didn’t believe in IQ tests and instead thought of education in a broader way. Diane thought kids needed to fail sometimes in order to learn. She said teachers have an infatuation with having one right answer such as multiple choice tests. Mike Rose also didn’t agree with teachers/people that believed that a bad test scores or poor performance meant intellectual failure. These three people all agree that education shouldn’t be measured through tests but rather experiential learning.

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When creating my map, I chose three details that the authors would agree with and how it all relates to the educational field. When looking into the field of education, there are three sections that I have broken it up into. The first one is ability; this is important because we need to understand that each student learns differently and has different grades within the system. When students are learning, some are visual, and some are hands-on. This is important when accessing someone's education because it is essential to help the student as much as possible. Learning what works best for the student will help them have a more successful educational process. Tests are another category that falls under ability because each student test differently, and standardized testing is not fair and inclusive to all students within the educational field. Finally, both authors agree about power because they talk about how each student learns differently and how it is essential to recognize each student.

The next is a failure. Although failure is seen as a negative thing, it is essential to note that it is not always negative. This can be something that both authors say is important to learn from. They record, and it is essential to learn from the past and the failure you encounter. I see this within testing, we see a bad grade as a negative thing, but most teachers do not allow students to do test corrections from their mistakes. So, society is questioning how we learn from our failures if we are not allowed to correct this failure for a better grade? I feel this is important with the road to success to learn from our failures; we need to have the ability to work towards that future because we would not know if we were doing something wrong if it was not for failure. Both authors state this is important to education, and there needs to be a failure to succeed.

The next one comes from Gardner's five minds. Discipline is essential within the educational field because there needs to be a fine line of specialization to keep students in check to become successful. There needs to be discipline within the classroom and home life from the parents. You learn from having your classroom rules and the standards your parents will hold you to considering grades wise.

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I decided to do a mind map and for my map the center focus was about education. From there I had what I thought are the 3 main focuses we have learned about so far and that is the 5 minds for the future, Mike Rose and Diane Laufenberg.

The 5 minds of the future I Believe are super important to the development and growth of our children and people. They are creating, respectful, ethical, disciplined and synthesizing. All of these put together are put in place to help People become the best person they can become and also the best students. It also is for people to learn how to solve problems on their own. Next is Mike Rose. Mike believed that you must fail in order to achieve being successful. He also believed that tests in general is not a good way to determine whether a student is smart or not. Finally is Diane Laufenberg. She was big into learning and developing through hands on work. She also is big into being able to embrace failing.

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Doing this assignment really helped me see the overall similarities between 5 Minds for the Future, Mike Rose, and Diane Laufenberg. Initially, I didn’t feel they shared similar thoughts or qualities, but as I re-read through my notes, I noticed shared thought processes between each individual. Overall, each agreed on the fact that we have the tools we need to adapt to the changing scape of education. Additionally, they each agreed that students best learn from experience, and that looks different for everyone. In terms of my organization in my Venn Diagram, I expressed differences in thoughts in more detail under each section for the individual person. In the shared categories I discussed what each individual shared thought processes on. For example, 5 Minds for the Future and Diana Laufenberg share similarities in the idea of evolving technology within the classroom, and the idea of human intelligence and learning from experience. In the shared category between Laufenberg and Rose, I described that the creative process helps individuals learn and is subjective to each individual.

Through this assignment I learned a lot more about each individual, actually going through their work and understanding it at more of a connective and deeper level.

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I approached my mind map by dividing it into three subtopics gathered from Gardiner, Rose and Laufenburg; creativity, failure and experiential learning. Then, within each subtopic, I broke it down a little bit further. I broke creativity down into discovering / solving problems, developing new ways of thinking and the idea that students can open their eyes to their own capacity. By applying creativity in learning, students are able to explore what's around them and figure out the best way to learn. Laufenburg discussed that failure is essential to learning. Rose mentioned that failure is simply potential that we just don't see. I saw this as skills and abilities improving as failure occurs which is also essential in experiential learning. Which brought me to experiential learning. This subtopic involves skills/abilities, learning from failure, application to everyday life (synthesizing mind) and curiosity/creativity. The experiential learning ultimately ties together all ideas presented by Gardiner, Rose and Laufenburg

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In my mind map I showed how Five Minds for the Future, Diane Laufenberg, and Mike Rose all shared similar ideas about education. After watching videos and completing the readings, I found that all of them have a unique way of explaining their views of education, but they are all somehow connected. This mind map helped me think deeper into education system and how there is more to it than just teachers and homework.

