AWNM Symphony Period 5

 

Scribe: 4-23-14 P5

SHORT ACT DAY (23 minutes total)

First, Smith read off the schedule for the class (click here for today’s schedule). 

Then two former TED Talk students (one of them from Moritz’s class and one from Smith’s) gave their tips. To listen to their tips (combined with Smith’s), click here (it’s 13:02 minutes long).

Smith then discussed the Shirky Summary Response, asking what the importance of our global-connectedness through technology is… She said (that Shirky said) that we can change the world, because collective intelligence is so huge that it can create results of great communal and civic value (citing Syria, Egypt, Kony 2012, and Ukraine as examples of where the collective information brought issues to light). Smith stressed that we go further in our response than just the speech of Shirky. She said that we keep limiting ourselves in our writing; she asked that, instead, we extend our thinking.

Smith then talked us through a 3 minute mental health check (the overall consensus was that everyone was STRESSED OUT).

Homework: TED Blog 4 due tomorrow, read Symphony

AWNM Story Period 5

 

Scribe (Griffin) April 17, 2014 Period: 5

Today was fishbowl             .

HW: Blog 2 due tomorrow, Possibility is for a choice blog is Duckworth’s grit

You should have lots of comments on your first blog.

Helpful Tips:

• you should have the link to the video in your blog
• think about verbs, using digital enhancements,
• don’t use because in topic sentences,
• link to sources, extend,
• focus on spacing
• look at the word color,
• analyze speaking style,
• don’t use personal words
• look at blog after you post it

we then looked at our schedule :

The first page should have the schedule that we desire next year for first and second semester with section and course numbers

Ex: open master schedule, find American Lit. Honors

If want Mrs. Ackerman 2nd hour

______________________________________________________________________________

Amer. Lit. Honors ____I_______________________________________________________>

208011.5-20 I

I

Tips on scheduling:

• Start with core classes then work with that
• Don’t do schedule in pen, do it in pencil
• Have enough alternate classes that if you don’t get what you want, then you can get another class that interests you.
• Be calm during arena schedule
• Get the teacher initials before the 28th
• Use the practice sheet, it’s not required, but it is smart

Tomorrow is going to be work time, and 15 min. of discussion time on design.        .

Fishbowl:

a few Questions

Comment From Eliana

Would you buy something that is not good looking? Would you buy something that does not have a function?

Comment From Kira P Does everyone have the capability to be a designer?

Comment From Paige Paulsen Would it be fair to say that public schools try to offer a wide variety of subjects? Would it be better to have many specialized schools or maintain the current standard of teaching a little about a lot in one setting?

Comment From Steven Hindman  

How much does this hammer cost?

Comment From Comment From Steven Hindman

How about this one?

A few answers:

Comment From Caroline McPhillips  

Eliana: I think it depends on how well the product works. I think that company would have to market their product more and "harder" if that makes sense

Josie Lee: Kira: I definitely think that we all have potential to be designers, and I think that our ability to comprehend things differently gives us more f a chance to do design. Just the fact that we all learn differently proves that we are all original

Comment From Amy R   Paige: I think that specialized schools should become more widely available for everyone...like right now, the only magnet school for kids in our area is DSA and STEM, which can both be pretty far away from Centennial/Littleton/suburbs area. I think that traditional schooling should still be kept, but also make magnet schools more widespread & accessible.

Ken Robinson SR

Sir Ken Robinsons’ “How Schools Kill Creativity”, expresses how the school system fails to conform to all types of genius. Robinson proves this point by displaying the traditional learning system and how it destroys unconventional subjects.

Sir Ken Robinsons’ How Schools Kill Creativity”, accurately portrays that the education system today is discouraging kids to have creative jobs. The system does this by creating a hierarchy of subjects, making how students learn the same for every subject, and depicting mistakes to be unacceptable. Ken says that current public schooling holds the “core” classes as more important than classes that incorporate creativeness (Robinson). Richard Florida explains the importance of creativity “The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas, new high-tech businesses and regional growth (Florida). This shows how important creativeness is to the economy and ultimately the future. How students learn is very important and affects how effective a learning environment is. Robinson states that almost every country learns in the same way and it demolishes creative urges (Robinson). General Psychology defines learning as “acquiring relatively permanent change in behavior through experience” (general-psychology.weebly.com). With the same experience we will never learn anything new. Proving that our public schooling system is distinguishing new ideas. What students learn in school today is how to be right and that being wrong is not acceptable. Robinson states that kids today are formed to think that being right nine times out of ten and all other mistakes are fatal flaws. Creativity is based on performing mistakes. James Joyce once said “mistakes are the portals of discovery” (James Joyce). This quote explains that without mistakes the human race would never advance. With these philosophies absent in schools society will never evolve from the industrial revolution. Creativity is the bridge to enlightenment and advancement. Without creativity society will always be stuck in the past.

AWNM Design Period 5

 

Scribe 4/11- Grace Carlson

Remember: Design chapter must be read and annotated by Thursday (for the fish bowel), the first TED Talk is due Wednesday. Here's the blogging expectations and here's  the link for the 1st video.


Mrs. Brock came in to talk to the class about the personality exams we did. She first describes introverts and extroverts in order to help us understand our classmates and our learning needs. For example extroverts need to talk out their ideas and thoughts, while introverts want to think before they speak. She then spoke about sensing and intuitive types, thinking and feeling students, and judging and perceiving types.