2. TED Radio Hour Climate Mindset
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose and Hacking Zoom School
From YouTube - posted June 24, 2015:
"This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.The full, non-animated RSA talk can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-h...
12.4.2020 Friday
Journal TGIF: What are you grateful for this week?
What did you learn independently this week?
What article or YouTube video or podcast did you find interesting?
Please share a specific link - share with your classmates in the chat.
What are you intellectually curious to learn more about?
After watching the EdPuzzle video on Hacking Education, how might that shift the paradigm of learning and teaching for you?
What is your mindset towards learning? Are you hacking your education?
What is your motivation? Do you have a sense of autonomy - choice?
Do you have a sense of purpose for learning?
How are you striving for mastery?
How might we collaborate and share our learning in this global pandemic that's forcing us to rethink and reimagine school with technology?
I believe you have stories to share. I believe you are creative. I believe you have an opportunity to learn and rediscover the joy of learning and sharing your intellectual curiosity?
So, what is your story?
I sense that so many have been checkout of traditional school for many years.
I forget who said it first, and I have heard it many times: "I hate school, but I love learning."
I agree.
School to me has become almost a sad and tragic chore - a manipulation of grades and scores to punish some and reward others that can jump through the hoops.
In a global pandemic, mental health - from isolation to depression - and zoom fatigue are real - and I fear we as teachers have a choice to exacerbating learned helplessness: an attitude of who cares? and why try if I am only going to get _____ (insert grade that will check the box).
We are going through an historic time. Unprecedented. These are cliche at this point.
Said over and over again. And it's cliche to say this - again and again.
There's the Covid virus that pushes us deeper into devices and echo chambers and possible misinformation that plagues the world like a virus.
We need to understand the FB problem and social media impact on our hearts and minds - our society and our time - and our friends and our families. We have never been more connected yet paradoxically disconnected.
And time is ticking on our environment as we digitally distract ourselves with Netflix next episodes and likes and follows and tweets and streaks and snaps and stories.
So, what is your story?
Are you too tired to care?
Not surprising with sleep deprivation from notifications and blue light devices that decimate our deep sleep with the digital deluge of information. Insomnia wreaks havoc on kids who scroll while anxious for likes while fearing trolls with wicked finsta comments.
I wonder...
How do we make the most of this time?
How do we reimagine what is possible?
How might we rediscover our creativity in the midst of the confinement and constraints?
How might we be more grateful and share our gratitude?
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Listen to this Conversation: Brené Brown with Dr. Sarah Lewis on The Rise, the Creative Process and the Difference Between Mastery and Success
The power of art...
I have been thinking about this idea a lot this year.
How might art save us in this dark year?
How might art offer a new imagination to representation for social justice?
How might creativity move us from despair?
In our solitude, we might feel less alone. Less isolated. If there were greater sense of purpose, we could read whatever we always wanted to read.
Seeking mastery, we might learn how to learn new hobbies - from cooking to scrapbooking.
So much to learn and now we have this time this year, but we wish it away to get back to normal. The business of traveling and jetting around the world. Now we zoom.
Wherever we go there we are.
How do we chase success?
How do we fear failure?
How do we strive for mastery?
To learn, to grow, to live. I wonder...
Listen to this:
Brené Brown: Hi everyone, I’m Brené Brown, and welcome to the Dare to Lead Podcast. This is such a great conversation. Grab your journal, grab a pen and a piece of paper, you’re going to want to take notes on this one. It is somewhere between a full-on, geek out kind of nerdriffic conversation and just wholeheartedness. And for me, personally, moving conversation with Dr. Sarah Lewis. So it’s a two-part series. This is Part One. We talk about her book, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. And Sarah and I talk about why the word failure doesn’t quite capture the often transformative experience of falling and beginning again. We also talk about the difference between success and mastery. And for me, this is so important because mastery is very important to me and not something we talk about enough. And we also talk about the power of setting audacious goals that are right outside our grasp. I cannot wait to bring you this conversation. I think you are going to love it. Dr. Sarah Lewis, it’s moving, it’s a moving conversation.
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Michael Gazzaniga: Early Split-Brain Research
From late 1950s Michael Gazzaniga
2012 Nature article by David Wolman:
Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.
Friday, July 3, 2020
TGIF Home Again: Learning and Listening from Vincent Harding to Jason Reynolds - Both Citing James Baldwin
This morning I started listening to recent podcast On Being with Krista Tippet interview with Vincent Harding (previously aired and recorded February 24, 2011).
"Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ’50s and ’60s was spiritually as well as politically vigorous; it aspired to a “beloved community,” not merely a tolerant integrated society. He pursued this through patient-yet-passionate cross-cultural, cross-generational relationships. And he posed and lived a question that is freshly in our midst: Is America possible?"
Excerpt:
Listen to June 25th, 2020 Interview with Jason Reynolds:
"James Baldwin, my famous Baldwin quote, and he has a gazillion, obviously. But my favorite Baldwin quote is, “The interior life is the real life.” The interior life is the real life. “And the intangible dreams of a person may have a tangible effect on the world.” It’s basically saying, what one can imagine, internally, what one can think about when nobody knows, when nobody’s around, one’s secrets, could shift human life. What an amazing thing to think about.
"Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ’50s and ’60s was spiritually as well as politically vigorous; it aspired to a “beloved community,” not merely a tolerant integrated society. He pursued this through patient-yet-passionate cross-cultural, cross-generational relationships. And he posed and lived a question that is freshly in our midst: Is America possible?"
Excerpt:
Tippett:When you say that we, as human beings, have a built-in need for stories, what your work shows is that we human beings also know what to do with stories, right? So that, as you say, the young people you work with know to take those stories as tools and pieces of empowerment in this day, this year.
