On Friday 8th September we explored 'Challenge Your Mindset' which is one of ten strategies in City of Edinburgh's Health and Wellbeing programme for "Building Resilience."
Pupils were encouraged to have a Growth Mindset and realise that their abilities are not fixed. Believing that achievement is possible is important, but lots of effort and being open to make and learn from mistakes are also keys to success. We watched videos from Class Dojo and Sport Scotland to encourage us to keep challenging ourselves and keep persevering in our efforts.
Miss McGrouther's P6B class has created a display with inspiring quotes on self belief entitled "Believe in Your #Selfie." Ivy and Alba researched leadership quotes for homework, working hard to impress their teacher with their extra efforts and shared these at Assembly.
The first Maths Week Scotland takes place next week and Ms Mackintosh is leading many maths events and activities in school. Some classes are also taking part in a national Sumdog competition, in school, at home or both.
Today, 8th September, is International Literacy Day and pupils have been invited to take part in the First Minister's Reading Challenge again this year. Reading passports have been ordered and reading challenges will take place throughout the year. One of the first is to join a local library, which then gives access to dozens of free resources such as Mathletics and ebooks.
This week P7C pupils assisted at Assembly in a quiz and in celebrating pupil achievements.
How Cool Brands Stay Hot at the Radio Advertising AwardsInSites on Stage
How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y, presented by Joeri Van den Bergh at the Radio Advertising Awards in Amsterdam (NL) on Tuesday June 11, 2013.
On Friday 8th September we explored 'Challenge Your Mindset' which is one of ten strategies in City of Edinburgh's Health and Wellbeing programme for "Building Resilience."
Pupils were encouraged to have a Growth Mindset and realise that their abilities are not fixed. Believing that achievement is possible is important, but lots of effort and being open to make and learn from mistakes are also keys to success. We watched videos from Class Dojo and Sport Scotland to encourage us to keep challenging ourselves and keep persevering in our efforts.
Miss McGrouther's P6B class has created a display with inspiring quotes on self belief entitled "Believe in Your #Selfie." Ivy and Alba researched leadership quotes for homework, working hard to impress their teacher with their extra efforts and shared these at Assembly.
The first Maths Week Scotland takes place next week and Ms Mackintosh is leading many maths events and activities in school. Some classes are also taking part in a national Sumdog competition, in school, at home or both.
Today, 8th September, is International Literacy Day and pupils have been invited to take part in the First Minister's Reading Challenge again this year. Reading passports have been ordered and reading challenges will take place throughout the year. One of the first is to join a local library, which then gives access to dozens of free resources such as Mathletics and ebooks.
This week P7C pupils assisted at Assembly in a quiz and in celebrating pupil achievements.
How Cool Brands Stay Hot at the Radio Advertising AwardsInSites on Stage
How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y, presented by Joeri Van den Bergh at the Radio Advertising Awards in Amsterdam (NL) on Tuesday June 11, 2013.
Originally published at: http://thoughtleaderretreat.com/podcast/ryan-westwood/
After making the Inc. 500 and a successful exit from his tech startup, Ryan Westwood transitioned to sharing his expertise with other entrepreneurs--by speaking at business conferences and groups, and writing regularly for Forbes.com.
Lectures 19 and 20: The Boring Lecture - Valuable Life Strategies for Escapin...Fahri Karakas
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: "THE BORING LECTURE"
“Curiosity and creativity are the new productivity.”
Dr. Fahri Karakas
Despite the abundance of entertainment media at the touch of our fingertips, we easily feel bored these days and we desperately want to escape from our mundane lives. Boredom strikes us particularly hard when we feel trapped by endless tasks, responsibilities, habits, and routines in our lives. We want to escape and immerse ourselves in new worlds – perhaps worlds that are more colorful, exciting, rich, and novel. We seek adventures to save us from all the baggage, drudgery, stress, and anxiety that surrounds us.
‘The Boring Lecture’ invites you to new possibilities and exciting life strategies to escape from boredom. It takes a bit of imagination, courage, and experimentation to get out of boredom (the rut). We will try to escape monotony and mediocrity through embracing uncertainty, curiosity, and wonder. Towards this goal, we take on a cross-disciplinary tour and explore geeks, mavericks, eccentric artists, weirdoes, crazy entrepreneurs, inventors, dreamers, mind-expanding authors, and insane filmmakers. As we travel from the sublime to the ridiculous, we will expand our sense of what is possible. Asteroids, stars, black holes, computer games, books, and movies will accompany us on our wonderful journey.
