Annie Murphy Paul, Author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The Science of How We Get Smarter
on twitter @anniemurphypaul
- engaging presentation, posits intelligence can be acquired
- findings suggest that our schools can impart not just knowledge and skills but intelligence itself to students
- thinks of intelligence as a "reservoir and a pipeline"
- says we don't know how to measure the depth or capacity of someone's intelligence reservoir
- we're focusing too much on increasing the capacity of the reservoir instead of the pipeline
- intelligence is sensitive to its "setting", so pay attention to the environment
- instead of talking about the "achievement gap" > > understand "cognitively congenial settings"
- the ability to shape one's own setting, in the way that works best for learning > > a key 21st c skill
- companies can also enhance the brainpower of the workers they already employ when they focus on the setting
There's more in the Storify