What is backward design?102,874 views102K views•Aug 25, 2013 141 11 Share Save 141 / 11 Kristine Kershaw Kristine Kershaw 87 subscribers
This is such a simplified version of this concept. And in two minutes and thirty seconds, this is an incredible, short, and sweet version of the theory that some teachers have yet to see. This video reminds me exactly of why we have standards- not to make our lives difficult, but how we should be guiding our teaching and learning expectations.
This may be true
This article stretches the concept of a fact check as I know it. I would expect a fact checker to be interested whether the claim is true and consult relevant experts on the matter.
This may be a nice blog post, I am not an expert, but for me this is not a fact check and it almost reminds one of the Monty Python sketch were someone is looking for an argument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
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While I do not disagree with the premises proffered here in the broad context what I found interesting is that the TED Talk was a critique of being formulaic, not an issued approval. Basic human capacities for information gathering and then processing from the phenomenological sense could be narrated descriptively to be very similar or dissimilar. In the hands of a skilled narrative creator the affective aspect allows the medium including text rhythm, data inclusion or exclusion, and performance skills to all massage through the medium of delivery. I am borrowing from McLuhan but what is important here is to understand the cognitive process not as one to be manipulated through narrative archetype but its commonality to our humanity. Aristotle in the Politic describes human kinds nature as being innately political, community oriented. Hannah Arendt discusses quite heavily the transient nature of truths from the vantage point of the body politic. Bakhtin discusses the concept of the novelist, epic poetic creator, or story teller reflecting the many voices swirling around them as they start to create. What is important for me is that these are common items that transcend technologies for dissemination. Are we more concerned with the latest items and tying into our past or understanding that it is the interplay between formula and fresh creativity that propels human kind into broader awareness of themselves. First American Nations have vastly different narrative pacing and thematic materials from their Afro-Eurasian counterparts. The narrative of Sky Woman might be the same or it can be viewed as dissimilar. From my vantage point this all depends as to who the analyst might be and what time period they live in. Are we not reflections of the time we walk under the sky.
As a post script to the longer part above, Vonnegut reminds one that creative output is a dance between formulaic and new pathways for expression. Regardless as to Vonnegut's propensity for tongue-in-check absurdity, his satirical approach issues a challenge to being overly formulaic.
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Extremely interesting story. I'm pleased to see it have a happy ending considering this was Shakespeare's final play. The story surely reminds me of the romantic comedy films seen from the last couple decades, as well as fantastical Disney storytelling. The directions and dialogue were mush easier to understand in this play and lines flowed naturally.
Gram Sullivan was the only nonwhite wife in that society. She didn’t participate in any of it, Mom said. She had no friends. When her husband and children went to the wakes and parties and dances and feasts. Gram stayed home alone.
Reminds me of my dad.
I have received numerous texts and emails from white friends recently — checking in, asking whether I’m okay. I appreciate the concern, and I want everyone to know I’m fine. Well, I’m as fine as I’ve been since 1982. That’s when, after my family moved to a new neighborhood in Chicago, a group of white kids tried to blow up our car by sticking a rag in the gas tank and lighting it on fire.
This reminds me of the ending of Invisible Man and I Am Not Your Negro.
He woke, instantly and quietly, like a dog
Sergeant Cuff's character reminds me of a blood hound sniffing out the clues.
wet nurses;
The place of the wet nurse, and the further banning of the role in Prussian law of 1794 reminds me of a cyborgian external feature. When thinking about the ideas of "goddess" vs "cyborg" as discussed by Haraway, this law is an enforcement of an idea of "natural womenhood," where the breast plays the role of the goddess, and the wet nurse acts as a technological advancement, making the woman a cyborg. This goes against the "natural order" that keeps women in a subsidiary place in society. This also makes me consider the question, are humans machines? and what makes a human, human, and a machine, a machine? When considering the fact that externalizing human processes to other humans sometimes allows for the solving of a problem, or the expediting of a process, then there seems to be a robotic element within two human components.
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Haha！Spliting perception appears right here. I think this is a pre-modern consideration and it resembles to simple programmed binary calculated robots that can only operate orders and hard to possess their own ideas. But in the future as humans proceed into post-modernism thinking, they don't consider extreme ideas of matter. Instead, they conceive matters as nihilistic objects and expand on them with infinite imaginations and reasoning. This is how colleges prompt to cultivate us. If robots transform into post-modernists, it will really cool for them, but hard for them to accept since they are born with missions and do righteous targets. This reminds me of Mr. Meeseeks in Rick and Morty. If they accomplish they goal, they will end themselves, but to achieve that they can be unscrupulous and cause riots in order to accomplish their missions. Kind of like "Ultron" in Avengers 2, and their intentions might completely digress from what their inventors intend to operate.
Perhaps having self-concepts and measurements will unleash their inhibited independent thinking and induce rebellions:)
RALPH. Why, Robin, what book is that? ROBIN. What book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring that e’er was invented by any brimstone devil.
Again, I love the dialogue in this story. It reminds me of Monty Python.
waxen wings
this alliteration creates a flow that feeds into itself further creating imagery that further depicts images of angels. The Waxen wings create a false sense of reality and reminds me of the wax figures that imitate real life in a way to impress others. With the wax sheen creating a false sense of shiny realness that others can perceive as real, it masquerades the false sense of security that often others see as reality only because they want to see it as so.
And necromantic books are heavenly;
Faustus reminds me a bit of Dr. Frankenstein. Although Mary Shelly wrote it in 1818, necromancy was seen as playing with the unnatural side of life and flying too close to the sun as well.
Come, I think hell’s a fable.
Reminds me of the hubris main characters often have in older famous texts. He is mocking the existence of hell, as he promises his soul to the devil. He thinks himself above it in a way?
that the word was a poetic coinage; i.e., a word that was intelligible, but not in common usage
this reminds me of the way Shakespeare used words that were not of popular usage back that but became words because of his poetic coinage.
The similarity to what we found in the will of Theophrastus is noticeable. There is prominent mention of a Museum and a peripatos. The large hall for dining (τὸ συσσίτιον) also had a counterpart in a building mentioned in the will of one of the later Peripatetic scholarchs, Strato, who also wrote of a dining hall (τὸ συσσίτιον, Diog. Laert. 5.62).
Reminds me of the point of comparison prompt we get in our discussion boards. The point of comparison was showing that the building that was created was similar to the building in the will. Which shows a connection to Aristotle.
and again, two stone griffon figures found in Patna and probably belonging to a throne of the Mauryan royal palace, which was also probably derived directly from the Achaemenid influenc
Reminds me of the griffons mentioned in the discussion board for Scythians
andragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda dynasty, and founded a vast new empire
It's interesting to see that even over here, Chandragupta is not called an emperor. Reminds me of a previous reading we had in one of the units in which he was called a mere adventurer
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This reminds me of Snow Crash. In that story, people's all sorts of private information, including face print and foot print, are collected by the government and corporations. In the case of Japanese sex industry, the situation is even worse, since the website even demonstrates the current state of its employees' genitalia. I think this shows that Japanese industry doesn't respect its employees' privacy much.
How that all creatures be to me unkind, Living without dread in worldly prosperity: Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God; In worldly riches is all their mind,
God saying this reminds me of the story of Noah that is in the Bible. God decided to end humankind by sending a lot of water that caused people to drown to death. God wanted to end humankind because he thought there was a lot of sin in the world.
Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet, Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep,
What I understand from these two lines is when you first start doing something bad you find it enjoyable and like what you are doing, but in the end it just causes you a lot of problems. This also reminds me of lying. Saying a little lie will keep growing to be a big lie, which is going to cost more pain in the end when people find out about the lies that you have said.
Everyman living without fear.
I am not sure if this line is metaphoric or has a direct meaning. If this has a direct meaning, then this reminds me of American philosophy, like land of the free. I am also not sure who "everyman" is referred to as throughout this story.
Both Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty, Will fade from thee as flower in May.
Interesting quote and additionally a simile. These three earthly indulgences are still extremely relevant and reminds me of the addictions/hobbies my peers fall into. Scrolling through Instagram recommended I consistently see workout videos, makeup tutorials, and of over sexualized music videos (strength, beauty, and pleasure). I guess not much has changed.
In short, once someone is labeled a Nazi on the internet, that person stays a Nazi on the internet.
This reminds me of the power of social media. It's like once you got tagged or defined into a group, it's close to the point where you can never go back. E.g. Once you are labeled as Nazi, you are Nazi for the rest of your life.
There’s another unfortunate dimension to this whole saga that mimics the coercive effect of public marriage proposals: everyone innocently cheers on the romance because it tells a good story, but it places the woman in the invidious position of being the “bad guy” if she says no.
