This week we our primary focus was on researching our Big Question about shared leadership and the amount of power of the electorate. I also identified my 3 other sources that are a photo from the great depression, an album of a 90’s rap group, and a quote from one of our president's inauguration. These three sources has shown me that the way that people used to think hasn’t really changed over time, everyone still seeks ways to escape the pain and fear of life. Although we haven’t had a ton of instructional time i believe that the independence has allowed me to dig deeper and find my own ways of finding knowledge. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-use-addiction
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This week we mainly worked on finishing and comprehending the meaning of our books. We did this by working on a Character Arc that showed how the main character, John changed and what events forced him to change such as when he assaults Lenina for trying to have sex with him. We also started to talk about our Pecha Kucha presentation and how we are supposed to set up the slides. We also did two creative writings that had to do with blacking out words in a story so they come together and create another story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha This week has been more based on reading our Shared Leadership books. We have been finishing up our novels, taking different notes and trying to understand the deeper meaning of the story. We have been testing our time management skills because we have been given a time span in which we should have our books done. Also we are expected to be taking notes on worksheets that help us comprehend the text. As our worksheets are being finished, we will be starting to construct our Pecha Kucha presentation to finish up the second trimester. We have also been working on how well we can comprehend what we are reading. The notes we have to take force us to dig a little deeper to find more meaningful lessons that we can connect to our own lives in Brave New World, John is alone in the world he is in because he doesn't think the way that everyone else does. In his eyes sex and relationships are seen as a special thing that should be shared with someone you love, not a stranger. Lenina has the opposite view on pleasure and sex, all she wants to do is throw herself at john but everytime she tries he resists his feelings and pushes her away. John is considered an outcast that doesn't fit with any social group so the society comes to call him "The Savage" because of his savage ways of living. Even when bernard has people over to meet him john never leaves him room because he doesn't want to fit in with the others. This week in we have been mainly focused on the same topic as last week which is how a government should be ran and how the actions of the government directly affects the electorate. We touched on many topics in our inference notes where we took quotes and page numbers from our books and described how they relate to our big question about how leadership should be shared. This week we also watched a TED talks that introduced a coder/activist Jennifer Pahlka who talked about how the people can take control of their communities without the government’s influence by using apps that connect locals to other locals so they may be able to do services that the government may normally do such as shoveling sidewalks and digging fire hydrants out of the snow. t http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/11/government-ethics-reform-leadership-citizenship-ethisphere.html digital technology is bringing communities together to help fix, maintain or just help people with regular things that might seem small but can improve the citizens lives. The system of government is still needed to make our lives good but some civil services that everyday people can do everyday make our lives much better. With the help of technology and things like apps, we connect the public people to each other so they can handle small issues as a community without the intervention of the big government. Not only does this new technology based lifestyle make our lives more convenient because it removes the use of a giant government trying to handle millions of other issues, it brings a group of people who live near each other together to help one another. Think of the government as a box, full of rubber bands of all shapes and sizes and colors. If we empty the rubber bands out and tie them all up into the tightest ball possible, that would be us, all of these rubber bands tied together into a ball (by the internet) and then held and kept safe in a box. This week we talked mostly on shared leadership and how the lack of could turn a civilization into mindless zombies. Without shared leadership one idea/person would have total control over every aspect of the civilians lives. This idea of shared leadership stems from the thought that every man is made the same and deserves to have the same rights as everyone else. Without a cooperative effort to give everyone's voice a say, there will be people who will try and take power for their personal gain. The government can not be rean alone, they're to many people to please and not enough resources to do it so the best way to make sure everyone is happy and free they need to have a say and a part in the government who is supposed to be helping them. in the video we watched "The Twilightzone, the obsolete man" we saw a man who had his nation say he was not useful anymore and that his specific service was no longer required, so he would be killed. but the man showed his government by tricking a government official into being as close to death as he was. after the man is killed and the government agent survives the government decides that for the agents cowardliness he would be forced into the same situation as the other obsolete man. https://www.boundless.com/management/textbooks/boundless-management-textbook/leadership-9/other-leadership-perspectives-73/shared-leadership-363-10556/ Some of the main ideas that we touched on this week include the use of stories rather than facts to display an issue. I thought it was really interesting that the brain remembers a story that we can somehow relate to the points but not just straight up facts and data. The main ideas this week also were connected by following the same theme of making us better at reading and writing. Some very important details is that you have to be able to let yourself go out of your comfort zone. Mr schoenborn performed an experiment where he told us a story about his kids and we remembered a random fact just because we heard it and related to it. We learned all of these concepts this week through conversation and over a powerpoint. I’m still trying to learn how to write for a long period of time consistently and still have interesting things to say. I think i tred pretty hard to listen and try to understand all of the concepts. I would think that most of the material i soaked up pretty well and really learned what was being told to me. I still need to work on my creative writing skills and becoming a better creative writer in class. RLB 2This week our main topic was how to tell a story and keep your reader is interested. The TED talks and the 7 elements of storytelling went together to show us the some tools and concepts that will better our writing. We also went over the power of a story, showing us that a story sticks with people and statistics and facts don't leave quite the same impression. Also how if you tend to someones emotional side instead of there rational they're more likely to connect and relate to another persons words Week 3
RLB 4This week we had to figure out how to edit our TIB audio to fit a visual and background music. we had to troubleshoot and figure out how to work wevideo by using the resources we have. one of those being the tutorial video and i looked up some other tutorials on youtube. another thing we worked with was the audio. i had to find a slowing non-distracting beat that would help my story flow and not take the attention away from my voice. RLB 5. This past week we learned how to put together a slideshow about the connections between my Big Question and the novel “The Alchemist”. This slideshow included uploading photos of quotes that relate to my Big Question ( Why do life lessons often lead us to happiness) and then I boxed in the specific paragraph with page number which the quote is located. I gained better understanding of how to use my technology and make a real connections to the book that i am reading because i am reading the book to understand a larger question. Taking the photos of the page number and knowing exactly where to look for the quotes really taught me a new way to understand a book. Also, we had a discussion about how to break our Big Question down into a thesis and create an essay that paints a visual into the reader's mind about how the characters reacted to the things they learn whether they are good or bad. |
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