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.
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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.
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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 |