It reminds me of watching a video of public marriage proposal on Facebook. Most comments I noticed was talking bad about the lady because she said no to the guy. But first, I wonder why do these strangers think they can make a decision for this lady or anyone they don't even know already?
the nature of Judaeo-Christian experience that we have had great diffi- culty recognizing as at all religious any belief or practice that departs very far from our Judaeo-Christian norm. Defining a religion in terms of personal belief is an idea that we have imposed on a culture to which it is alien
I like this passage cause it reminds me that I am viewing the cult culture through my Catholic goggles for lack of a better terminology. To try to make sense of or relate to ruler/dynastic cults with my own religious baggage will only confuse or stunt my understanding of what it actually was and what it meant
At night, when I cried, Mama came to me and weighed me down with her torso until calmness filled me. “Come back to me, my mouse,” she’d say.
I relate to this because it reminds me of when I was a little boy. Whenever I had bad nightmares or if I had a bad cramp in the middle of the night my mom would come to me and make sure I was okay.
this reminds me of Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter.
The more difficult question concerns whether scoring systems’ source code, algorithmic predictions, and modeling should be transparent to affected individuals and ultimately the public at large. Neil Richards and Jonathan King astutely explain that “there are legitimate arguments for some level of big data secrecy,” including concerns “connected to highly sensitive intellectual property and national security assets.”146 But these concerns are more than outweighed by the threats to human dignity posed by pervasive, secret, and automated scoring systems
while this article treats credit scores predicted by algorithms, the effect of the secret scoring systems on jobs, housing, and opportunities are widespread and often unable to be challenged...reminds me of what happens with too much faith in ai surveillance without due process for those affected
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reminds me of Hephaestus
Predynastic Period (4000-3100), the Nile River played a central role in Egyptian funerary customs, as it was the conduit for the journey undertaken by the deceased in the afterlife. The river, which separated the country into two, marked the metaphorical boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The funeral procession involved a journey over the Nile or one of its branches and this journey was often represented through offerings and im
a procession for the dead, reminds me of todays customs for funerals.
ians that the Nephest would have required protection and nourishment in order to ensure its su
reminds me of good deeds in life bring you to heaven
One need arose quite commonly as trains of thought would develop on a growing series of note cards. There was no convenient way to link these cards together so that the train of thought could later be recalled by extracting the ordered series of notecards. An associative-trail scheme similar to that out lined by Bush for his Memex could conceivably be implemented with these cards to meet this need and add a valuable new symbol-structuring process to the system.
This reminds me of of how the Roam Research app has implemented bidirectional links and block references.
The Devil found him in such wicked state,
This reminds me of the story of Adam and Eve. The serpent which was symbolizing the devil pressured Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. The forbidden fruit in this story is poisoning the other two men so he could get the treasure to himself.
and eventually waste away and die never having taken either path.
Reminds me of Burdian's Ass. As explained at Wikipedia:
"Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein a donkey that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water. A common variant of the paradox substitutes two identical piles of hay for the hay and water; the ass, unable to choose between the two, dies of hunger."
The exchange usually verges on the opponents’ shortcomings in central spheres of human experience such as sexuality, kinship and martial qualities.
The "senna/ur" may be timeless. It reminds me of the similar contemporary practice called "dirty dozen" that appears in the good-spirited but sometimes downright mean oneupsmanship usually found in African-American male bonding. A classic example of an exchange is, "Your lady is so ugly she has to sneak up on a glass of water to get a drink!" followed by the other party saying, "You're so ugly your daddy must have beat you with an ugly stick!", etc., found, among other places, in Bo Diddley's "Say, Man!" album from 1959.
and his loins and his limbs so long and so great half giant on earth I think now that he was
This section reminds me of the Giants that are mention in the first chapter of the old testament in the Bible.
building in ways students can be co-teachers as well as co-learners,
This reminds me of what we're calling cluster pedagogy at PSU. It also reminds me of what Paul Hanstedt refers to as encouraging student "authority" in Creating Wicked Students.
great gaunt gut
You just gotta love "great gaunt gut." That alliterative chugging reminds me of the sound trains make when they hit the track. It also feels unabashedly-poem-y. As if McKay is saying, 'this is going to be over-the-top, and you are going to like it.'
Carry her this, my golden ring. Tell her, on my part, that so she pleases she shall come to me, or, if it be her better pleasure, I will go to her.”
This reminds me of the story in the Bible where Abraham sends a servant to find a wife for his son. Abraham sends a lot of gifts for the person who agrees to marry his son including a gold ring.
which of them was his friend.
Their use of friend reminds me of the German Language, where the word for girlfriend/boyfriend is the same word used for a friend. It depends on what context you are using this word to determine wether your relationship to this person is platonic or romantic. They knights know Launfal is in love and I wonder if this is how they are using this term, "friend," in Old english.
Strategies being deployed by the research community to combat COVID-19 give us a proof of concept for what is possible.
These strategies will also open up the possibility of other situations because no one expected us to go into a few month long pandemic that is still going on. Having strategies to combat pandemics but even war which is something the US dipped their feet into are possible situations that the government and the people need to be prepared for. One situation that is a little bit over the top but reminds me of these strategies are the nuclear bomb drills that students in the US conducted in the wake of a bombing on US soil during the Cold War. Hiding under desks will not help fight the pandemic but it is the idea of being prepared.
For instance, the convergence of media through technology has facilitated this haze through the development of concepts such as “docudramas,” “edutainment,” and “infotainment,” which have gained popularity over the years (Thussu 2008). Mohammed (2012) proposed that with the extensive diffusion of information facilitated by advances in communication technologies, people often struggle to tell the difference between facts and opinion, entertainment, and outright disinformation. As a result, online stories can be perceived as either fictional or factual; with the consequence that fictional content may be processed and
I think this is getting harder for even adults. In an earlier annotation I said it was easier for adults than kids, but I have recently connected with adults who get lost in the "haze" that this article describes. Reminds me why I go to certain media outlets for different needs. If one has proved dishonest when the information was to be factual, I don't go back to that outlet. I guess my point is to stay informed (constant questioning) and know why you're going to a certain outlet. I can't imagine how hard it is for kids today if I know so many adults who struggle...
"The powerful attraction of social media in classrooms can help students connect who they are in and out of school among peers and with their teachers."
This reminds me of Stephen Krashen's idea that anxiety is the student's arch enemy and how we need to create an environment where students feel comfortable and relaxed. Students are very comfortable with social media and constantly posting on it. This will create a space where they are less anxious about writing and expressing themselves.
Students don't fit into boxes, but it's the nature of our system to try and fit them into certain definitions or boxes.
This is very true and something that should be brought up more often. It reminds me of the cartoon in which an elephant, penguin, seal, monkey, dog, bird and goldfish are lined up in front of a tree and the caption reads, “For a fair selection everybody has to take the same exam: please climb that tree.” The monkey smiles. The rest look concerned. Sir Ken Robinson gave a great Ted talk "Changing Education Paradigms" (11 min) where he discusses how the education system, in general, tries to fit kids into boxes they don't fit into and it often kills creativity and stunts growth. It's an important conversation.
Many environmental challenges are exacerbated within the urban landscape, such as stormwater runoff and flood risk, chemical and particulate pollution of urban air, soil and water, the urban heat island, and summer heat waves.
reminds me of seeing pics of urban flooding solutions in Japan. I think its really interesting to see how people tackle the issue of flooding in urban areas https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/climate/tokyo-floods.html
Always, my mother’s two wishes were: (1), to never marry a farmer, and (2), to move to the city suburbs, both of which she accomplished.
This resonates with me, reminds me of my mom's comments to my sister and I.
health literacy can becategorized into different levels that progressively reflectgreater autonomy and personal empowerment in decision-making
a thought not necessarily related to this passage - asset model is treating people's (a community's, perhaps) existing literacy as a tool to further increase literacy. it reminds me of naturopathic medicine, which leverages the body's pre-existing ability to heal itself, as opposed to an over-reliance on pharmaceuticals which mostly mitigate symptoms
It was a very interesting TED. Like he said, he didn't actually give us any data, but the way he set it up told the whole story. It is a formula for presenting a story, it reminds me of how I teach my middle schooler how to draft her paper for school. First you have the intro, tell them what you're going to tell them. Next is the body, you tell them. Then the closing, tell them what you told them. A basic formula to keep your ideas organized and the proper flow.
the language acquisition itself is not their objective. Rather, it is a by-product of the achievement of some other purpose,
This part reminds me of some of our discussions regarding intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. I think language acquisition is probably most successful if students see a larger purpose to what they are doing and are motivated to engage in the learning as a result. For example, they need the language in the near future to enroll in college or succeed in a career. Or, on a more immediate level, they need to know how to order something at a restaurant or how to ask where the bathroom is. In communities where you can get by with your native language and never learn English to go about your daily life, people may not speak English well because they don't have to. When you are immersed in a community where you must communicate in the target language to get what you want, acquisition is probably more likely.
While a train makes it easier for me to quickly go from one place to another, it makes it more difficult for me to stop along the way and chat with the people I pass.
