3/3/2017 0 Comments Blog Post #6 "STEM Education"This article, "After-School Programs Foster STEM Skills" is about the impact of after school stem programs and the progress that they made. According to the study that is undergoing, more than 70 percent have had a positive gain in the STEM program. The stem program is a way to show different interests in things you can study without affecting your grades in any way. This article shows many studies and stats on how well the STEM program is going and effecting children in over 160 school programs.
They focus on the STEM program so much because of the progress that they have made with the program. The STEM program makes students comfortable in
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John Cloud's intent in writing this article was the battle between what make determines what a genius is and could anyone cultivate a genius, meaning make someone into one whether it is nature or nurture. In his conclusion he says that genius can be very hard to discern. Kids who want to encourage being a genius need a chance just to show how hard they work and determination to whatever the task at hand is. Whether it is to become a genius or not. Higher IQs does not always make a child a genius. With this information I can approach my Genius Hour Project with the mind set that test scores does not always make me who I am, the hard work and dedication to my academics and project can determine who I want to be. I can approach my Genius Hour Project with the intent of focusing on my plan and what I want to accomplish with it. I do not have to be born a genius
11/23/2016 0 Comments Blog Post #4 "What's in a TED Talk"After watching the video led by Ken Robinson about how to escape education's death valley it opened my mind to many things about education. My views and Ken Robinson's views are very similar. His thoughts are that education is not mechanical but yet a human system. He says there are three principles on which human life flourish's. One is humans are all different and diverse. Education alone is based not on diversity but yet conformity. I do believe that his concepts do pertain to Genius hour because he is saying that to thrive in education you need to do what interests you and that curiosity sparks the brain in kids. Genius hour is about what we as teenagers or children want to learn more about or help the community. I do not believe in what he says about ADHD and that he does not believe that it is an epidemic. Ted presented his speech very well and made his point very clear. If I had to present my own TED talk I would set my main points across and build off of that like he did. All together I thought this speech was very well thought out and it opened my mind to many things I did not think of with education and how we as kids learn or need to learn.
11/11/2016 0 Comments How Do Geniuses Think?In the article "How Geniuses Think," the author describes a genius not as someone who gets a 1600 on their SAT score, or someone who manages to master many languages at the age of seven But an individual who can be far more creative or intelligent or even more intelligent than creative. Earlier people did studies on what they thought was a genius. Someone who was fatherless or motherless like Dickens or Darwin, or was sickly as a child. In the end though the data piled up to nothing. The shared strategies of a genius may be how they find a new perspective to a problem that no one else has taken. Geniuses will make their thoughts visible such as making diagrams or graphs to show what they think will work or what they know. They will then produce what they figured out by making quotas for themselves and their workers if any. Geniuses will make combinations of what they think is clearly similar or not. The geniuses style of thought stands out creatively. Philosophers believe that geniuses are able to think different thoughts then each other because they could tolerate ambivalence between opposites. Aristotle believed metaphors were a sign of a genius. Geniuses prepare themselves for the chance that something could go wrong or fail that they can do something else. My genius hour project encourages me to do some of these strategies like prepare myself if something fails so I can learn from it and try something else. Which is something that everyone should use and learn in everyday life.
Today the article that we read was about the Genius hour project. It gave examples on teachers who led a class on Genius hour and gave their children the opportunity to do whatever they wanted to. The article talked about ways to sell the idea to parents so they would understand what their kids were doing in the classroom. Selling it to students was a main topic also because some students were set in their ways about assigned assignments and a teacher telling them what to do instead of the Genius hour project where you were the teacher and could pick what you wanted to learn more about. The article gave an overview on what teachers were doing and actually what Genius hour is. This article showed me that failure is okay. Not everything that I am going to try to do will come out perfectly. I can work around my failures in my own project and drive my ideas a different way to suit the challenges and failures I will face. I will approach my own Genius hour project with the mindset that things are not set in stone and I can mend the flaws and work around them. Failure is not a bad thing. It can change your project in a way you did not think of approaching it and make it better.
10/7/2016 0 Comments Blog Post #1: Making a PlanIn the month of October I plan to research as much as I can about our environment we are surrounded in and post ways we can influence it in a positive way. I want to get those facts out their so people will be more self conscious about the little decisions they make everyday that impacts the world. In the month of November I plan on working with our Environmental club to help around our school. I am a member of the Environmental club and they do many great things to help out around the community and help our planet. Just the little things like putting recycling bins around the halls can make an impact or do monthly bins that have a certain thing people could donate like old eye glasses. In the month of December I wish to do fundraisers and raise money for habitat for humanity and other things around our community that can benefit others. Also I would like to set up a group that after the basketball games would help clean up the bleachers and trash that people leave around our school. This is my itinerary for the completion of my project by January 10th, 2017.
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AuthorI am Abbey Erickson. I am a senior at Kingsford high school. I am making this blog to get across the importance of the environment and how we can conserve what we need. ArchivesCategories |