The first thing I did was summarize the message each person was trying to get through in either the book or video. I started by connecting the ideas of Diane Laufenberg to Mike Rose. They both agree that failure is not a bad thing. Mike Rose finds potential in students who fail because they think outside of the box. Laufenberg shares that learning comes with failure and that is instructional. Next, I compared Mike Rose to Five Minds for the Future and found a common theme of creativity. The five minds that are talked about all come together to make an overall better student. I connected this with Rose talking about how students have more depth to their thinking than just standardized tests. Lastly, I talked about the similarities between Five Minds for the Future and Laufenberg, and you need to develop your minds with experience. Laufenberg says you need to inquire and experience which made me think about how three of the minds are cognitive and two deal with human relations. You can’t just rely on one answer or one mind to find success in education.

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Stefanie Szawerda - Mind Map (Ideas of Education)

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Stefanie Szawerda - Mind Map (Ideas of Education)

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The first part of my mind map are the blue ovals. The central blue oval represents education and ideas regarding education as a whole. This central oval is connected to three ovals, one for each of the different people/ideas highlighted so far in this course. This includes Gardner's Five Minds, Mike Rose, and Diane Laufenburg. Secondly, my mind map includes three square boxes highlighted the main ideas/biggest points of the three main people. Gardner's big idea includes the five minds of synthesizing, creating, discipline, ethical, and respectful. Rose's big idea includes the concept that tests, such as IQ and standardized tests, cannot be used to accurately describe a person and their intelligence. Finally, Laufenberg's big idea revolves around the importance of experiential learning and the benefits of failure.

The third and final part of my mind map are the green ovals. These green ovals highlight the similarities between the ideals of two of the main people. Gardner's Five Minds and Rose's ideologies about knowledge and general intelligence share many common concepts. Rose and Laufenberg share the ideal that a creative thought process helps individuals to learn and be more subjective. Finally, Laufenburg and Gardner both agree that the globalization of education is helping classrooms across the world be more connected.

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For the structure of my Mind-map I divided my topic of Student Success into three categories based on each reading and viewing, these categories are Diane Laufenberg, Mike  Rose, and 5 Minds for the Future. Then for each category I listed 3-4 of the key points that I understood and took away as important. These key points that I listed were all connected to what each important person stated were vital to the success of a student both in the classroom and in society.

Throughout this assignment I learned that each significant person has the belief that failure plays a big role in whether or not a person is truly prepared for a successful life. As I read and viewed the videos and readings, I realized that each person has the idea that someone who has experienced a great amount of failure is more equipped with a variety of skills than someone who has the standardized system of learning. In addition, the viewing that impacted me the most was the TED talk by Diane Laufenberg because enlightened me on the everyday challenges that the new and innovative way of  learning faces in a schools. The parts that were most impactful to me were listening to her explain that one of the main things she faces is negative criticism and feedback from old teachers. She also talks about the different ways that she has had to adapt and teach her students to and express themselves, because each school environment, student and school learning tools has been different. To conclude, this assignment has been insightful and engaging in broadening my understanding and knowledge that failure leads to success and that needs to be taught instead of standardization.

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I chose to do my mind map on 3 different topics gathered from Gardiner, Rose, and Laufenburg; which were experiential learning, creativity, and failure which are all surrounded by education. For the first subtopic, creativity, I started it off with learning new ways to approach all different things, then discover/solve problems and questions in a creative way. Those led me to expand your way of thinking into a new creative way which leads to surprising many students in the classroom. I say surprising many students because creativity can bring out a side to many students that they might not know they have. Then failure, I started off with all learning includes failure, no one is perfect and even the smartest people fail. I also wrote, "fail, process, learn from" and that failure is a part of growing. Then finally failure leads to more potential and skills/ ability which leads to experiential learning. With that, I emphasized that learning includes failure. There are many different ways to learn which leads to many different ways to apply what we learned. Then skills/ abilities go hand and hand with applying them to everyday life (synthesizing mind). And finally creativity.