This statement reminds me of when my husband and I went to Seattle. We conscientiously decided not to use any public transportation (besides to/from the airport). We stayed in a beautiful neighborhood just north of the city, filled with winding sidewalks and old staircases. We walked by hidden coffee shops and weathered pubs! So many of our stops were ones we happened upon by walking! The people we met in those places, we would have never connected with had we been going to the spots with the best Yelp reviews!
We cannot model perfection or show only one side of our professional selves and expect students to be comfortable being themselves with us.
This reminds me of how I had small-group conversations with students that I would never have had otherwise, and we got to talking about what worked and what didn't and I explained the reasoning behind class design more than I would have otherwise. I think we were a little more relaxed and open than we would have been if we were meeting in person. Many students said that they tuned out teachers talking to a class via zoom--they were not real and present enough, so with that in mind, I think it's interesting that we achieved an intimacy we wouldn't have in person, when we all interacted in a small group (3-4 of us). So this is a kind of literacy: reading when/how we connect at varying levels of relaxation and intimacy and when/how they enhance learning/communication and when they don't.
Openness
So much of the ethos of this article reminds me of Parker Palmer's 1983 text "To Know as We are Known" particularly his notion of the three essential components of a learning space- openness, boundaries, and an air of hospitality.
In the field of economics., too, Bactria has been singled out as a vest case for the entire HeUenistic Age.
I recall in Adams' reading that Bactria was a small-scale model for the great Hellenistic monarchies.. this reminds me of that. Informative.
Firstly, it is (perhaps wilfully) ignorant of the long history
This willful ignorance, to resist knowing or caring about the historical context, reminds me of the importance placed on listening in Kenneth Burkes's "Unending Conversation" parlor metaphor: " You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar."
for a quick little video of this foundational concept/metaphor for joining conversations within an academic discourse, check out https://youtu.be/faaQuZQkRZQ
If you can’t joke about bad things, there is no need for humor because sometimes all you can do in a bad situation is laugh
reminds me of a recent podcast episode I listened to. was it liz gilbert on tim ferriss? yeah I think so. the part where she talked about rayya's death, and dying
It will be well for him who seeks the favor, the comfort from our father in heaven, where a fortress stands for us all.
This reminds me of the chapter Middle Ages. Christianity was adopted in the Roman Empire and many of the works referenced looking to God in times of chaos. This poem is no exception, but instead of shaming the English people into praying, God is shown as a form of comfort.
the Measurer’s
This is capitalized in a way that reminds me of people capitalizing God, so I'm pretty sure this is a name for God. I've never heard "the Measurer" before. What is God measuring? Where did this title come from?
Anyway! Your only responsibility is to do stuff that’s actually in Japanese; the remainder of the responsibility rests entirely with the Japanese stuff — media — itself. The media has a responsibility to entertain you. You don’t have to find the value in it; it has to demonstrate its value to you by being so much fun that you don’t notice time going by — by sucking you in. It has to make you wish that eating and sleep and bodily hygiene could take care of themselves because they cut into your media time. And if it doesn’t do that or it stops doing that, then you “fire” it by changing to something else. You are the boss and there are no labor laws. Fire the mother. You do the work of setting up and showing up to the environment, but after that the environment must work for you.
This strategy reminds me of Niklas Luhmann who allegedly said that he never did anything that he didn't feel like doing.
This is like following your curiosity 100% and it goes against a lot of the other advice out there e.g. like sitting down every day and writing.
This also reminds me of this idea of starting as many books as possible. Drop them when they're no longer interesting to you.
DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT turn Japanese into work. Don’t turn it into “study”; don’t turn it into 勉強 (a word that refers to scholastic study in Japanese, but actually carries the rather negative meaning of “coercion” in Chinese). Just play at it. PLAY. That’s why I keep telling people: don’t make all these rules about what is and is not OK for you to do in Japanese, or how Gokusen is over-coloured by the argot of juvenile delinquents or watching Love Hina will make you talk like a girl — it doesn’t matter, you need to learn all that vocabulary in order to truly be proficient in Japanese anyway, so whatever you watch is fine — as long as you’re enjoying it right now. Write this on your liver: just because anything is OK to watch in Japanese, that doesn’t mean that everything is worth watching…to you that is. One person’s Star Trek is another person’s…well, I can’t imagine how any human being could fail to love Star Trek, but you get the idea.
If you want to learn something, make sure that you keep it in the realm of play. If you make it work, you will kill it.
This reminds me of Mark Sisson talking about incorporating play.
This also reminds me of the concept of Flow.
pathways of bugs and worms, the irresistible gleams of shining treasures lyin
My younger daughter- since she could walk on her own- has ALWAYS wanted to stop and smell every flower. She's almost 5 now and still does this...it reminds me to check myself and slow down. There is very little that cannot wait so you can stop to smell a flower! ha.
tall buckets beyond the children's reach
This reminds me of a recent event in my home, where my children want to get a drink of water by themselves, but the cups are stored up high. How simple to just MOVE the cups to a lower cabinet!
Take a picture of my finger next:
This reminds me to have the back ground knowledge of children's development.
Cleary lets readers see how much Ramona depends on her cat mask to brace herself for this mo-ment
This reminds me of the book Nana in thee City where the boy used the red cape to feel brave
amona learns to read and write words like pol-lution and hazardous by including them in messages to her father
This shows Ramona grasping the power of words. It reminds me of the book The Boy Who Loves Words
For the first time in her life, Ramona learns a lesson that her family has not succeeded in communicating: Her own very personal desires cannot be expressed freely or with impunity
This reminds me of the saying sometimes you have to hear it from someone that you don't know to understand its meaning.
Ramona adapts to the social norms of the educational community, she must internalize the external restrictions on her behavior or suffer the consequences of remaining at odds with the system.
This is very true every person must learn to adapt to the social norms and it reminds me of John Locke's theory of Rational moral
Most people think you build the product then you market it. Thinking in loops means you build the marketing into the product. The product doesn't precede the marketing. The product is the marketing.
By thinking in loops Harry Dry refers to a way of thinking about your acquisition strategy as being part of your product.
This reminds me of Brian Balfour's idea of product-channel fit and how stresses that the product gets shaped by its acquisition channel.
Shitty liberal culture tells us to be blind to differences amongst people
Reminds me of "I don't see color", which is just as problematic as being blatantly racist.
For me two words are "success" and "competence" It reminds me of the productive struggle slides from earlier in the week, whereby the brain needs to be in that state of relaxed alertness to be open to learning a new skill. But mastery and competence are born from the struggle. As a teacher of younger children where virtually everyone is learning to read, I cannot imagine the stress an upper grade teacher feels when kids come in already been depleted of their sense of competence, belonging and success.
She brings theseexperiences, feelings, and relationships into schoolwith her.
This statement reminds me several things! First it is essential to create an environment that honors respect and emotional safety for all! Secondly, we need to listen, observe, and be present with each child!
As life flows with thethoughts of the children, we need to be open, weneed to change our ideas; we need to be comfortablewith the restless nature of life.
Reminds me of the importance of being a flexible human being.
Overactivity on the part of the adult is a risk factor.The adult does too much because he cares about thechild; but this creates a passive role for the child inher own learning.
This reminds me of that great quote by Maya "Be careful what you teach because you may be disrupting the learning." It is so fascinating that dance we are taught to respect the boundary of the power they hold in their own learning. But at the same time how can we make sure our intervention and direction is the absolute most effective while not disruptive?
time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner.
This reminds me of our practice of having a meal for attendees after a funeral - the idea that life does go on, even in the midst of pain and suffering.
"A right is like you know in your heart it's okay to do it ... you can do it if you want and that's it."
This somewhat reminds me of when I asked a child what they thought a dream was and he said, a dream is like using your imagination in your sleep!
Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour’d ill.
This reminds me when i see a movie scene with a little angel on one man's shoulder and a little devil on the other shoulder.
The smoke floated up toward Will’s face. It came up in front of his eyes and nose and hung there, then it danced and played around his face, and disappeared.
This reminds me of the resurants where mobs would come and torment people of color and allies by blowing smoke in their face. This is so disrespectful and it makes me so mad.
“Then you lied, boy. You lied to me because you’re in the Army Reserve. That right?”
This reminds me of a riddle where you tell someone the color of the bus drivers eye than you ask them to track the number of people getting in and out of a bus and then after 10 minutes you say what color was the bus drivers eyes. They are setting him up for failure and they are saying he lied because the Army Reserve is an organization. This shows the injustice that existed in the voting system.
Then it came about that the love of Kai Kawous for Sudaveh grew yet mightier, and he was as wax under her hands. And when she saw that her empire over him was strengthened, she filled his ear with plaints of Saiawosh, and she darkened the mind of the Shah till that his spirit was troubled, and he knew not where he should turn for truth.
