Although I missed this book talk presentation due to illness, I was actually already familiar with this book. During my practicum experience, my mentor teacher was using Whole New Mind in his freshman humanities class. The students had to do a project where they researched a career that they were interested in and applied elements from the book to that career. During this time, I briefly looked over the book and I saw how students were using it in their projects; however, I didn't get a chance to fully read it.
Looking over the powerpoint from the presentation helped to clear up what the book is about, such as that it talks about the myth of being only left brained or right brained and is more about how to use the whole mind. The powerpoint shows me that the book talks about different ways of thinking and what one can do to practice that kind of thinking. Knowing these different types of thinking and what kind of activities go along with them would help a teacher in differentiating their lessons.
I also decided to take the quiz that was included in the powerpoint that is supposed to determine if I am right brained or left brained, even though that is a misconception. I found this quiz to be really interesting because the questions were very different than other quizzes of this type that I have taken. However, I thought it was a great idea to include this quiz within the powerpoint presentation to break it up and create some conversation and even a bit of movement with the questions asked.
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