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My mind map is about education and how Howard Gardner, Mike Rose and Giana Laufenburg's ideas are all connected. Fpr example, The green bubble (Mike Rose)'s idea about IQ tests and any other tests don't determine how smart you are is connected to Diana Laufenburg's bubble because she talks about how multiple choice tests are useless. I think both of these ideas are true because based on my own experiences multiple choice tests don't cover all the material we are taught, and IQ tests don't determine how smart we are. The blue bubble schooling goes out to specially vocational schooling because just because people that go to HVAC schools, plumbing or welding does not mean they are not smart it means they are blue collar and want to work with there hands. In a few modules backs I watched a video on Mike Rose and how he said his family were blue collar and it doesn't mean they did not have an high IQ level thats why I also connected those 2 boxes.

I also added in the bubble school smart or street smart because in Diana's speech she encouraged her students to go out in the world and vote. I added this bubble because because street smarts is sometimes more important than school smarts. For example, when you live on your own you have to learn to do new things. Also in school they don't teach you if you are getting ripped off. Sometimes real life experiences teaches you more than school does.

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I decided to do a venn diagram because I saw many similarities in the way the three of these educators thought. The overall opinion on education from Laufenberg, Gardner, and Rose is that the educational system needs to change with the times. They all agree that there are so many aspects to teaching and learning that have to be reconsidered as information availability changes.
Laufenberg and Gardner agreed on how goals and procedures need to change as the world changes. They also believed in the individuality that every person needs to experience and learn for themselves.
Gardner and Rose agree that in order to learn, you have to be accepted with no prejudice and acceptance. Understanding the people who you are teaching is essential in being a good leader is something they had similar views on.
Rose and Laufenberg agreed on the fact that failure is something that makes learners stronger. To be taught in a way where we are only supposed to be right and make no mistakes makes it harder for us to problem solve or prepare us for the future.

With all of their own various opinions on education, they all have similar overviews of how it should be done. It needs to be progressive and flexible as the world is changing so often.

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I thought that a venn diagram was the best way to articulate the ideas between the three. I found each one to have very interesting ideas. There were definitely some similarities between their ideas but also some minor differences. When looking at the similarities, I think it was clear to see that all three of the educators believe that there needs to be a new system for education. The current system is outdated. Gardner explained how in the past before there was a printing press, people needed to be strong at verbally taking in information and using mnemonics to remember it. Similarly, Lautenberg gave another example saying that her grandmother went to school because that is where the information was. Now, we have the information and school needs to be different to keep up with the changing time. In addition, all three believe that creativity and problem solving is incredibly important in education. Failure must be present because that is the best way for a student to learn. Finally, real life experiences within school is just as important for children.
Although I found that many of the ideas were similar, there were some differences in ideas that I could see from the three educators. First, Gardner believes in the five minds. He believes that these five minds shape life and specifically can be applied in education. Although I would not think that Lautenberg and Rose would disagree, they do not believe that the five minds are responsible for better education, for example. Also, Lautenberg prioritizes three concepts of experiential learning, student voice, and embracing failure. Again, some of these are accepted by the Rose and Gardner but to them are most likely not specifically what they believe must change. Finally, Rose spoke more about the potential of students and prioritizing bringing the less fortunate into a system that welcomes them. His ideas of these untapped potentials are hurting society because many do not get the chance and are just judged upon their grades which I showed in the diagram.
Overall, I found all three of these opinions to be interesting. I was able to show all of these opinions and their connections within the venn diagram and how they interacted with each other. I think that Rose and Lautenberg's ideas are more similar to Gardner's and was able to see this when creating the diagram.