Harding:For their own best work. Because now, it’s a powerful time in this country for young people and others to be asking the question, “And what are we for?” Do we exist for some reason other than competing with China or finding the best possible technological advances? Are there some things that are even deeper that we are meant for, meant to be, meant to do, meant to achieve? Jimmy Baldwin used to like to talk about us achieving ourselves, finding who we are, what we’re for, and making that possible for each other.
So you’re right about — the story — just as you were speaking, what I was thinking about, Krista, was when the mother with the baby at her bosom starts telling stories is clearly not just to pass on information. What I find is that, even in some of the strangest situations, most often where I go, where I speak, where I share, I start out by asking people to tell a little of their stories. And it is amazing what people discover of themselves, of their connections, of their community. It’s wonderful.
Tippett:You know, I’ve learned that too. To ask someone even to tell a little of their story is to give them a gift because we don’t get asked that question. And we do learn as much as we tell. You wrote a very important book, Hope and History.
Listen to June 25th, 2020 Interview with Jason Reynolds:
"James Baldwin, my famous Baldwin quote, and he has a gazillion, obviously. But my favorite Baldwin quote is, “The interior life is the real life.” The interior life is the real life. “And the intangible dreams of a person may have a tangible effect on the world.” It’s basically saying, what one can imagine, internally, what one can think about when nobody knows, when nobody’s around, one’s secrets, could shift human life. What an amazing thing to think about.
And my role, even with Stamped and remixing — and the reason we called it a remix is because it’s not a YA adaptation, because I actually rewrote the entire book.
I wanted — we, he and I both — wanted to figure out how we could tap into the imagination of young people. And when it comes to books around race, or when it comes to history books, usually they are presented to students, not humans."
"Mavis Nicholson speaks exclusively to American Civil rights activist and renowned Playwright novelist, essayist, poet, and social critic James Baldwin. First shown: 02/12/1987"
From YouTube.com:
Author James Baldwin taped a candid and fascinating studio interview at WCKT - Miami in 1963. Featured in this edition of the long-running program, "Florida Forum": questions by an in-studio audience and a panel of local journalists.
bio: James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 -- December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin's essays, for instance, "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America, vis-à-vis their inevitable if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.[1]
Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance, The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).
His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals—depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals' quest for acceptance—namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room (1956), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.[2]
Baldwin's best-known novel is his first, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953).
James Baldwin Speaks! "America, it is not the Negro problem, it is your problem!"
Speech to the Los Angeles The Non-Violent Action Committee December, 1964. NVAC was formed by militant dissenters from the Congress of Racial Equality. The talk includes a question and answer session.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
No Shame - Step Inside the Circle
Step Inside the Circle from Fritzi Horstman on Vimeo.
A friend posted this documentary to FB which made me pause.
The connection between trauma and shame and poverty and mass incarceration cannot be denied.
I was reminded of Brene Brown's "Listening to Shame" TED Talk (transcript).
and Jackson Katz's TED Talk on domestic abuse and victim-blaming.
I have been thinking a lot about prison reform, policing, history, and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
I became curious to learn more after watching this clip - I found:
https://insidecircle.org/
And this TED Talk:
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a whole, healthy man. "The challenge is to eradicate this cycle of emotional illiteracy and groupthink," he says.
A friend posted this documentary to FB which made me pause.
The connection between trauma and shame and poverty and mass incarceration cannot be denied.
I was reminded of Brene Brown's "Listening to Shame" TED Talk (transcript).
and Jackson Katz's TED Talk on domestic abuse and victim-blaming.
I have been thinking a lot about prison reform, policing, history, and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
I became curious to learn more after watching this clip - I found:
https://insidecircle.org/
And this TED Talk:
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a whole, healthy man. "The challenge is to eradicate this cycle of emotional illiteracy and groupthink," he says.
1,516,234 views TEDxNewYork | November 2014
"As a teenager, Ismael Nazario was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he spent 300 days in solitary confinement -- all before he was ever convicted of a crime. Now as a prison reform advocate he works to change the culture of American jails and prisons, where young people are frequently subjected to violence beyond imagination. Nazario tells his chilling story and suggests ways to help, rather than harm, teens in jail."Monday, April 20, 2020
Who in America has the Privilege to Protest?
I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law.— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) April 19, 2020
Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Watch this TED Talk: "Making Stress Your Friend"
"Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others."
Read - and copy a couple of quotes from the digital transcript...
What are your TWO takeaways?
Consider sharing your takeaways in the form of a TWO stanza poem in honor of poetry month.
Please feel free to share any reading, resources, or routines that help you - that may help your classmates.
Consider...
Suggested readings on coping with stress - for mental health:
From The Washington Post:
"How you can help during the coronavirus outbreak"
Suggested videos and podcasts for mindfulness - and social-emotional learning (SEL):
Follow on Twitter:
Suggested videos and podcasts for mindfulness - and social-emotional learning (SEL):
Follow on Twitter:
Cover reveal of my next book! Get the story behind the cover design, title, and a bit about my writing process, plus a short excerpt, at: https://t.co/ityjILo975 Pre-orders: https://t.co/A58kk8rk6v or https://t.co/4Ci62f6EXp pic.twitter.com/5xVf5pqIMX— Kelly McGonigal (@kellymcgonigal) April 8, 2019
NOTE - Kelly McGonigal retweeted:
We’re excited to launch StoryCorps Connect, a new free platform that enables you to take part in the magic of a StoryCorps interview — all while doing it remotely. Find out how you can connect with a loved one in a new way today: https://t.co/scKXuq84wz— StoryCorps (@StoryCorps) April 9, 2020
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