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Ch. 7 Outliers: The Story of Success
Quote: “Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country’s cultural legacy.” I picked this quote because I have experience dealing with strict cultural legacy, while I was in Korea. Question: For students who come from cultures where roles are highly dictated by age and respect, how can we teach students to speak their mind clearly? Connection: I have spent a significant time in Korea, age and social standing has a huge impact on how people socialize together. From this story it shows how these social norms can be damaging when people need to work as a team as with the pilot and copilot. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was finding how detrimental it is to effectively communicate. This situation where lives are put on the line and inferior employees can’t communicate their emotions and thoughts effectively. Ch. 8 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “We should be able to predict which countries are best at math simply by looking at which national cultures place the highest emphasis on effort and hard work.” (248) I picked the quote because I feel it hold great importance upon our nation and the effort we are willing to go through in order to learn. Question: How can we encourage and motivate students to develop the highest emphasis on hard work and effort? Connection: While in Korea, I have witness the hard work and effort that many of the citizens of the country go through in order to have a better life. I have witness how much they focus on school and what types of after school programs they go through. Many students spend up to 12 hours a day in a learning environment. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was realizing where the stereo type comes from with regards to Asian countries being better at math. From what the author says is that students are willing to work harder than most other countries. That willingness is what makes it easier for them to learn more efficiently. Ch. 9 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.” (267) This quote does a beautiful job a not just summarizing the chapter but also the entire book. Question: What can we do for students to give them the presence of mind to seize the opportunities set in front of them? Connection: A connection I made in this chapter is seeing the work that some young people are putting in to better their lives. Watching Martha work hard and understand the importance of education to better her life. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was reading about how during the school year students who have a lower socioeconomic status learn just as much if not more than more privilege students. For students who are more poor don’t have any learning gains during the summer. I hate to say this, but it looks like long summer breaks need to go away.:( Ch. 4 Outliers: The Story of Success
Quote: “Practical intelligence…It is procedural: it is about knowing how to do something without necessarily knowing why you know it or being able to explain it.” (100) I picked this quote because it refers to my previous post. I refer this “practical intelligence” as street smarts. This type is smarts is important for people to survive and achieve the most they can out of life. Question: How can we add practical intelligence to our curriculum to aid in student’s life knowledge? Connection: A connection I make in this chapter is when a wealthier child is at the doctors his and mother wants him to insert himself into the conversation about his health. I find this important for children to do. So often I hear parents answering questions for their kids. Whenever my mother is around my children she speaks for them and answers the question that I ask them. I have to tell her, “Let them answer for themselves.” Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was reading about how important it is to teach my children to speak up and to raise them in an environment that would allow them to learn to question life. Ch. 5 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “But as is so often the case outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.” (123) I picked this quote because it shows the importance of how so many outliers have taken their setbacks and turned them around to make them an experience that will make them better. Question: How can I show students that all experience can be turn positive and that we must learn from the past mistakes? Connection: With families positive support the future generations can benefit from what their parents are doing. Many of my students have travel to our country as immigrants and have parents who are working extremely hard to make a better life for their children. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was seeing how these specific lawyers were made. These lawyers from this chapter come from family who had nothing and were able to their trades from native country to make lives for their children. Ch. 6 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished….”(173) I pick this quote because it shows the importance behaviors good or bad can be passed down with cultural. Question: How are these behaviors passed down from generation to generation, and how do we fix them? Connection: As a teacher I have so often seen kids react almost unconsciously to insults and typically with violence. To now know that this might not be a conscious decision but behavior traits that have been passed down from generation upon generations. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment is now knowing that I must implement social behavior modification training to my students to insure that they are learning the appropriate way to react to negative situations. Ch. 1 Outliers: The Story of Success
