Upside-Down Brilliance
The Visual-Spatial Learner
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To read an excerpt from Upside-Down Brilliance, A Vision of Education in the
21st century, click here.
Illustrated by Buck Jones
All rights reserved. Copyright 2002
Do you know things without being able to explain how or why?
Do you solve problems in unusual ways?
Do you think in pictures rather than in words?
If so, you are not alone. One-third of the population thinks in images.
You may be one or live with one. If you teach, it is absolutely certain that some of your
students—probably the ones you aren’t
reaching—are visual-spatial learners.
Dr. Linda Silverman coined the term “visual-spatial learner” in 1981
to describe the unique gifts of people who think in images. They get
the big picture because they see the world through artists’ eyes.
They remember what they see, but forget what they hear.
They’re disorganized, can’t spell and have no sense of time, but they have
an infectious sense of humor, wild imaginations and can lose themselves
completely in the joy of the moment. Visual-spatial brilliance created
the computer and the Internet, the vivid displays at the Olympics,
and the International Space Station.
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner is the blueprint for parenting,
teaching and living with these delightfully different beings. It is also a manual for
discovering and honoring your own hidden gifts.
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