Growing nex-Gen thinkers

ImaginationFarm.org – A community outreach engine and an aggregator of right brain teaching tools for use in class and at home.

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Imagination Farm is an action station and a repository of ideas. It is an outreach platform for households, communities and corporate partners to promote creativity through innovative initiatives and new teaching techniques. New ideas from a child, parent, or progressive educator will nourish the next generation of great thinkers.

MANIFESTO

Behold the super heroes.

Step up, and help them take us all to a better place.

Free them from conformity, routine, and standardized measurement.

Liberate their creativity.

They are dreaming for us all– if their dreams die, so does a part of our future.

Join us in building a safe place for the fearless child.

If we teach them well enough today, they will teach us well enough tomorrow.

ImaginationFarm.Org

Growing next-Gen thinkers

360 Degree Immersion

Imagination Farm is an immersive and fully integrated experience. It lives in the class room, the home, the community, and at all relevant touch points connecting every constituency in awareness and action to nurture right brain development.

The Hub

Think of Imagination Farm as a sort of on-going online and very interactive TED symposium dedicated to a single goal: developing practical teaching methods to encourage right brain creativity. Designed to be an engaging, supportive, and communal experience, it is organized by sections appropriate to children, parents, and educators. It is also a place of give and take. All participants are encouraged to make contributions and to build upon the thinking and initiatives present at ImaginationFarm.org.

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ImaginationFarm.org would include a complete tool kit or dashboard where, among other things, white papers from experts could be posted for school districts and educators to consider, debate and potentially implement. Speculative topics might include (for starters):

• Mind Mapping-the alternative testing method.
• Cross-course pollination-how do students sing a math equation, draw a history lesson, or find the science in their language class.
• On Line learning-already popular in many school districts, an initiative where teachers post homework on line for parental engagement.
• The  Think On It  meditation program, clearing the mind for better focus.

Using all available media platforms, expert educators and lay people alike would be invited to make contributions to plant seeds in the "Farm". Eventually a crop of initiatives would be examined and tested. When efficacy is demonstrated, implementation would spread.

Corporate Partners

Create consumer awareness messaging through TV, print, online, out of home, and gaming. Co-op with major brands who share a kindred spirit with "imagination".

A natural place to partner is with companies and other entities already committed to nurturing creativity.

Playful and inviting co-branded URL-driving online messaging to raise awareness and encourage immediate participation.

Inventive and imaginative outdoor and installation messaging to reinforce the program.

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Media Partners

Find a like-minded media partner (suggestions below) and create programming around the success stories at Imagination Farm. Viewed on TV, Hulu, online, or streamed to mobile device etc.

“Left Brain/Right Brain” with Leiv Schreiber

Above- PBS (or other) documentary series narrated by Leiv Schreiber. We follow multiple families of various ethnic/economic backgrounds throughout a school year while participating in the IF Program. Mindmapping allows us to qualify the results. Webisodes viewed on line, streamed etc. (Verizon, ATT&T)

Classroom

Learning tools, lessons, and testing methodologies generated by Imagination Farm would all have practical application in the classroom. And the results of the in-class implementation would be posted on the site for educators everywhere to observe.

Cross-course pollination — how do students sing a math equation, draw a history lesson, or find the science in their language class.

Cross-border pollination — with Skype. International teams work together on the "farm"to think right brain about global challenges. Create online pen pals.

Household

Offering lessons to children at home that compliment those in class. Encourages participation between family members and siblings of different ages.

At home children are allowed to make their own decisions about lessons, allowing them to "own" more of learning experience. Owning the learning experience is one of the most sustainable motivations.

Imagination Farm, the Game. Designed to get children moving and engage them in simultaneous thinking, rhythm, art and music; all hallmarks of right brain function.

Witness consulted with Dr. Jeff Miller and would like to thank him for his participation with this project. Dr. Miller is a tenured Associate Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills where he teaches Educational Psychology, Multicultural Education, and Classroom Management. He is the lead author on two books, Understanding and Engaging Adolescents and I Want to Sign Up Again Next Season. He is a nationally known speaker and consultant on student motivation and urban school renewal.