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Terry Elliott

How to Be Optimistic: 4 Steps Backed By Research | TIME - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 21 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • The 3 P’s It all comes down to what researchers call “explanatory style.” When bad things happen, what kind of story do you tell yourself? There are three important elements here. Let’s call them the 3 P’s: permanence, pervasiveness and whether it’s personal. Pessimists tell themselves that bad events: Will last a long time, or forever. (“I’ll never get this done.”) Are universal. (“You can’t trust any of those people.”) Are their own fault. (“I’m terrible at this.”) Optimists, well, they see it the exact opposite: Bad things are temporary. (“That happens occasionally but it’s no big deal.”) Bad things have a specific cause and aren’t universal. (“When the weatheris better that won’t be a problem.”) It’s not their fault. (“I’m good at this but today wasn’t my lucky day.”) Seligman explains: The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder. And when good things happen, the situation reverses: Pessimists think good things will be short-lived, are rare and random. Optimists think good things will last forever, are universal and of their own doing. What’s the ultimate result of this? Pessimists often quit. Life feels futile. And when life feels futile, you stop trying and frequently get depressed. So now we understand the kind of thinking that underlies these positions… but how do you go from one to the other? Research shows you should act like a crazy person… Okay, I’ll be more specific.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Fallow. - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • The field
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      "Field" is a construct, a word that gives us fake leverage.  If we call it one thing so that we can manipulate it, the handle on a skillet, the hook for hanging a coat up, It is not one thing. It is a desperate many things that live within one thing.  It is fox, not the hedgehog. via GIPHY
  • empty
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      I suppose at the subatomic level there is more empty than not. At the neuronal level, all of the neurons are firing and wiring and firing and wiring. At a farmer's level, the ground level, he knows that there is no container to be empty.  There is only the turning of Gaia on a tilted axis and the flow of root and branch, leaf and rhizome in a sweet slow dance, a timelapsing dervish. via GIPHY
  • intents and purposes
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      whose intents? whose purposes? via GIPHY
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  • close cropped
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      the aftermath: a definition aftermath (ˈɑːftəmaːθ, æ-)  Also aftermowth;  [after- 6 + math mowing.]  1.1 Second or later mowing; the crop of grass which springs up after the mowing in early summer. Also attrib. (See also aftergrass, aftercrop.)     1523 Fitzherbert Surveying 2 Yet hath the lorde the Edysshe and the aftermathe hym selfe for his owne catell.    1601 Holland Pliny (1634) I. 506 The grasse will be so high growne, that a man may cut it down and haue a plentiful after-math for hay.    1631 G. Markham Way to Wealth iii. ii. vi. (1668) 149 Eddish, or After-math-cheese.    1673 Marvell Rehears. Transp. ii. Wks. II. 251 The after-math seldom or neuer equals the first herbage.    1834 Southey Doctor cli. (1862) 391 No aftermath has the fragrance and the sweetness of the first crop.    1856 Patmore Angel in House (1866) ii. iv. iv, Among the bloomless aftermath.    1860 Farmer's Mag. LII. 242/1 Thus treated I would calculate on a good after⁓math, to be either sold or used in the yards. 2.2 fig. Esp. a state or condition left by a (usu. unpleasant) event, or some further occurrence arising from it.     a 1658 Cleveland To Mr. T. C. 22 Rash Lover speak what Pleasure hath Thy Spring in such an Aftermath!    1851 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marg. II. 13 The aftermath of the great rebellion.    1878 Masque of Poets 135, I am one that hath Lived long and gathered in Life's aftermath.    1946 W. S. Churchill Victory 5 The life and strength of Britain‥will be tested to the full, not only in the war but in the aftermath of war.    1958 M. L. King Stride toward Freedom vi. 102 The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, while the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.    1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 41, I remember, too, its aftermath-the triste, enervated feeling which the cold kiss of the dew spreads through one's whole body.    1979 A. Storr Art of Psychotherapy x. 107
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      The second cutting of hay is often the best.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      Aftermath BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW When the summer fields are mown, When the birds are fledged and flown,       And the dry leaves strew the path; With the falling of the snow, With the cawing of the crow, Once again the fields we mow       And gather in the aftermath. Not the sweet, new grass with flowers Is this harvesting of ours;       Not the upland clover bloom; But the rowen mixed with weeds, Tangled tufts from marsh and meads, Where the poppy drops its seeds       In the silence and the gloom.
  • I can do no more for now.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 15
       
      I can do no mow for now.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
      via GIPHY
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
      via GIPHY
  • fallow
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
      fallow wait idle linger malinger suspend abey follow shadow attend conform adhere abide support Avoid a void
  • stuff of life.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
      via GIPHY via GIPHY
  • Fallow.
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      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
  • filled to the brim with harvest.
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      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 15
       
