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Lisa Levinson

Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives - Brain Pickings - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Levinson on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Lisa Levinson on 26 Feb 16
     
    Maria Popova's blog, brainpickings, on Carol Dweck's work on mindset. Even in children, open or growth mindset is a key factor in learning, while fixed mindset is too focused on being perfect or the best or knowing all the answers. Growth mindset leads to curiosity, learning, exploration, and creativity. Fixed mindsets lead to the status quo and adhering to what exists. Growth mindset sees problems and challenges as growth and learning opportunities, fixed mindset views challenges as failure and underperforming. Great graphic of the 2 mindsets from Dweck's book.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A Rap on Race - Brain Pickings - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 25 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 25 Jul 16
     
    excellent five part series from Rap on Race in 1970 between James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, captured by Maria Popova, highly appropriate for our current time.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Adrienne Rich on Why an Education Is Something You Claim, Not Something You Get - Brain... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • One of the devastating weaknesses of university learning, of the store of knowledge and opinion that has been handed down through academic training, has been its almost total erasure of women’s experience and thought from the curriculum… What you can learn [in college] is how men have perceived and organized their experience, their history, their ideas of social relationships, good and evil, sickness and health, etc. When you read or hear about “great issues,” “major texts,” “the mainstream of Western thought,” you are hearing about what men, above all white men, in their male subjectivity, have decided is important. And yet Rich is careful to counter any misperception that taking
  • Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
  • Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions
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  • The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.
  • Too often, all of us fail to teach the most important thing, which is that clear thinking, active discussion, and excellent writing are all necessary for intellectual freedom, and that these require hard work.
  • passive recipiency”
  • The contract on the student’s part involves that you demand to be taken seriously so that you can also go on taking yourself seriously.
  • The contract is really a pledge of mutual seriousness about women, about language, ideas, method, and values. It is our shared commitment toward a world in which the inborn potentialities of so many women’s minds will no longer be wasted, raveled-away, paralyzed, or denied.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Aug 17
     
    taking responsibility for your own learning
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Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 08 May 12
     
    Brain Pickings, blog by Maria Popova, master curator, March 9, 2012 Extremely interesting blog on discovering information on the internet and sharing it with others.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Introducing The Curator's Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 17 Jan 14
     
    Maria Popova, a curator's code for showing how you obtained your mindblowing ideas. Two unicode symbols and a bookmarklet that you download allows you to show how others have assisted you. "The Curator's Code is an effort to keep this whimsical rabbit hole open by honoring discovery through an actionable code of ethics - first, understanding why attribution matters, and then, implementing it across the web in a codified common standard, doing for attribution of discovery what Creative Commons has done for image attribution. It's a suggested system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, celebrating authors and creators, and also respecting those who discover and amplify their work."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters | Brain... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Oct 14
     
    Popova identified the Benjamin Franklin effect in her blog (follows excerpt below in her blog post). The excerpt below reminds of why networks are helpful. "At age twenty-one, he formed a "club of mutual improvement" called the Junto. It was a grand scheme to gobble up knowledge. He invited working-class polymaths like him to have the chance to pool together their books and trade thoughts and knowledge of the world on a regular basis. They wrote and recited essays, held debates, and devised ways to acquire currency. Franklin used the Junto as a private consulting firm, a think tank, and he bounced ideas off the other members so he could write and print better pamphlets. Franklin eventually founded the first subscription library in America, writing that it would make "the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries," not to mention give him access to whatever books he wanted to buy."
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