In looking at this moment, the "them" vs "us" is even used with ones own blood. Sudaveh manipulates Kai Kawous in order to get back on Saiawosh for denying her. This reminds me a bit of Lord of the Rings, where the king of Gondor is made ill and is under Sauromon's control and doesn't care that his son was killed. In this sense, Saiawosh is being made into a "them" despite truly being an "us" as he is from his father.
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, “they continue to repeat the stories until they become the norm, and policy emerges accordingly.”
Reminds me of the media coverage of police violence and how they shape stereotypes
who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts
!! I was trying to figure out what this poem reminded me of and this was the line that brought me clarity!! It reminds me of getting of work at 12 AM in downtown SF and seeing and hearing the some of people who are addicted to drugs and usually without anywhere to go just sort of crying and screaming and not knowing where they are and not fully clothed.
only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark. But perhaps the general was a devil—
This reminds me of when Katniss lay in a tree at night and she was relating the capitol to the devil
"Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong, and, if needs be, taken by the strong. The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure. I am strong. Why should I not use my gift? If I wish to hunt, why should I not? I hunt the scum of the earth: sailors from tramp ships—lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, mongrels—a thoroughbred horse or hound is worth more than a score of them
This reminds me of the hunger games and how children are forced to kill each other for sport and entertainment and the general is killing men foe sport and entertainment
I want to feel the surging Of my sad people’s soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
This reminds me a bit of the end of "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes in that it captures that deep sadness that people of color feel when faced with oppression. In this poem the speaker just wants to enjoy their history and roots but a lot of it has been anguished by slavery and injustice.
And let us be contained
To relate to current times during this pandemic and quarantine. We are like these first four lines of the poem. Just staying still and waiting while being contained. This reminds me of how the world is reacting now as we wait for these confusing times to pass.
I am weaving a song of waters,
This reminds me of the repetition and importance of rivers for life/living from Hughes, especially since songs have heavy importance for identity and culture.
My song has the lush sweetness Of moist, dark lips Where hymns keep company
Something I love about this movement is how poets romanticize black people and their music. There is less acknowledgment of the saddness that haunts the black community. Instead, there is celebration of black culture, which feels more liberating. By displaying this beauty, more people in the black community might begin to internalize it as well. This reminds me of severing the veil, and reclaiming their identity.
For some of us have songs to sing Of jungle heat and fires, And some of us are solemn grown With pitiful desires,
This reminds me of Langston Hughes' "Weary Blues." I feel like this line is very telling of the times, and how the black community collectively started to find a voice through music.
The vast majority of medical research, for instance, is based on studies of men
This part of the podcast was especially mindblowing to me. I knew that in medical research women are often overlooked, but I hadn't really thought through what the consequences of that oversight could be. The fact that I, as a woman, immediately think of the "male" version of a heart attack, and that I wasn't even aware that my symptoms could (or indeed, likely will) be different, is terrifying. And the rationale, that women complicate data due to menstrual cycles etc, reminds me of pre-modern doctors writing women's symptoms off as hysteria. This outright absence of women in medical data is shocking.
rivers
The use of anaphora for the word rivers is really interesting. It reminds me of the class discussion of the dry vs. the wet. Usually water (wet) is symbolic of life and in this case is representative of many different types of lives lived, from the Euphrates, the Nile, to the Mississippi.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,* and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
This reminds me of the shift in power dynamics the Africans have gone through in history. In ancient Egypt, while the Egyptians were responsible for creating the pyramids, they also enslaved a handful of the Jews to assist them in the building. This dynamic shfts years later, when the Africans are enslaved in America.
What happens to a dream deferred?
It is amazing that he brings up having a dream, this reminds me of MLK's "i have a dream speech." In this context however, the dream isn't something that is just born as it was with MLK but instead its something that has been long lived. Moreover, he is articulating what happens when a dream has longed for but never progresses further than just a fantasy-- it dies.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surprise
This reminds me of a famous nursery rhyme that ended up having a grim meaning. It is okay to tell the truth "slantly" when protecting others. However, one must be aware that this secret is not infinite.
I feel like this poem is reflecting on how telling the truth is not the correct choice always. While telling the truth is the best option in most cenarios, there are times where the truth will only make things worse. This reminds me of the parents that tell their kid that they're pet was sent to a farm, when in reality the pet died. It is truth that doesn't need to be told in the moment, as it will only make things worse.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surprise
She is saying to not be fully honest and by doing that one will find success. It reminds me of the saying "fake it till you make it." Sometimes the brain cannot grasp certain realities or doesn't want to hear harsh truths so sometimes it is easier or more appealing to hear/tell a slightly twisted truth.
I shall return to loiter by the streams That bathe the brown blades of the bending grasses, And realize once more my thousand dreams
There seems to be a theme of water and rebirth in McKay and Hughes' poems.I like the hopefullness that comes with the idea of returning again, and finally carrying out one's dreams. This reminds me of Hughes' poem "Harlem," seemingly offering a response to the question propsed--"what happens to a dream deferred?" Here, it seems as if McKay is hopefull of one day pursuing those dreams. The poetry of this time indicates liberation is coming, so we must push forward.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror,
This is hardcore!! The speaker is not scared of the personified institution that steps on him. Reminds me of David and Goliath.
How can we portray emotions, gestures, and attention in an authentic way through a computational medium?
This reminds me a bit of Kevin Marks' post about phatic reactions in social media: http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-twitter-works-in-theory.html
The Sims Online was a potentially cozy game dominated by a community of sociopaths. Thematically, it had elements of coziness with pleasant house in friendly neighborhoods. However, these went only skin deep. In an attempt to make a ‘realistic’ simulation, many resources including housing were zero sum in nature. This enabled mafia-esque gangs to enforce coercive social structures like protection rackets. Very quickly the place became anti-cozy; a virtual dystopia. Coziness needs to exist at the systems level in order to have social ramifications.
Reminds me of when some people modded Fallout 2 to support multiplayer and launched a server.. They had to wipe in few days, becaus of groups of people who got power armor and made newjoiners fight each other in exchange for the ammunition, etc..
Addition-ally, teachers maintain a distance between themselves and students whom they see as “other” to them (Petrone & Lewis, 2012).
This discussion about the way texts and readers are treated reminds me of Kenneth Goodman's important criticism of phonics instruction and inauthentic reading assessment. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kgoodman/papers02.html
'In this politicizing of reading instruction, "a virtual censorship of authentic literature and critical thinking enters the classroom through two back doors, which bear the mislabels of science and standards."'
I want to live a good life and I want to risk my life, because I can also lose my life in one night
I love this sentence. It reminds me of our forefathers who risked their lives bringing change to us - the freedom, the liberty, the independence, that we currently have is the efforts they put in practice with their lives at stake.
life has to be lived well or is not worth living.
It reminds me very much of the Egyptian revolution in 2011 before I arrived to the USA, people no longer cared if they will make alive or not, all they wanted is a better future for the next generations, the majority of the deads were young souls even teenagers too.
Most meetings I attend are dominated by male voices, even if the absolute number of women and men in the room is fairly balanced.
This reminds me of what we learned in class the other day about mansplaining. Mansplaining is how men tend to occupy more space than women physically, but I think this also is the same thing. There were the same amount of men and women, but the men stood out more and talked more
the best that we have
This reminds me of Churchill's attribution (apparently said as a quote of someone else) "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
The answer is no; not because the New Negro is not here, but because the Old Negro had long become more of a myth than a man.
Reminds me of the ghost metaphor, about being there and not at the same time. So the "New Negro" doesn't really exist because there was never an "Old Negro", but it does exist at the same time because of the power of the myth.
protective social mimicry forced upon him by the adverse circumstances of dependence
This reminds me of the main character of August Wilson's "Fences", Troy, who is stuck in the "old" mindset because he was conditioned to buy into it. One of the key words here is "protective"; in order to survive, one must assimilate, and upon assimilation, one loses their own sense of identity as it was and it becomes something warped: who I am and who I will never be. This is also present in the histories of the Indigenous peoples in North America.
A prominent Negro clubwoman in Philadelphia paid eleven dollars to hear Raquel Meller sing Andalusian popular songs. But she told me a few weeks before she would not think of going to hear “that woman,” Clara Smith, a great black artist, sing Negro folksongs. And many an upper -class Negro church, even now, would not dream of employing a spiritual in its services. The drab melodies in white folks’ hymnbooks are much to be preferred. “We want to worship the Lord correctly and quietly. We don’t believe in ‘shouting.’ Let’s be dull like the Nordics,” they say, in effect.
It is really sad and jarring for me to see such an outward rejection of black culture within the community. Although I don't feel super in touch with my culture, I still always support artists in my community trying to branch out. This really highlights the self-loathing within the community and reminds me of "the veil". The blacks see themselves the way they whites see them, and in turn reject how they see themselves.
If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter.
