MIT’s Centre for Collective Intelligence for an overview of thinking in this area, www.cci.mit.edu

From such complex sets of assumptions each nation has to take a view of what it is that all young people need to know, understand, and be able to do, if they are to meet those challenges, and take advantage of those opportunities, as well as they can.

Imagining means being skilled at using the ‘inner theatre’ as a test-bed for learning. It means being good at ‘mental rehearsal’, able to use visualization as the powerful adjunct to physical practice it has been shown to be.

In the world outside school, part of knowing how to learn and solve complex problems involves knowing how to . . . deftly use the features of the physical and media environment . . . A central goal for an empowering education [therefore] is to nurture the learners’ attitudes and talents in designing distributed intelligence . . . We should reorient

the only thing that people can say with any certainty about the challenges which lie ahead is that they do not know exactly what they will be – so deciding what and how to teach is a problem. We agree. But the curriculum

Perkins argues that there are basically three kinds of intelligence. The first he calls neural intelligence, which is essentially the innate ‘envelope of ability’

For example, investigating covers all the ways people go about discovering, collecting, weighing and organizing information.

Would using the idea of ‘dispositions’ help me when talking about these ideas with colleagues? Could I use the idea of helping students to become more ready and more willing, as well as more able, to use different aspects of their intelligence? What would that look like in my classroom?

‘possession’, and using tools which have the effect of making you smarter is a kind of cheating. 6 MYTH: Intelligence is an individual not a social concept. 7 MYTH: The concept of intelligence is universally valid, and not closely tied to the details and demands of one’s particular ‘habitat’. 8 MYTH: Intelligence is an intellectual function, separa