We will travel through our body, our mind, our sleep, and our dreams. We will try to solve two dozens of mini-puzzles and we will experiment with a dozen mini-learning adventures. We will explore future disruptive innovations and potential trillionaire sectors. We will learn about the new gold rush: The space economy. Finally, we will fly through space and land on Mars. We will learn about the Mars Generation and imagine what daily life might look like on the red planet.
This will be a wild tour – far from boring - are you ready?
Contents:
Review of Last Class
Puzzles
The Boring Lecture:
◦Exercise: Create your Reading Challenge
◦Exercise: Create your own YouTube Channel
◦Exercise: Create your own Manifesto
◦Exercise: Create your own Turnip Prize rubbish art entry
◦Exercise: Creative writing – complete the story
◦Exercise: Seeing with 100 Eyes
◦Exercise: Discuss your Sleep and Dreams
◦Exercise: Imagine disruptive innovations and sectors
◦Exercise: Imagine flying across the universe + daily life on Mars
Mini-Workshop: MIND, BODY, and SLEEP
Mini-Workshop: SPACE and MARS
Key Takeaways
Originally published at: http://thoughtleaderretreat.com/podcast/ryan-westwood/
After making the Inc. 500 and a successful exit from his tech startup, Ryan Westwood transitioned to sharing his expertise with other entrepreneurs--by speaking at business conferences and groups, and writing regularly for Forbes.com.
Lectures 19 and 20: The Boring Lecture - Valuable Life Strategies for Escapin...Fahri Karakas
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS: "THE BORING LECTURE"
“Curiosity and creativity are the new productivity.”
Dr. Fahri Karakas
Despite the abundance of entertainment media at the touch of our fingertips, we easily feel bored these days and we desperately want to escape from our mundane lives. Boredom strikes us particularly hard when we feel trapped by endless tasks, responsibilities, habits, and routines in our lives. We want to escape and immerse ourselves in new worlds – perhaps worlds that are more colorful, exciting, rich, and novel. We seek adventures to save us from all the baggage, drudgery, stress, and anxiety that surrounds us.
‘The Boring Lecture’ invites you to new possibilities and exciting life strategies to escape from boredom. It takes a bit of imagination, courage, and experimentation to get out of boredom (the rut). We will try to escape monotony and mediocrity through embracing uncertainty, curiosity, and wonder. Towards this goal, we take on a cross-disciplinary tour and explore geeks, mavericks, eccentric artists, weirdoes, crazy entrepreneurs, inventors, dreamers, mind-expanding authors, and insane filmmakers. As we travel from the sublime to the ridiculous, we will expand our sense of what is possible. Asteroids, stars, black holes, computer games, books, and movies will accompany us on our wonderful journey.
We will travel through our body, our mind, our sleep, and our dreams. We will try to solve two dozens of mini-puzzles and we will experiment with a dozen mini-learning adventures. We will explore future disruptive innovations and potential trillionaire sectors. We will learn about the new gold rush: The space economy. Finally, we will fly through space and land on Mars. We will learn about the Mars Generation and imagine what daily life might look like on the red planet.
This will be a wild tour – far from boring - are you ready?
Contents:
Review of Last Class
Puzzles
The Boring Lecture:
◦Exercise: Create your Reading Challenge
◦Exercise: Create your own YouTube Channel
◦Exercise: Create your own Manifesto
◦Exercise: Create your own Turnip Prize rubbish art entry
◦Exercise: Creative writing – complete the story
◦Exercise: Seeing with 100 Eyes
◦Exercise: Discuss your Sleep and Dreams
◦Exercise: Imagine disruptive innovations and sectors
◦Exercise: Imagine flying across the universe + daily life on Mars
Mini-Workshop: MIND, BODY, and SLEEP
Mini-Workshop: SPACE and MARS
Key Takeaways
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Editor's Notes
2. Ask about the pictures: Have you ever felt like this in a lesson? Have you had students look like this? 3. Put the students in pairs to discuss the questions.
The lesson is 'dry' - too abstract or theoretical. The teacher is doing all the work (TTT). The teacher isn't doing enough work (excessive amounts of student-centred work). The lesson is too easy or too difficult. The lesson has no clear aim. The lesson feels slow. The lesson focuses too much on one skill or language area. The students have been sitting still for too long. So we need to make sure they are motivated. Let’s consider motivation…
The lesson is 'dry' - too abstract or theoretical. The teacher is doing all the work (TTT). The teacher isn't doing enough work (excessive amounts of student-centred work). The lesson is too easy or too difficult. The lesson has no clear aim. The lesson feels slow. The lesson focuses too much on one skill or language area. The students have been sitting still for too long. So we need to make sure they are motivated. Let’s consider motivation…
Explain distinctions: Extrinsic = associated with achieving goals and objectives. In the language classroom that may mean being m otivated by wanting to pass an exam or get a better job for example. The reason has nothing to do with the actual content of what you're learning. You try to do something for an external reward, but its very difficult to keep your attention on the long and difficult task of language learning if you have no intrinsic interest in it. Intrinsic = associated with satisfaction and enjoyment. Motivated by the satisfaction and enjoyment of learning - by the language and your progress in learning it, by the classroom activities, by the content of the texts. It's the kind of motivation that makes you pay attention to something for its own sake, even if there's no reward.