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I chose to split my Mind Map up into the key themes and terms that I heard from both Mike Rose, Diana Laufenberg, and Howard Gardner. I started with education in the center and then broke it down into six subjects: failure, creative thinking, opportunities and chances, ability, experiential learning, and process. Those six categories encompass both Mike Rose and Diana Laufenberg thinking when it comes to education

Failure is something that both Mike Rose and Diana Laufenberg put a big emphasis on. Mike Rose talks about how we assume that low test scores can tell if a student is not able or not smart. But Mike Rose talks about how that is so far from true and that because we think good test scores are the only way to create success but with that one track mind we are not seeing or looking for all the ability and potential that these students have. Diana Laufenberg also talks a lot about failure. It is the first step in success and students need that failure to then do better the next time. Diana Laufenberg also makes a great point that school is no longer where students go to get the information but rather where students come to learn how to use the information. That takes time and we need to accept that failure is not failing it is learning. Which reminds me of something that my sociology 101 professor said which has stuck with me since my first year all the way to my senior year and that is that F.A.I.L is First Attempt in Learning. Diana Laufenberg really was about to explain to us how true this really is.

Creative thinking is an important aspect of education and Diana Laufenberg, as I talked about previously, talks about how students no longer need to come to school to get the information. Think about Google. But what students do need is a place to learn how to use all the information they have already inquire. Therefore, just giving students tests as a bench marker is not supporting their creative thinking and school needs to be a place to foster creative thinking which will not only make the biggest impact in the student’s education but the students future endeavors. If education cannot be a catalyst for creative thinking, then we are doing something wrong.

Opportunities and chances connect more to Mike Rose when he talked about how we cannot write kids off as less than or “damaged” if they are not presented with the same opportunities and chances. Schools and education need to be a place that not only offers students opportunities and chances but equals the playing field so all students can be successful.

Ability for all students is not the same and the way in which they show their ability is not the same. Mike Rose talked a lot about the working mind and working hands. And the why in which students show their ability is dependent on who they are as an individual. Again, their test performance is not a good marker of student’s ability and students should be able to showcase their ability and understanding in a creative way. This also reminds me of a time I was in 8th grade History. I failed a test, and I was so upset. But the teacher knew that I knew the information so she asked me if I would come sit with her during lunch. Without me knowing she asked me each question on the test, and I was able to verbally answer each question correctly. I was just as able as all my classmates. I just needed to express my knowledge and ability in a different way. Mike Rose explained that ability can be seen in a form of storytelling, student’s voices, writing, and hands on work. Tests are not the only factor in students' ability.

Experiential learning is something that Diana Laufenberg talked a lot about in her Ted Talk. Diana Laufenberg talked a lot about learning because students no longer need to come to school to get the information so learning really needs to take place in real places in the world. Diana Laufenberg also talked about the oil spill project and that education needs to not only give the students experience but it needs to mean something to the student. Diana Laufenberg explained, If we keep looking at education as it is the place we go for the information and not about experiential learning empowering student voices and embracing failure, we’re missing the mark” (Diana Laufenberg). I think thinking about education as experiential learning is how we are going to change the future of education.

Process is something that Diana Laufenberg explains that school needs to be a place that students come to process all the information in school in which they have gathered therefore the work which is assigned in school needs to allow kids to go and figure out the process. As well as part of the process is failing, and the education system needs to foster that and allow the failure in the process.

Overall, you can see that each section is connected to each other and that each of these sections are interconnected and a catalyst for each other section. Both Mike Rose and Diana Laufenberg bring to light the important aspects of education that are often overlooked by parents and educators. I think the fact that we no longer go to school to get the information but to learn how to use it is so important for us to realize as well as the importance of failure which both Mike Rose and Diana Laufenberg touched on.

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I decided to divide my mind map into three different sections making education the pain concept of all three. In my mind map I decided to discuss how Mike Rose, Diane Laufenberg, and the 5 minds for future by Howard Gardner develop their theories on education. Rose talks about how kids who don't have the right resources in education struggle and are labeled as poor or without character. Which is extremely unfair because they can not help the lack of resources they are given. Rose stresses how these kids have the ability to be extremely intelligent. I connected that to Diane Laufenberg theory of learning. Although they take different approaches Laufenberg focuses more on the theory that children learn through experiences and developing and understanding for what they have learned on their own. She takes advantage of using resources. Which connects to Rose theory on education and how important resources are when it comes to learning. The 5 minds for Future talks about how we need to develop new ways for a better education system for new generations of children because education is constantly changing.