Quote: “The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other threes blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured.”(pg. 19) I think this quote shows just because a person is born from a family that is successful doesn’t mean that they too will become the same. There are so many obstacle that this person will face in life. Also in our world a child born from a weaker shell can still become something great as long as they have sun light and room to grow. Question: How as a teacher, can we aid to that smaller acorn growth? Connection: As educators we should aid to the development of all our “acorns”. We need to be aware that all of our students are different and might need a different way to experience learning. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment in this chapter was reading about how sports players who are at the other end of the age requirement often don’t achieve as high as the ones with an age closer to the start date. Ch. 2 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” (pg. 41) I picked this quote because it shows the importance of practice. With me being a PE teacher and a father with kids that play sports, this is important for kids to understand at a young age. Question: How can we aid students to understand the importance of practice in not just sports but in all aspects of the classroom? Connection: This is a connection to me personal because my oldest son plays baseball and he thinks that just because he likes it he will get to play professionally. Though, whenever I ask my son if he wants to practice he says no. He needs to learn the importance of practicing to get good. Epiphany/Aha: It takes 10,000 hours for someone to become an expert. That is a lot of time to practice, fail, and learn from experience. Ch. 3 Outliers: The Story of Success Quote: “If intelligence matters only up to a point, then past that point, other things- things that have nothing to do with intelligence- must start to matter more.” (pg. 86) This quote has me thinking of multiple intelligence. Yeah people are smart to certain point but they should check to see what kind of person they are. So for a college admission program students who are smart but selfish for instance, may never volunteer or belong to groups or teams, then maybe they aren’t the best fit for their school. Question: Why not have college admissions based on the population numbers of that specific community? Connection: This connection is made from students and people in general. How can we use one single test to assess how well a student will later succeed in life? We have learn so much in the credential program about multiple intelligence and how students and people can be smart in more than just one way. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment in this chapter was realizing that there is more to life than just being smart from a nationalized test. I think that’s our job as teachers to help students realize there is more to them then what they score on a test. Ch. 7 Knowing, Making, and Playing
Quote: “Nevertheless, play has been most often regarded as antithetical to the most stable pillars of the twentieth century. It is the opposite of work. It is fun, rather than serious. And its connection to learning is secondary or incidental.” (1357) I think this quote best describes this chapter because It talks about an important and emerging role that play has in the future of education. Question: What types of play can best aid in the student learning process? Connection: Play is one of the important features to physical education it helps student learn and apply past knowledge to their new skills. Epiphany/Aha: My Aha moment was reading about the play feature and how they don’t only apply to online gaming. It isn’t just the playing feature but the experimentation that goes along with it. Ch. 8 Hanging Out Messing Around, and Geeking Out. Quote: “Geeking out provides an experiential, embodied sense of learning within a rich social context of peer interaction, feedback, and knowledge construction enabled by a technological infrastructure that promotes ‘intense, autonomous, interest driven’ learning.” (1478) I picked this because I feel it explains the chapter well it embodies the importance of truly getting to the people you surround yourself with even if technology is the medium. Question: What is the best way to get to the Geeking out stage? Connection: During the credential program we have slowly be working our way towards the Geeking out stage. I feel that I am moving closer to the Geeking out stage. Epiphany/Aha: My “aha” moment was seeing these phrase and realizing that Jeff probably used this author phases to create some of his names for assignments. Ch. 9 The New Culture of Learning For A world of Constant Change Quote: “They combine the knowledge gained from outside the game with an evolving set of practices that occur inside the game, both of which fed each other.” (1550) This chapter talks a lot about gaming and how just as their world is always changing so is ours. Question: What is next for our ever changing world? Epiphany/Aha: While reading I had the “aha” moment when the book talks about when student are no longer learning the start to lose interest in what they are doing. When I read that section the first thing I thought was that the learned all they could but this can also apply to students who are having a difficult time learning something new. Connection: I have seen this happen at the elementary school level. When students have spent too much time on one area they become bored and start falling off task. Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. Lexington, KY: CreateSpace? |
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