Friday, November 20, 2015

Toward Understanding Solitude and Leadership and Stop Googling



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  • Have both texts available, whether on your tablet or in your hand. 

  • Links here and here

  • If you're using the digital versions, remember the handy "find" feature available on your browser.

  • At your four-seater group, choose a recorder and a speaker.
  • Use paper to list the group's discoveries
  • These include:
  • Main ideas for each article
  • SHARED main ideas
  • the IMPLIED and IDENTIFIED heroes and villains from each author's point of view
  • Write down the sentence or sentences that support your observations, those that speak to you--or at least their location, so you can quote accurately
  • Prepare to say whether you agree, disagree or want to qualify the parts you agree with, while supporting your position with text you find convincing
      We'll decide together on an appropriate time for the small group activity, as well as good timing for a follow-up discussion of your findings and your views in a large group.

Lastly, you'll prepare a Tweet (140 characters) for @williamderesiewicz and @STurkle describing your position, this may be homework...






Sunday, November 8, 2015

Vocabulary challenge...

The following words from the "Stop Googling..." article by Sherry Turkle made up the word bank for two tasks, so far:

Stop Googling                                          Stop Googling II

algorithmic                                               essential
empathic                                                   antidote 
virtue                                                        psychology
resilient                                                    solitude
intimacy                                                   authentic 
intuition                                                   crucial
punitive                                                    virtue
domain                                                     spontaneous   
implicated                                                algorithmic  
periphery                                                 contingency
asserting                                                  vulnerable
sufficiently                                              virtuous
sacred
flourish
empathy
posture
capacity
partisanship

1. the two crossword puzzles
2. those you found on the document and underlined or highlighted

Watch this space for your next task with these words.