Heck yeah !! This is something those with prejudice and privilege seem to not understand. It's cool if you like it, but it's not made for you. This is true of art and style, clothing and fashion and music. This reminds me of two things:
d the mother often says “Don’t be like niggers” when the children are bad. A frequent phrase from the father is, “Look how well a white man does things.”
They are taught that the n-word is shameful and bad while acting white is somewhat a higher class that they should be aiming for. This passage reminds me of a poem that I read in the past named Incident by Countee Cullen. In it is the incidents of the narrators encounters with racism and how it affected them even by an older age. This passage is similar as in the mother telling her children how to act in a certain way according to a certain ethnicity is impactful in a negative way.
The Negro artist works against an undertow of sharp criticism and misunderstanding from his own group and unintentional bribes from the whites.
This reminds me or artist like Sor Juana and Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) having to hide their identity in order to be heard and save their work from ridicule.
one-pagers
This reminds me of an economics class in which we were allowed to bring a 3x5 index card of notes into the final. I copied my whole notebook in tiny handwritten print! The focus of that concentrated writing is what helped me remember the concepts.
Lots of people in the world have made you feel powerless. Run-of-the-mill bullies; both of your parents, and most adults, when you were a child; unflinching bureaucrats at the DMV, the post office. A doctor who didn't believi:_ you were sick, approximately two minutes before you projectile vomited against the wall. A cadre of nurses who pried you~ arms away from your body to take your blood when they thought you had cancer. (You didn't have cancer, but, they never did figure out why you spe~t so much of your childhood cramping with agony.)
This paragraphs reminds me of how women are less of a priority in medical research and how women are generally less likely to have their concerns and voice taken seriously. It's as if society is conditioning one to be silent and not to "complain" but of course, these conditions have severe repercussions when it comes to lack of diagnosis, abuse, and is the reason why the "Me Too" movement exists. Machado writes that all these experiences make her feel powerless and self-loathing, and assigning blame to herself for her "own suffering." Machado goes on further to say how it's hard to describe the type of person who makes one feel powerless and how words and descriptors can have different connotations and fail to communicate the proper meaning to describe this feeling or these actions. All the words she tried using all have homophobic connotations of the past and they haunt her. Also all the people she described that have made her powerless are the family/agencies/professionals that are supposed to be there to help her.
That's what people do, when they're mad at the person who would otherwise sleep next to them.
This reminds me of the vignette that talks about the movie Gaslight and accentuates how her standards of behavior, normal or outlier behaviors stem from movies, books, friends' experiences, but never from any personal experience. In this scene, she sleeps on the couch and justifies this action based on movies. This aspect of her creates a level of vulnerability while simultaneously shields her from sleeping next to her girlfriend after her actions.
an entire hemisphere's worth of culture
While the immediate association with regional culture might be "niche", pointing out that it's actually "an entire hemisphere's worth of culture" reminds us that this is a large and rich cultural tradition, and thus more open-armed and welcoming. It makes me feel like I'm more likely to enjoy it, while also giving it more ethos / authority.
So do her friends and yours. Anyone who knows her contributes to her social identity. The sum total of stories about your mom is the grand narrative of who she is.
Kind of reminds me of the heart aspect in Homestuck where each individual splinter of a character is considered a vector or crude imitation of the whole piece.
So like each Dirk splinter has an individual story that when amassed together produces the "Ultimate Self".
In this respect, military education and training in a national liberation movement and among the people is regarded as an integral part of the revolution. The goal is development of a political-military force of the masses
The ZAPU's plan for a military was carefully thought out. Their emphasis military training and education reminds me of Machiavelli's The Prince when he mentioned that being successful in war requires studying the art of the war. ZAPU realizes it's important for its military to focus on strength and strategy.
The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblence to a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.”
This also reminds me of the book A Doll's House when the main female character is almost dehumanized mainly because of her sexuality.
I saw the monster cower back
I found this interesting that "monster" and "cower" are used in the same sentence. This immediately reminds me of the story in the bible about "David and Goliath". Much like Goliath, Dracula is viewed as the bigger more powerful character but, in this setting, is beat by the "underdog", Van Helsing.
For the sake of the Fatherland we must make sacrifices and endure hardships for a certain time.
This reminds me of Hitler's writing regarding Germany as the "Motherland" and the sacrifices that must be made to bring peace and prosperity. This is why countries with strong nationalistic ideals are so dangerous. The best type of soldier is one who has real reasons to fight. Not for money, but to protect his home.
Because if we do not wage the Resistance war, the French will occupy our country once more. They will enslave our people once more. They will force our people to be their coolies and soldiers, and to pay them every kind of taxes. They will suppress all our democratic freedoms. They will plunder all our land and property. They will terrorise and massacre our brothers, sisters, and relatives. They will burn down or destroy our houses, pagodas and temples. You will realise this by seeing what they have done in Hanoi and Haiphong.
All that Ho Chi Minh says here appears to be greatly exaggerated and stigmatized. It reminds me of the kind of fear mongering an propaganda that occurred in Nazi Germany in which the truth was stretched on order to illicit a strong emotional response among the masses. By demonizing the French, it makes it all the more easier for the people to blindly follow what the leader is saying and fight against a wholly evil enemy
"meanings don't come out of the air, we make them out of a chaos of images, half-truths, remembrances, syntactic fragments, from the mysterious and unformed
I really like this quote on meaning. I t reminds me of admiring art, or going to an art museum. People will spend a lot of money and time viewing pieces of art that have a different meaning to each person viewing it.
Composing is a process of making connections, rearranging materials (words, images, concepts) in unexpected ways.
Love this. Really reminds me of how people describe music. Music is just the same 12 notes rearranged in countless different ways. Pretty crazy to think about it that way - how people are still able to create original music when everyone's been using the same 12 notes for how many years...
"meanings don't come out of the air, we make them out of a chaos of images, half-truths, remembrances, syntactic fragments, from the mysterious and unformed. When we teach pre-writing as a phase of the composing process, what we are teaching is not how to get a thesis statement but the generation and uses of chaos"
This reminds me of when we would find symbolism in books or poems in high school. Normally, the symbol might not mean anything to a first-time reader, but upon looking closer, you can make some pretty cool connections.
composition teachers might also engage students in crafting works of interactive hypermedia that value and enact the process of discovery through inventive juxtaposition.
This reminds me of sites like TikTok, the entire idea of a duet is a series of juxtapositions.
crafting new knowledge through the process of making and interpreting unexpected connections
This reminds me of the Oulipo writers that put various constraints on their work (i.e. to not use the letter 'e' in a novel, or rolling a die and leaving to chance the words that are used in a poem). I believe these kinds of texts would qualify as hypertexts.
pick stroke into the roads has the value of a bullet shot
Great comparison here, and very accurate. This section reminds me of when we discussed why Native Americans were not easily enslaved. Because they knew the land and were used to the climate, they could easily escape bondage. The same is true here for the Vietnamese; because the Vietnamese people were conditioned to their environment, they automatically has an upper hand over any enemies.
Seven years ago, Patrisse Cullors wrote a sort of mission statement for Black Lives Matter: “Provide hope and inspiration for collective action to build collective power to achieve collective transformation.
Reminds me the song "White Privilege II," by Macklemore.
f her love for you has sharpened and pinned you to a wall.
It reminds me of people who collect insects and compile them into a shadow box with pins. Similarly to Autobahn who was the curator for collecting and compiling a database of birds in the world. The curator controls who and how the subjects are displayed to the world. This short passage displays how arrested Machado is under her partner.
There is something sensual about it, almost erotic, until everything begins to go bad. Every time you open the fridge it smell~ more and more like a garden (dirt, rain, life), and then like a dumpster, and then, ~ventually, like death. You mention it once, but then she does that thing where she repeats what you've said a few times, each time getting a little more sarcastic until you apologize, though you never know what you are apologizing for. It is her money, yes, her fridge. And her rot.
I find Machado's vignette Dream House as Pathetic Fallacy particularly interesting. Pathetic Fallacy as a literary device attributes human feelings to inanimate things. Thus, Machado is using pathetic fallacy in order to invoke an image of her decaying abusive relationship. Just like the vegetables in the fridge which are healthy and lively in the beginning slowly start to rot and spoil; the same can be said for Machado's relationship with her girlfriend. At this point in her memoir, Machado no longer views her relationship as something that is viable and alive. Rather, it has become "like death" and "rot." Machado's use of pathetic fallacy reminds me of Anzaldua in terms of their writing style. Both Machado and Anzaldua are able to give life through their writing and use of fantastical language.
In this way the question of the oppressed nations become one of supporting the oppressed nations, of rendering real and continuous assistance to them in their struggle against imperialism for real equality of nations, for their independent existence as states.
I find it extremely ironic how Joseph Stalin can even bring up themes like equality and oppressed nations when he literally killed hundreds of thousands, if not more, of his own people. Stalin connects imperialism to the oppression of people when he has hundreds of thousands of his own citizens starving to death. This reminds me of when Columbus and other explorers used religion to justify their actions in foreign lands.