Terry Elliott

Stuart Brown - Play, Spirit, and Character | On Being - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 23 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • come up with a philosophy of play
  • I believe in God the Playmate, Maker of every kind of place to play and every kind of playmate, both the visible and invisible.
  • I have to remind them again and again that we are only playing. They cannot fail. But somehow all the expectations to be good, to do it right get in the way of our natural
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  • social pressures and the fear of embarrassment most likely have something to do with it.
  • When I teach I aim to allow students, above all, a safe place to play. The nature of play is to come together with others and experience joy as we discover more about life and the world. What could be more spiritual?
  • Hello ~ As school children in the 1950s, we were sent out to play "on the noon hour" everyday no matter what the weather - and it snowed, rained and scorched. It was the best part of the day even though it was tough. I remember standing in Mary Catlin's coat to stay warm. I was very little and my fingers froze. Our teachers, Sisters of St. Joseph in full habit, put on shawls and skidded down long ice chutes with black robes flowing. We played every game - pom-pom-pullaway; red-rover-red rover; dodge ball; witch-steals-the-child. We monitored ourselves on the playground - some kids were 'mothers' to others. We played our hearts out, never looked back, loved each other and let everyone play.
  • Here is a poem I wrote about those days
  • role playing.
  • The ritual theorists perked up and remarked that play was considered the highest form of ritual.
  • Play has become my hermeneutic for both preaching, study, and in many ways life.
  • I would wager to say that while one can understand faith without being playful, one can not have it unless one understands the give and take, the unpredictable pitfall and grace that constitutes the fabric of play.
  • Play, i.e., making forts, running, twirling, skipping, and making up scenarious, even gathering at night to play "kick the can," dancing, being silly, all elicit joy, pleasure and inspire confidence and hope, both now and as a child.
  • I became a leader in InterPlay, where story, movement, sound and stillness are paths to spontaneity and play. New ideas and relationships, deep laughter ease and grace have been the gifts that have convinced me I MUST PLAY to stay healthy and happy.
  • interplay.org
  • play therapist
  • I think play is the ability to imagine things differently and not feel locked in. Play is the slack in life. The way that newness can most easlity come into life. That is why play is usually fun.
  • nvestigate how play has shaped the mammalian brain and more specifically how a lack of play in humans can lead to a loss of neuroplasticity which is associated with all kinds of psychopathologies.
  • "play" can not be understood as an activity but must be recognized as a mental or neurophysiological state. When approached from this direction it becomes apparent that play can exist in virtually any circumstance or any experience as long as there is an absence of fear or threat.
  • no doubt that play has been THE fundamental characteristic or quality that has given homo sapiens their ability to think creatively, imaginatively, etc.
  • Dutch thinker Johan Huizinga was correct in his labeling humans as Homo Ludens as opposed to Homo Sapien.
  • The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. —Exodus 32.6
  • Augustine said: “Better learn learn to dance, or the angels in heaven won’t know what to do with you!”
Sheri Edwards

The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 08 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • The scientist Stuart Kauffman has a suggestive name for the set of all those first-order combinations: "the adjacent possible." The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation. In the case of prebiotic chemistry, the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
  • The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven't visited yet. Once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn't have reached from your original starting point. Keep opening new doors and eventually you'll have built a palace.
onewheeljoe

If Thou Beest a Moon Calf…More Stories from My Dark Night of the #CCourse Soul | RhetCompNow - 0 views

