What Would You Ask Daniel Pink?

Love your advice.  Questions, really.  UPDATE:  Man, does Steve Borsch of Connecting the Dots take that to a whole new level today with his recent post...

Next week, I will be sitting down on the phone with Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. My hard copy's second title is:  "Moving From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age," which I frankly like better...but either way, embracing the right side of the brain is a delightful thing.

Note: In every single presentation I give re: the future of school design, I point to this book as a mental ground shifter of the highest degree. It is the #1 book I recommend in helping people re-imagine the skills that our kiddos will need to learn in the future to be response-able, creative, design-savvy, problem solvers, symphonic in their thinking, pattern-based, and outstanding collaborators in any project conceivable.

Back to the call.

Besides the blatantly obvious opportunity to connect with a guy who is re-casting the entire premise of creativity as a dominant tool for the future of work, school, and life...what's the purpose of my call with Daniel?

School design, of course. 

I want to ask Daniel to tackle the issue of school design in advance of an published interview we may publish with him at DesignShare.  And in advance of our conversation, I wanted to ask you what question or questions you'd ask him with an eye on how his ideas can influence the way we imagine the future of education and the design of relevant learning environments.

What questions would YOU ask him?

Note:  Thanks to Director Tom (Clifford) for setting up the conversation. Much appreciated. 

Comments

[Rolf Erikson]

Christian, I would be very interested in hearing Dan Pink's thoughts on how he envisions the role of the school library as part of the process of effectively educating Millennials in general and right-brainers specifically. What new and different features and spaces does he think should be a part of the library facility that we don't typically find in current school design?

[Steve Borsch]

Wow...nicely done to snag Dan Pink! This fired me up so I did this post and, rather than re-write a bunch of stuff, take a peek: http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2007/02/the_next_big_le.html

[Ethan]

What physical form and function to you see a school having in the future when today people (who aren’t students) can work from anywhere? And as this trend of being able to work from anywhere continues in the future, how should we educate today’s students on still having people skills and being able to communicate just not through the internet?

How can we design a school to be a place where people are open to the world through the internet but still learn by talking to the people around them?

How can we design high schools and colleges so that students can learn through playing and being creative. (Play, being one of the senses in your book) And seeing that today older students don’t play and create as much as younger students did.

How can the design of our future education system tell a story to the students? A story that contains facts that our just taught to us today in their raw format?

How can the design of a school balance the teaching of facts and the teaching of skills we are taught for right brain thinking?

My favorite I think is the last one. What do you think? Sorry, if these questions don't seem really well thought out. It is late at night and I didn't want to miss the call.

Of coursed I blogged my questions.
http://www.ethanbodnar.com/2007/02/20/questions-for-daniel-pink/