Formerly, the principle of self-determination of nations was usually misinterpreted, and not infrequently it was narrowed down to the idea of the right of nations to...cultural autonomy, i.e., the right of oppressed nations to have their own cultural institutions, leaving all political power in the hands of the ruling nation.
This statement reminds me of the "Scramble for Africa" during the 1880s because the Europeans did not account for tribal boundaries when drawing the new borders of a colonized Africa, leading to great conflict. Although the Soviet Union was not involved, it certainly drew upon the principles that inspired the issue by involving itself in colonial conflicts. In fact, much like the alterior motives that fueled the rapid takeover of Africa in the late nineteenth centry, the Russians likely participated in colonial efforts to protect their commumist ideals in the face of American capitalism. These efforts also produced conflict via proxy warfare.
What kind of monsters?” I’d ask, wide-eyed. It became a sort of routine. “Awfulhunched-over ones with rotting skin and black eyes,” he’d say. “And they walked likethis!” And he’d shamble after me like an old-time movie monster until I ran awaylaughing
This reminds me of the movie the bird box for some reason
Throw the children into the river
This line reminds me so much of the novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. In that novel Roxy, a slave, contemplated killing herself and her son by drowning herself in the river, so that her son wouldn't have to grow up and live through a life of servitude and mistreatment.
issociate Caesar’s spirit from his body
Interesting that they use the word "spirit". It reminds me of Caesar's ghost, which is haunting Brutus. Brutus wanted to seperate key aspects of Caesar in order to create a somewhat perfect ruler, and he did not succeed which is why Caesar's ghost appears to him.
Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return
This part stood out to me because it made me think about the golden rule you learned in kindergarten, "do to others as you would have them do unto you" although Auden seems to put this idea into the bully's perspective, that because evil has been done to them they continue to do evil. It reminds me of the cycle of abuse that plagues our society. When someone is hurt they often turn around and continue to hurt others.
rationale
Instead of a Problem, Solution, Rationale triple, the Y Combinator folks talk about a Problem, Solution, Insight triple. The insight concerns unfair advantages related to growth. It could come from across several "suits": Founders, Market, Product, Acquisition, and Monopoly.
Whereas the rationale concerns repeatable patterns, startup ideas concern more time-, location- and context-specific opportunities. So, OK, there are some differences: but it seems to me that the common features between these two design languages is worth keeping in mind!
The breakdown across different "suits" reminds me also of the multiple capitals theory used by XinX.
t was not by mere chance that the first forms of civilization arose where the Aryan came into contact with inferior races, subjugated them and forced them to obey his command. The members of the inferior race became the first mechanical tools in the service of a growing civilization.
This reminds me of the "White Man's Burden" and the idea that white or in this case the Aryan race was physically, intellectually, religiously, etc. more competent. While this idea was widespread throughout Europe and the entire world, Hitler took it to new extremes. Throughout this semester we have seen the enslavement of people and raping and pillaging of villages, but Adolph Hitler was performing genocide on one of the largest scales ever.
This very fact fully justifies the conclusion that it was the Aryan alone who founded a superior type of humanity; therefore he represents the archetype of what we understand by the term: man.
This statement not only reminds me of the "white man's burden", but it also shows how historically a patriarch was in place. Hitler's specific language referencing 'man' shows how during this time there was a male dominant society in place.
The situation is the same in regard to what we understand by the word ‘propaganda.’ The purpose of propaganda is not the scientific instruction of the individual, but rather to attract public attention to certain facts, events, urgent needs, and so on, the importance of which can be brought home to the masses only by this means.
This frustrates me and reminds me of things we see today. Often we see things in our own media that are emblematic of propaganda. When in reality even when one reports the news. Even if one reports facts, the matter in which it was reported skews the perspective of the viewer. For example: the US has a sizable trade deficit. This is a fact. However, politicians like to use this statement as leverage, because to the average American it seems like a very scary and negative thing that slows GDP/hurts the economy. When in-fact this is not true and if you were to ask an Economist about this they could explain why this isn’t big scary danger, and how it is typical of developed countries with advanced economies. My point is that this is common/easy to take advantage of viewers even when you aren't technically lying about facts.
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one
This statement reminds me of our last class lecture, in which we discussed how the French believed they were superior to the Spanish because they were "above" slavery. The French also believed it was in inferior races best interests to be civilized by those who thought themselves superior.
it reminds me of IT security best practices. Based on experience and the lessons we have learned in the history of IT security, we have come up with some basic rules that, when followed, go a long way to preventing serious problems later.
Statistics are not cold hard facts – as Nate Silver writes in The Signal and the Noise (2012): ‘The numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.’ Not only has someone used extensive judgment in choosing what to measure, how to define crucial ideas, and to analyse them, but the manner in which they are communicated can utterly change their emotional impact. Let’s assume that £350 million is the actual weekly contribution to the EU. I often ask audiences to suggest what they would put on the side of the bus if they were on the Remain side. A standard option for making an apparently big number look small is to consider it as a proportion of an even bigger number: for example, the UK’s GDP is currently around £2.3 trillion, and so this contribution would comprise less than 1 per cent of GDP, around six months’ typical growth. An alternative device is to break down expenditure into smaller, more easily grasped units: for example, as there are 66 million people in the UK, £350 million a week is equivalent to around 75p a day, less than $1, say about the cost of a small packet of crisps (potato chips). If the bus had said: We each send the EU the price of a packet of crisps each day, the campaign might not have been so successful.
The second problem is that we are carrying out repeated significance tests, as each year’s new data are added and another test performed. Fortunately, it turns out that there is some remarkable but complex theory, delightfully known as ‘the law of the iterated logarithm’. This shows that if we carry out such repeated testing, even if the null hypothesis is true, then we are certain to eventually reject that null at any significance level we choose.
Fortunately, there are statistical methods for dealing with this problem of sequential testing. They were first developed in the Second World War by teams of statisticians working on industrial quality-control of armaments and other war materiel.
Armaments coming off the production line were being monitored by steadily accumulating total deviations from a standard, much in the same way as monitoring excess mortality. Scientists realised that the law of the iterated logarithm meant that repeated significance testing would always lead eventually to an alert that the industrial process had gone out of strict control, even if in truth everything was functioning fine. Essentially, if we keep on checking on a process, in the end something will look odd just by chance alone.
This last part reminds me of Buffet: "If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you're going to get a ticket”
In particular, fetal phase, infancy and childhood are uniquely vulnerable to environmental forces as shown in a review of studies on the developmental origin of disease.
This slightly reminds me of the article we read about urban evolution. Specifically, because environment was talked about heavily as affecting the humans, animals, and plants that live there.
Tis true: there’s magic in the web of it:
This reminds me of the first few scenes where Desdemona's father said she would not love him if he didn't use magic.
This point made regarding production cost here reminds me of the PPF, by using cost of production and law of returns to figure out the actual amount of money coming in.
You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen.
This reminds me of the last chapter of "This is how you lose her". Although it is about someone else, there is a realization of their life. With all the actions that occur, the words don't mean anything. In other words, actions speak louder than words. The narrator does have pity for the other person but there is only so much that the narrator does feel.
Her knife raps against the cutting board with unnervihg precision
This description reminds me of the atmosphere of a thriller or horror film. The unnerving, slow build to a break of some sort...
She unbuckles her seat belt, and leans very close to your ear. "You're not allowed to write about this," she says. "Don't you ever write about this. Do you fucking understand me?" You don't know if she means the woman or her, but you nod.
This reminds me of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. When Lt. Cross asks the narrator to never write about his failure of leadership with regard to Ted Lavender in the Vietnam War. But the narrator writes about it anyway.
actually in service of the settler colonial state’s “economization of emotion”?
Reminds me of Charles Eisenstein's arguments about a growth economy that seeks to privatize ever more of the public domain—while there may not be all that much left of it, affective experience seems a likely candidate to me for future pushes.
The last major innovation in K-12 education was Montessori, which traces back to the 1960s; we’ve been doing education research that’s never reached practical deployment for 50 years since
This painfully reminds me that a few years ago, in the primary school of my kids, the Montessori structures (cross-age classes, constructionist materials) were torn down to make way for more pupils per class and less experienced personnel :(
acquired the ability to digest potatoes, a domesticated crop derived from wild tubers.
This reminds me of something I read recently about a particular enzyme that is only found in red algae and the digestive tract of the Japanese. Because red algae is a staple in the Japanese diet, it has adopted itself into their gut flora to assist in digestion of raw seafood.
Nausea, for one, comes with real implications for dynamics of gender within digital cultures. Both official studies, including work by danah boyd, and a significant number of anecdotal reports have shown that women are more likely than men to experience nausea when playing VR games.
Interesting knowledge that reminds me of the lack of use of women in drug testing etc.