Satisfaction = You set out to achieve something, you achieve it effectively. You see your competence build over time and you know that it's YOU who's achieved it through your own efforts. Enjoyment = The classroom material and activities attract your attention like a magnet. Both kinds of intrinsic motivation are important, but this talk will focus on enjoyment.
What kinds of qualities do materials and activities need to have to be enjoyable? Here are some…We will go on to look at each of these in turn… Note: From here on, the talk is flexi-length depending on time available. If time is short, some of the examples given can be skipped over quickly or missed out altogether. But try to keep at least two for each of the 4 categories in slide 4 above. The examples in the curiosity section are a little less 'participatory' since there's more focus on the text than on the task that goes with it. The main section-head slides are indicated by bigger font size. The final, open bullet allows the presenter to acknowledge audience contributions which don't appear on the list. Depending on presenter's style and preferences, could include an elicit-from-the-audience stage before each of the bullet-point section slides.
What kind of things can you discover about a person and their recent activities by looking in their handbag? That's what students are doing with this picture, they're playing Sherlock Holmes and deducing Ana's recent activities - which is always an intriguing activity
We try to arouse curiosity to encourage people to read on… Click to reveal 1 st photo – who’s this? See if anyone recognises Javier Bardem. Click to reveal 2 nd picture. Has anyone seen this film? How old do you think the actor is? What things do you think were changed to make him look old? Get ppts to talk to their partner and then reveal the answers. How many did you get? Now elicit what grammatical point they should encourage ss to notice in this text.
Just show the title. If you look at the 'most read' list of on-line newspapers, you will often find this kind of human interest story, in this case a bungled crime. Clearly, such stories capture most people's attention. Organise the ppts into 2 teams, or get two teams to come to the front. They have to take it in turns to guess the next word. Scoring: 3 points for the exact word 2 points for a similar word 1 point for the correct word type and possible answer. Click to reveal the first part of the story. Elicit 1 agreed answer from the first team. Perhaps nominate 1 person to keep score.
Read out the next part and then elicit 1 agreed word from the other team. Score keeper keeps score.
The story ends with Ms Robinson asking the customer to wait while she called ‘the manager’ and then the police arrived. This activity is fun for the ss and keeps their interest. It also makes them think about the grammar of words and collocations. You need to think carefully about which word to stop before, so that it is possible to guess.
Ok, can you do this? Show or tell the person sitting next to you… (Show the pictures one by one. For the second one, ask 'Can you write with both hands - your right and your left?. For some of the pictures, the appropriate question is 'Can you read this?) People like to talk about what they can do, and it's a perfect vehicle for getting across the concept of can and can't. And the task involves a little movement, which is good for a kinaesthetic learning style. (elem p70 Can you do this? Not the whole page, but just the following pictures one by one, without the numbers:a. 1b. 2c. 3d. 4e. 6f. 9g. 11h. 12)
Ok, can you do this? Show or tell the person sitting next to you… (Show the pictures one by one. For the second one, ask 'Can you write with both hands - your right and your left?. For some of the pictures, the appropriate question is 'Can you read this?) People like to talk about what they can do, and it's a perfect vehicle for getting across the concept of can and can't. And the task involves a little movement, which is good for a kinaesthetic learning style. (elem p70 Can you do this? Not the whole page, but just the following pictures one by one, without the numbers:a. 1b. 2c. 3d. 4e. 6f. 9g. 11h. 12)
And finally – challenge. We need to ensure that the ss are mentally challenged. Although their English may be of a low level, we need to provide opportunities for them to share what they know about other subjects and to be challenged in other ways – not just linguistically.
Show this slide for ppts to compare with who they had thought of. Play the audio: (Elem SB 10D4) – ppts listen and guess who it is. There are 4. Depending on time, you can play as many or as few as you wish. Answers: 1. Martin Luther King 2. Marie Curie 3. Mother Teresa 4. Aung San Suu Kyi
Remind participants what the talk has been about. For successful learning to take place learners need to be motivated. Extrinsic motivation in the form of success orientation and assessment is important...
C ombining this with curiosity, entertainment, personalisation and challenge to foster the learners' intrinsic motivation will bring even greater results.