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Mr. Schauer tweeted that it’s been discovered you can boost creativity with side-to-side eye movement. He claims that “people who watch a target moving side-to-side for 30 seconds have been tested as producing significantly more ideas when immediately given a creative task”. He goes on to say that this technique is, “thought to increase the cross-talk between the hemispheres. Perhaps you’d like to try this and see if it impacts your creativity…. Please click here.
This reminds me to go back and read some of the information on Arts and the brain like this article in a mesartsed blog post from June 19, 2009 written by Liz Bowie, printed from the Baltimore Sun. Using our whole brain and developing both sides so we are more integrative in our thinking is an important part of what arts educators do with students. In fact, I believe, it is our responsibility as arts educators to present articles and research to school decision makers so they understand the importance from this angle. It is another piece of the puzzle.
And another article you might want to read from “Power States” blog of Joseph Bennette with an entry entitled “Using Your Whole Brain”.
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