False promises. giving people the hope of a democracy, silently knowing it will never come. Reminds me of Uhuru, the policy he promised to implement at the beginning of presidency.
The truth, of course, is that plagues have no meaning. All they are is a virus perpetuating itself inside and alongside us. Period. We know this now — unlike many of our ancestors — because of science.
Reminds me of Marcus Aurelius' "See things for what they truly are." Sex is just the rubbing of two bodies and some liquid. Wine is just fermented grapes, etc.
these are my people & I find them on the street & shadow
this reminds me of someone just walking down a road , with headphones in reflecting.
Many of the first known cases clustered around a seafood market in Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million and a transportation hub.
I mean it's not just Wuhan that's crowded but most of China, I think east side mostly or near the ocean. This is like the ideal conditions for plague inc because it allows for the virus or disease to spread quickly. This also reminds me of some of the prisons where it's cramped and people are getting sick in their which is why some people are free.
drain more of our mental resources while we are reading
In the abstract, the study cited points to "dual-task effects of fulfilling the assignment and working with the computer resulting in a higher cognitive workload".
Although this load may decrease with people getting more and more familiar with computers (and computers getting more and more intuitive), it is also the case that more distractors are available too.
This reminds me of a webinar hosted by Hypothesis in which Amanda Licastro mentioned Cathy Davidson's book "Now you see it" to talk about "Productive Multitasking". In the view that Amanda presented (at least what I understood of what she said), multitasking and distractions are unavoidable, but we can canalize them productively through web annotation, for example -instead of switching to Facebook and disconnect from what we were reading.
will become signs that carry meanings.
This again reminds me of documentation. With documentation all of these images described in this paragraph can come to life and be explored and re-visited.
He needed to make a statement to the citizens of Reggio Emilia about the importance of preschools, and offer proof of his beliefs
This reminds me of the importance of community in the Reggio Emilia philosophy.
We recognize that all these languages need to be considered with equal dignity and value. They should receive support and adequate competent support from the adults and the environment.
The power of observation and documenting child assessment in order to recognize the languages and build on these progressions for children. This reminds me how important it is for teachers to receive professional development opportunities and to know and understand the power of observation and intentional planning.
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Reminds me of how right now there's less pollution and animals are returning to places that got too dirty for them or are coming out into vacated public places when people aren't there; in this poem it's before anyone is awake and before people start affecting the land that it is beautiful.
if you write a bad sentence, you don't publish it. You delete it and try again. Often you abandon whole branches of four or five paragraphs. Sometimes a whole essay.You can't ensure that every idea you have is good, but you can ensure that every one you publish is, by simply not publishing the ones that aren't.
This reminds me of something that Joel Speranza shared:
Also published on Read Write Collect
we believe it is imperative to follow such critical conversations with the opportunity for students to act. Without such, we fear leaving students in a state of helplessness
Important follow-through. Reminds me of this work from Oakland CA although this is high school; but a similar emphasis of shifting from helplessness to agency. https://learn.teachingchannel.com/video/prepare-civic-engagement-edda (this is behind a firewall - will look for a better link)
posthumanist exploration of the deep and growing entanglements between the worlds of people and of things in robotics and artificial intelligence;
This reminds me of Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects.
he Internet grew by breaking, bumping up against the limits of existing protocols and practices and work-ing around them, leaving behind almost by accident some of the proper-ties that we now enumerate as key and distinctive virtues of the Internet as an infrastructural form.
This reminds me again of glitch theory, the notion that things breaking reveals the capacity of that system to work in unexpected ways.
some are more on the receiving end of globalization than others
This reminds me the article Bridget reviewed a few weeks ago. The Global South is responsible for innovating/upcycling old tech with very little pay-off.
Here, then, are two radically different forces and realities. On one hand, a fractal world, a centrifugal world, an always-almost-falling-apart world. On the other, a world in constant process of fixing and reinvention, recon-figuring and reassembling into new combinations and new possibilities—a topic of both hope and concern.
This reminds me of when I was just listening to Lauryn Hill's MTV Unplugged performance, she said something about taking her family to Disneyland and being taken the VIP way, through the behind-the-curtain bowels of where the Disneyland employees work and how it was dark & sweaty & smelly, the complete opposite of what the outside world sees. She noted that people need to see the underbelly, the cost that enables the luxury, because they can't appreciate anything while living a lie. I see the same thing happening with the real world ramifications of all the manufacturing waste piling up on our shores as we revel in 24/7/365 entertainment, the latest phone, etc
The world of technology is more complex and less orderly than that, full of dynamics, tensions, and powers that neat binary distinctions—and the systems of explanation built on them—struggle to explain. Modes of thought that expand our cast of characters, including but certainly not limited to the breakers, fixers, and maintainers highlighted here, are therefore necessary and promising additions to the field.
Another great point. This reminds me of at time at my previous job when we were implementing a new CRM system which sent data back and forth between two other systems. It was constantly breaking down/in constant need of repair. Everyone was extremely frustrated by the constant maintenance needed to sustain the system, but when you're moving large amounts of data between multiple systems I think breakdown is inevitable and should have been anticipated.
are in process of coming apart, perhaps to be replaced by new and better stories and orders, but perhaps not.
This reminds me of Mark Fisher's explanation of capitalist realism-- the inability to conceive of a future that is not late stage capitalism (okay, I probably butchered that explanation). In any case, despite the clear signs of our world being broken, so many are unable to see or acknowledge the need for a radical, systemic change.
Shukhovtookupsomeofthesteamingmortaronhistrowelandslappeditintotheappropriateplace
the brick making reminds me of those tiktoks where the kids make houses out of dirt and mud in their backyards and stuff
diversity is introduced through the presence of the two co-teachers
This reminds me of my first "real" job at the brand new John Hancock corporate child care center in Boston. We taught as a team of three, and our personalities were very diverse, which I believed offered the children a rich mix of adult connections.
Not sweet at all, because Noemi doesn’t give it to you! Th ree Saturdays in a row she sleeps over, and three Saturdays in a row nada. A little kissing, a little feeling up, but nothing beyond that. She brings her own pillow, one of those expensive foam ones, and her own toothbrush, and she takes it all with her Sunday morning. Kisses you at the door as she leaves; it all feels too chaste to you, too lacking in promise.
This is almost humorous because Noemi is unlike the girls and women that Yunior has been romantically/sexually involved with in the past. Throughout this book, Yunior has been sexually involved with women and rarely romantically. We know that social expectations, as well as cultural ones, supported by the idea of machismo expect boys and men to be sexually active/dominant as well as promiscuous. We see it here again, because Yunior is surprised when Noemi isn't explicitly sexual with him. Actually, this bit reminds me of Miss Lora and how much different Noemi is from her. I think that this bit showcases how Yunior feels when women don't reciprocate sexual energy. He says "A little kissing, a little feeling up, but nothing beyond that" as if he's expecting something more. The fact that she brings her own stuff (pillow, toothbrush) tells us that she is independent and isn't up for attachment, a large contrast from past women like Miss Lora who was very much physically attuned with Yunior. The fact that Yunior finds a problem with this/finds it odd tells us so much about what he expects from women.
Time for you and time for me,And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
This stanza reminds me of the passage in Ecclesiastes 3 when Solomon (the writer of Ecclesiastes) talks about how there will be a time for everything... "A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to uproot" etc. There is a lot of Biblical referencing in this poem, which makes it seem almost like a prayer of sorts. Even though it is a "love song," I think he is just crying out to whoever would hear him in his time of anguish.
Theyellow fogthat rubs its back upon the window-panes,The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
These two lines interested me mostly because the speaker personified the yellow fog and the yellow smoke. Even though the fog and smoke are the same, he gives them each it's own characteristic. "The yellow fog rubs its back on the window-panes", this reminds me of a cat arching its back to rub it on something to scratch its back. "The yellow smoke rubs its muzzle on the window panes", reminds me of a dog rubbing its snout against something. Also, the fog may indicate the location like an over-populated city because it produces a lot of pollution so the air is very yellow.
The Second Coming!
What comes to mind about this phrase is an aspect of religion, especially in the Bible. In the Bible, the Second Coming is regarding the future, the return of Jesus Christ after he ascended into heaven, and it is talked about in the book of Revelation, (ironically, during the due time on Easter). I do think that Yeats brings in a religious aspect. However, I don't think it is in any way Christianity because, in the following line, he talks about Spiritus Mundi, which I believe is another spiritual figure mixed with a lion and the head of a man. (Side note: that description of Spiritus Mundi, reminds me of Narnia.)
protectionist mentality
the protectionist mentality is very greedy and dangerous, it reminds me of Lord of the Flies
People like us spend our lives in the world of ideas and wonderfully so. They are thecurrency of academic life. But not all ideas are created equal and the ones I will talkabout today have two peculiar characteristics
This also reminds me!
