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1.“Playing Small Does Not Serve the World.” Your Brain is Your Brand-Don’t Let It Be “the” Brand.
You must find yourself and work with it. Sure, everyone wants the name brands, like Nike, Holister, and Under Armour, but why? Who will remember the one wearing these clothes? Not me! Those who stand out and know who they are truly make an impact.
It’s easy “to go with the flow.” What good does this do? Who went with “the flow” and made a difference???
NOT.............. Albert Einstein
NOT.............. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOT.............. The Wright Brothers
NOT.............. Dorothea Dix
NOT.............. Bill Gates
Why accept what is normal? Is normal really normal, or is it just a weak attempt to feel worthy? Use your brain to think, not to imitate. Those who think make the real difference. Question what you don’t understand because sometimes those “teaching” don’t really understand. For example, do facts mean anything without understanding?
3. Nobody Cares if You walked up Hill Both Ways Barefoot in the Snow and Could Diagram a Sentence.
Why memorize when it is so easy to engage and get involved? While the past may be interesting it can’t be changed. My future can. It is evolving and constantly questioning where to go. I need help with my future, not a lesson from the past. My future impacts your future, can’t you see? Why teach us what you did, when we need to know what we can do?
4. Got Passion? If Not, I’ll Tell You What to Care About.
Everyone needs a passion. Only with a passion can a person improve the world. For example, we can thank the passionate people of the past for making a difference for us. The scientists and doctors who were passionate about healthcare made medical discoveries which allow us today to live longer and healthier lives. Also the passionate women (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth) who fought endlessly for women’s rights in America allow all American women to live in a world where men and women are constantly striving towards total equality. It is our job to be passionate in both our beliefs and actions so that we can improve the future world. We need to learn and be introduced to all different aspects of the world; only then will we be able to find our true passion. We must be educated so that we can pick a passion because the world needs our input.
5. My Memory Is Only As Big As my Heart: Otherwise, I’ll Stick with Google.
I could memorize your facts, but I got Google for that.
Facts are lifeless. I am alive so keep learning alive. Take me everywhere: Greece, Italy, Germany; show me where the first Olympics were held and where the atomic bomb killed so many people. Let me see the Mayan ruins and feel the Egyptian pyramids. Let me feel what a natural hot spring feels like. Let me smell the tropical flowers. What good does it do to simply know a fact, when you can feel, taste, see, smell, and truly experience that fact? I may remember a fact for the test, but an experience can stay with me for a lifetime.
6. Look It Up or Die
I know how to look up a word and find a definition, but do I understand? What if I don’t understand the definition because the word being defined is part of the definition? What to do next? Where are the answers that I will understand? Tell me where to search. Keep me up to date. What good does it do to teach me one way to solve a problem when there are numerous methods that solve the same problem? Show me all the ways; just because you like one way doesn’t mean I will understand it.
9. It Ain’t About the Technology. It’s About the Story.
Sure, technology is constantly expanding, but who cares? You need to know the story. What good does technology do if you don’t understand the story? You have to live in the story to understand it.
So you think you are tech-savvy because you have a cell phone and computer? I don’t think so. Only if you know the story can you truly use the technology. It is useless to have technology if you can’t connect to it and utilize it. To live in the story and stay up to date is the only way to keep technology alive. Technology can constantly grow, but I need to know the story to know what good it can do for me.
10. Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy with the Question.
This world is changing and changing fast. Keep your hat secure, it might fly off. Ask me a question and I’ll give you my best answer, but I’m sure it isn’t “correct.” Yesterday I would have told you that you use a cell phone to communicate with people, but today I would tell you that you can listen to music on your cell phone and search on the internet. I am sure this answer is still inadequate and not correct. Keep asking the questions, because the answers never are the same. Don’t be content with an answer because ultimately you will lose in the long run. Keep your mind thinking!
There buzz about women who have made a difference in technology, but I cannot find the link. Can you? Post it, and blog about it. Or give me a day or two and I’ll find it. Let me know if you get there first.
If you are inside the story, how would your story look? How do you leverage the tools?
To be in the story I must constantly be learning about the new technological discoveries. School provides me the opportunity to be in the story. English class is especially vital for my ability to be in the story. School allows me to be exposed to all different types of technology. This is fortunate for me because without being taught how to use all this new and modern technology I would not be in the story. To stay in the story learning is a vital aspect. I can not be content with my knowledge of technology and still be in the story. I have to be both willing and eager to learn about new discoveries and technological advances. Technology is constantly changing and to stay in the story I must be well informed of all this new technology. Granted, it is impossible for me to know and be exposed to all the technology that is available, but I must be taught how to use the new technology; learning how to use the technology is important, but understanding how it can help improve my life is necessary!
There are many tools available to me when I am in the story. All these tools allow me to stay in the story and add more chapters to my individual story. School is one important tool that allows me to gain understanding on how to use technology. This learning and understanding that school provides me with allows me to help improve my life. For example, school has taught me how to search and navigate the internet for information at the click of a mouse. It prevents me from needing to go to a library to research information. The internet also gives me the ability to gain information from all over the world. For example, if I want to find out the schedule of a school in Alaska I can just search and easily find it on the internet.(link to a school in Alaska below) Our English website is a perfect example of how the internet destroys the distance barrier and expands my learning capabilities. (link to our English website below)
I feel that my story consists of scaffolding, just like in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Once I learn how to use a new piece of technology, then I can learn yet another piece of technology. For instance, I first learned how to use basic computer programs, such as PowerPoint, Word, and Paint. From that basic understanding, I was able to learn how to use the internet. Then after I learned how to utilize the internet I learned how to blog. After learning how to blog, I now know how to hyperlink. This scaffolding is key to being in the story. My story is constantly growing and gaining new chapters; my story most definitely has no page limit!!
Some interesting websites that I found include:
(schedule of a school in Alaska)
http://www.aurorawaldorf.org/A5563E/document.nsf/_awsByCatWRForm/dac92e3917e05d5b882572350013c9a0?OpenDocument&id=03.05
(our English webpage)
http://www.salisbury21.org/blog/index.php/rj
I am still searcing for the top five women involved in technology, but here is one interesting chart concerning women in technology related careers.
(Table 1-Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in High-Tech and Life Sciences Companies, 2003)
http://www.ibrc.indiana.edu/ibr/2003/fall03/fall03_art1.html
“You must find yourself and work with it. Sure, everyone wants the name brands, like Nike, Holister, and Under Armour, but why? Who will remember the one wearing these clothes? Not me! Those who stand out and know who they are truly make an impact.
It’s easy “to go with the flow.” What good does this do? Who went with “the flow” and made a difference???
NOT.............. Albert Einstein
NOT.............. Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOT.............. The Wright Brothers
NOT.............. Dorothea Dix
NOT.............. Bill Gates”
I am all for finding yourself and working with what you has an individual can bring to the table. But with all of the clothing trends going on it hard to even find your own style. If you would look around you would see millions of named brand clothing, EVERYONE WEARS IT. Individuals today that stand out aren’t always the ones that make the impact. The one’s that blend it make it more often than those who are the sore thumb in the group. It’s a good point to point out those who didn’t go with the flow, but were they that different. Martin Luther King, Jr. words were heard, and made an impact, but how many other people had the same powerful views that just didn’t get heard? These individual were seemed as different because they spoke out, but I see it as they just spoke out and weren’t afraid of the criticisms. I’m glad someone spoke out like those individuals, because I know I wouldn’t just make a drastic change on my own. However, that doesn’t mean that I or people in the past or present haven’t thought of it, perhaps we are just too scared. http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/D/1951-1975/mlk/dream.htm
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