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shared by onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • That’s what we want to do. Well…OK, that’s what I in my omniscient infinitude want to do. This is the problem of the connected classroom how can one give up the hiearchy, trusting that the course of things will be taken up in manifold ways and products?
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Self deprecating about your role in the classroom and also reflecting on the need to give up the hierarchy. Can you turn the hierarchy on its head regularly and routinely? 
  • And therein lay the rub: in response to the fear and confusion I sensed in my students I became Uncle “Hub Central”. Understanding how to summarize became an external act outside their own minds consisting of checklists, algorithms, and templates designed to connect the dots that I so faithlessly put on the page. But in the end I believe that summing up needs to be an internal algorithm that rises up as a personal exigency, a massing together of sets of neuronal allies, firing and wiring like a mosh pit of nodal “hands” holding up the crowd surfing madman named Summary.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Here you are tough on yourself again while the rock and the hard place remain exactly where you found them. In my view, Uncle Hub Central responded with support strategies (I'm shocked to discover your use of the word scaffold, Terry. :) How might you throw out the bathwater of hierarchy while tucking the baby of your support strategies under your arm? If the hierarchy disappeared, how might you leverage your support skill and instinct in a more networked, dynamic way?
  • Meaning making and perhaps internal connecting? A consummation devoutly to be wished.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      How might you insist on the meaning making and internal connecting? Above you showed how you insist on summary. 
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  • Best practice/worst practice. The problem with this variant of the post hoc fallacy is that we don’t really know if the strategies all arose as a ‘one off’ case, a sample of one, or as a truly generalizeable theory of action. Heraclitus (and his kissing cousin, Chaos Theory) argues that we really can’t step twice in the same river. In other words, initial conditions are always different from case to case in the dreaded ‘real world’. Those initial conditions almost always lead one astray from the desired results. Post hoc thinking is almost always wrong.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      The best practice/worst practice piece has tremendous power. It is at the core of your reflection and might be at the core of reform. Is this the theme I think it is? 
  • Perhaps I will discover the best case scenario for each of my classes. Perhaps not. Perhaps the success will come in the constant trumpeting of both “baby step” successes as well as “falling and hitting our heads on the coffee table, let’s go to the emergency room” failures. I just need to move my primary default mode from hub to node. They are more responsible for their own learning than I am. I share a duty to them, but the process is messy. We are all moon calves when it comes to learning. Moon calves.
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 14 Sep 14
       
      Your conclusion reads like a beginning to me. How is the hub kidding himself about his role and his impact? How is the node superior as a teacher and learner? 
onewheeljoe

Is It Time to Give Up on Computers in Schools? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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shared by onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • The sorts of hardware and software that were purchased had to meet those needs — the needs and the desire of the administration, not the needs and the desires of innovative educators, and certainly not the needs and desires of students.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And the needs of the IT -- not teachers and students
  • we must stare critically at the belief systems that are embedded in these tools.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      identity -- what identity must education take?
  • The mainframe never went away. And now, virtualized, we call it “the cloud.” Computers and mainframes and networks are a point of control. Computers are a tool of surveillance. Databases and data are how we are disciplined and punished. Quite to the contrary of Seymour’s hopes that computers will liberate learners, this will be how all of us will increasingly be monitored and managed.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I hope she suggests a solution. #clmooc would be leaders. How to share this perversion of possibilities.  The "adjacent possible" of the good became the priority instead of adjacent.
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  • The latter should give us pause
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I'm pausing. So many things reeling in my head: how can bad be the most powerful? people: identities unaccepted; control;  We're supposed to be civilized. But are we -- if this is what we do?
  • challenge it
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      When we challenge it, we will see HOW the data will be used against us as those controlling it will want to silence us, not find another way to work with people.
  • little thought about the Terms of Service,
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I do read the terms of service, and I know that Google wants me to share, so gives me my ownership. Yes, collecting data. Advertising.  So how do we as those sharing, work with Google, etc. to to make a better world? What is a "better world" ? Aren't there Google aspects reaching out to help identify environmental and social problems? Is everything here bad? I don't want it to be.
  • control over our access to knowledge.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      There it is control. What do you want them to do? What is the people's goal?
  • “Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.”
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      I remember. My brother made a keypunch card with "the finger" on it. 1970s  I wonder where I put that? His quiet push back.
  • you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 30 Jun 15
       
      And, again, where is the HOW? How do we push back? The optout movement has started, and the pushback on them is fierce; fierce to keep the testing going. What do "the people" do? This is the alarm. We have no firetruck. Give us some tools. Now. Please.
  • ISTE is the perfect place to question what the hell we’re doing in ed-tech in part because this has become a conference and an organization dominated by exhibitors. Ed-tech — in product and policy — is similarly dominated by brands. 60% of ISTE’s revenue comes from the conference exhibitors and corporate relations; touting itself as a membership organization, just 12% of its revenue comes from members. Take one step into that massive shit-show called the Expo Hall and it’s hard not to agree: “Yes, it is time to give up on computers in schools.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 30 Jun 15
       
      What are some ways we can evaluate the knowledgeable others who inform our practice, or the organizations that supply the tools we adopt in schools, to always understand the market motivations at work?
  • The stakes are high here in part because all this highlights Google’s thirst for data — our data. The stakes are high here because we have convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
    • onewheeljoe
      onewheeljoe on 03 Jul 15
       
      We've convinced ourselves that we can trust Google with its mission because to investigate the way Google might influence us by monopolizing search is beyond most people's ability or inclination to understand the inner workings of the Internet. 
Terry Elliott

touches of sense... - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 06 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Are we developing: "a practice that involves a break with the familiar, the routine ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding things so that the organism may become receptive to the potential forms of a nonaggressive, non-exploitative world." ?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Aug 15
       
      There's an app for that.
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