These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
I think that this is just a beautiful line. It reminds me a lot of “the eye of the beholder” as well as the episode from the Twilight Zone, where the lady wanted to be beautiful.
it to be animated
Reminds me of Frankenstein's monster. The machine isn't brought to life rather becomes part of us. I understand this in thinking about like prosthetic legs. You don't bring it to life once you start walking on it. It IS a part of you and the process of you walking.
natural constituency needs defense jobs
this "need" for defense jobs/the military-industrial complex reminds me of our readings which associate the masculine with violence (which is not always a helpful reading, but here seems to be the point that Haraway is making)
he international women'smovements have constructed 'women's experience', as well asuncovered or discovered this crucial collective object.
This reminds me of the idea that "women are excluded until someone 'discovers' their absence" (The Gender Gap in Patents -Sue Rosser, page 125)
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This idea of cause and effect leeching into the forms of interaction we see within all cultural institutions reminds me of a less strict and matter of fact "needs" or functional understanding of how we explain the use of these systems within our culture.
n communities located near coal power plants, disproportionately black, brown, and low-income, this has direct consequences for public health including greater rates of asthma and infant mortality
Reminds me of the many anecdotes and examples we read in "Race After Technology" earlier in the semester
The most effective systems leave a sufficient level of inefficiency in order that they can be resilient in changing contexts.
This reminds me of the inefficiency of educational technology staff and professional learning in schools. Trainers and coaches can be seen as inefficient because change is slow and implementation of digital tools is uneven and seemingly detached from performance metrics. Still, having people who are knowledgeable and capable of providing job-embedded coaching and support is vital at a time like this, when schools are called upon to be resilient.
To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
This statement reminds me somewhat of the "White Man's Burden" in that less developed groups of people were believed to be in need of assistance and stability. Although the context of the "White Man's Burden" was vastly different, it is clear that the winners of World War I gave themselves political and economic power over the colonial territories of the losers of the war, whether these territories accepted their help or not.
And other withered stumps of time Were told upon the walls; staring forms Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed. Footsteps shuffled on the stair. Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair Spread out in fiery points Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
The first motif that catches my eyes is time, indicated in the "withered stumps of time." This motif stays on theme with the warped sense of time constant throughout the poem. In this piece, Eliot frequently alludes to desire, and being unable to fulfill that desire. "Withered stumps of time" reminds me of decaying time, as if this wealthy woman surrounded by her riches has wasted away alone, with nothing but her treasures. There is a sad longing in this motif, as if she longs for something more fulfilling than just her riches. When she hears the "footsteps sheffled on the stair," her "hair spread out in firey points." This indicates that at the sound of life, of company, something within her ignites, thus indicating her desire for company.
In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home. It has no windows, and the door swings, Dry bones can harm no one. Only a cock stood on the rooftree Co co rico co co rico In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust Bringing rain
Relating to my previous annotation, this passage also explores the dry/wet motif, but this time focusing more on the wet. It also ties in a different aspect of zombies, as well as fragments and exile. The opening line discusses a “decayed hole among the mountains”, which reminds me of my previous passage discussing the “withered stumps of time.” A few lines down, “dry bones” can also be a great example of zombies, discussing bones that have been decaying and drying up in ties with the idea of passing time and mortality. Discussing fragments can also relate to these fragments of bones, and even the fragments of this decaying environment that is trying to hold onto its last pieces. The empty chapel seems lonely and exiled from the world, with fragments of architecture barely holding on, and fragments of life scattered and hard to recognize. The single cock that remains seems to be the only source of life left in this environment, and even the cock is exiled as it crows into the storm. The end lines bring back the dry/wet motif, with the heat and dry of lightning, then followed by the wet of the rain. “...a damp gust” can also represent both wet and dry at the same time, since a gust of wind is normally thought of as dry air being blown around, but this time the gust brings rain, thus turning this into a wet and dry type of weather at once.
The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four. And we shall play a game of chess, Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said— I didn’t mince my words, I said to her myself, HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME Now Albert’s coming back, make yourself a bit smart. He’ll want to know what you done with that money he gave you To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
The first motif that I noticed in this part of II. A Game of Chess was that of wet/dry. The passage I've highlighted opens with "The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four". I don't know exactly how bathing worked back then, but I'm sure people still preferred hot water, so Eliot is setting up people who are looking forward to hot water and hoping for no rain. People could wait for the rain and bathe themselves in it, instead of waiting for the hot water. I see a connection here between un/natural time, too. The people want to be clean for sure by ten; they won't wait for nature to pick a time to provide water. Nature provides people with what they need, but not always a way to form these things to suit themselves. I'm thinking toilet paper, loin cloths, fire, etc. People manipulate nature, including its timing, to create comfort and order.
The thing about the teeth could be connected to to zombies, as well as desire frustrated. Lil needs new teeth because our bodies only give us one set, which can (and often does) decay before the rest of our bodies. This decay -a dead or dying thing residing within a living person- reminds me of zombies. Somewhere in the corpse that is a zombie something lives. Not unlike how in the body of a living person something dead (fake teeth) can live. That she wants and needs new teeth because at age 31 a person is expected to still have them is an example of her desires being frustrated.
Gentlemen, these are considerations that merit the full attention of patriots.
This statement reminds me of the growing sense of nationalism that emerged in the late 1800s (eventually leading to World War I in the early 1900s), as the colonial policies that Ferry supported created a worldview with France at the center of it (a "Franco-centric" worldview).
they have a duty
This paragraph reminds me of the white man's burden we discussed in another reading last week. I think it is interesting that Ferry does not explain why "superior races" have this right. I think if he would have explained this it would of derailed his goals of expanding more or his message would come across as urgently.
It reminds me of my senior project with all the resources that I had to use/
Can you say more?
It reminds me of my other years of schooling with all the resources that I had to use back then.
please explain, describing the work?
the dimensions of the danger were being inflated by a U.S. government eager, in September 2001, to rally an increasingly hostile public to its support and to distract its citizens from the ecological and social concerns underlying the growing protest movements of the previous two years
I talked a little bit about this in an earlier annotation. How the events from 9/11 changed the American mindset. I agree that the U.S. government had much to do with this because they made it a constant point to make the Islamists to seem like the biggest threat to America and the negative feelings that people had from the event grew even more from this. When a society focuses on an enemy as a root for their problems then they become blind to all of the other issues and the root of their societies real distress. This causes for unnecessary war as mentioned later which definitely does more harm because now people and resources are being used up and invested. This reminds me of parallel concepts between 1984 and the how the U.S. government acts when in war. In 1984 they distracted their citizens with the constant state of war and focused their minds on who the "enemy" was to their society even though they suffered from many other problems.
Thetoesofhisleftfootwerenumbtoo
this kinda reminds me of when my blood circulation cuts off and i can't feel certain parts of my foot
redandenormous
reminds me of the soviet flag,
n the upper house of the Parliament, a two-thirds majority of members voted to dissolve Kashmir’s last legal right to self-determination and protection, and in the lower house—the Lok Sabha—a better than 5:1 majority of India’s popularly elected representatives endorsed the move. The rest applauded the government for having the courage to take such a risk. There was a sinister grin on the face of the Parliamentarians. It wasn’t the smile of pride or satisfaction that one sees on the face of a patriot after doing something for the nation. It was the sadistic grin that emerges after you’ve humiliated a people.
This issue here reminds me of the reasons the Americans revolted the British Monarch in the first place. They felt their rights being stripped away and had no representation during government choices. The Kashmir deserve better treatment and should be allowed to follow their culture
Google Analytics Premium (later to be renamed Google Analytics 360)
Google Analytics Premium was a better name, because it is very clear what it is.
Google Analytics 360 sounds dumb to me. What does 360 have to do with anything?
Reminds me Xbox Live 360 (and, though an unrelated number, Office 365). Are they copying Microsoft?
Reminds me of YouTube Red. Where do they come up with this stuff?
Natural his-tory, as a study of expiration, also engages with this mythic aspect of innovation.
This reminds me of how scientists are constantly trying to classify and dissect the material world in order to order the chaos. It will be interesting to see how we will order dematerialized or rematerailized items/creations since we perceive the immaterial world as zero matter. How will we go forth discussing the virtual world after the COVID19 ?
e toll could have reached as much as 100 million, and it not clear that we will ever know for sure how many people fell victim to the disease
Kind of reminds me what is going on right now in China. I have read articles that speculate that the death toll is far higher in China than they are actually reporting.
n the early stages of sifting throughconversations with these teachers, whatemerged was their reticence to engage ques-tions of race and culture in education, es-pecially when these questions shifted theattention to them as “White.” I found thatthis group of teachers did not see them-selves as having a racial identity, or at leastnot one that they were comfortable articu-lating. In recounting her work with Whitepreservice teachers, Pearl Rosenberg (1997)observed, “For some, their identity as whitepeople only takes shape in relationto oth-ers” (p. 80).
This reminds me of White Fragility by Robin Diangelo