Also, when the storm passes, each of you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world.
i feel like what stayed after the storm is much important than what is gone. Whatever is gone will always leave a mark on you but you need to look towards what is to come and what you have.
the eagle aspect, that from above, and see the whole; see more broadly.
i never thought about this. Eagles' view is the way to go.
If you repent of the problem and consume the news 24 hours a day, with little energy, nervous all the time, with pessimism, you will fall into the hole. But if you take this opportunity to look at yourself, rethink life and death, take care of yourself and others, you will cross the portal.
life has taught me that regretting won't really do me much, i have to accept the fact and move on. I have to take action on the things I regret. There is always a good in a bad and always a bad in a good, so you have to learn to balance it all.
he decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you
definitely because i could choose to notice the fact of a different world at look at the negatives and drown in my sadness but i could also choose to look at the positives or accept the sadness and choose to move on
o I may not always come before youwith excellency of speechBut do not judge me by my language and assume
I feel like what matters is not how to say it or speak but what is conveyed what the speaker is trying to say to the audience
I’m so tired of the negative images that are driving my people madSo unless you’ve seen it rob a bank stop calling my hair badI’m so sick of this nonsensical racial disparitySo don’t call it good unless your hair is knownfor donating to charity
inequality is always the root of the problem whether it is racial, gender, income, there are just too many
peoples
every single time
The kitchen table is where I did my homework
i have gotten kicked out of my kitchen table..my parents didn't let me do my work there since it was a place where we ate 😂
program meant to help students complete their “last mile.”
yess, that should be a thing for all school institutes
The most effective way for colleges to spend money may simply be to give it to students — not just to pay for tuition but also to cover living expenses.
if tuition is paid for but we still need to work for our living expenses then the time spent at jobs to get money to pay for living expenses will just take all the time we could be giving towards out studies
For students who live on campus, college isn’t just something they’re doing. It becomes their life. W
wish sfsu had more dorms, i really want to experience living on campus before i do my study abroad
Many colleges also publish “degree road maps” that guide students through a course of study. And more colleges are pushing students to take enough classes to graduate in four years, instead of thinking of college as open-ended.
this sounds really helpful and i think having this as one of the options or even having various roadmaps with details would be really helpful. While looking at my major requirements I think i saw different roadmaps which i think is very useful as a guide.
onger allows students to be classified as undeclared, instead assigning everyone a “pre-major” based on the interests they listed on their application.
well i don't know if this is better or not, i mean its good to have a plan ahead and all but assigning a major i don't know if that is a good fit. Even if you are undeclared, you still are exploring.
colleges have lower graduation rates when they enroll more lower-income students, more black and Latino students, more men, more older students and more students with low SAT or ACT scores.
this is my first time seeing gender being correlated to the graduation rate, the facts here aren't that surprising tho. I feel like the lower you income, the less resources you have unless you look into every nook and cranny
. Many lower-income and middle-class students excel in high school only to falter in college. They then struggle to get good jobs.
i feel like there are no institutes that actually teach you about life which is why this happens. In school all we learn is how to calculate, how to write an essay but what about communications and some simple things, how about finance, all these things left out in the system leads to a struggle in finding a job in my opinion.
If struggling schools could learn some lessons from the high performers, tens of thousands more students could graduate from college each year.
yes, give and take, you need to learn from others because you never learn enough by yourself, there is always a way to better it more if that makes sense
About one in three students who enroll in college never earn a degree.
that's kind of scary because all you life you are kind of working all though middle school and high school just so you can go to a college and after enrolling you drop out, that's like you whole life crumbling up. I just can't imagine this for myself because I feel like all this time, college was my goal.
When we paraphrase, we convey an author’s ideas in our own words, but unlike summary paraphrases are the same length as the original text.
I always find it hard to paraphrase because once I read their words, I somehow don't know how to actually say the same thing they are saying in different words.
We can summarize any amount of text and when we do, our summary is always shorter than the original piece of writing
we definitely need to make summary short because it's a summary but coming up with a summary is pretty hard for me. After doing much more writing and reading this, I think I will be able to write shorter summaries.
Summarizing
If we borrow another person’s ideas, language, sentence structures without properly acknowledging them, this is plagiarism and undermines our credibility.
yes giving credit is really important because you, yourself might need to reference back to it sometimes.
What is the most important idea your audience should understand from reading this paragraph or evidence?How does each piece of evidence you state in your paragraph relate to your opinion in your topic sentence?Why did you choose this specific piece textual evidence? How does it support, illustrate, or extend your opinion in your topic sentence?How might you explain the example or connect it to textual evidence further to show the connection between the topic and your opinion in the topic sentence and/or thesis statement?What are some consequences/results/implications/ramifications of the evidence you share with your audience?Why is this evidence important? What does it suggest to you? To your audience?How does this evidence relate to your overall opinion in this paragraph?Is the idea in the topic sentence fully explained? Do you need another sentence or two to elaborate on why you have the opinion you state in the topic sentence?How does this evidence relate to your overall thesis, or other points you make in the paper? Why is this connection worth noting?
all really helpful to look back at when I am writing
Interpret, analyze, and explain the ways in which the evidence, opinion, or textual evidence you have included relates to your opinion in the topic sentence
I feel like it is really important to connect it back to the evidence you have. Sometimes when I am analyzing I tend to analyze the evidence but then start rambling about something else, its not directly connected to the evidence but somehow it is, but stronger connection to the evidence is what I am trying to improve on nowadays.
T–to the E-to the A
This whole TEA is really helpful for me because it helps me get started at least somewhere because I always struggle to start but with TEA, I get to start right away if not the topic sentence but the evidence I want to use which helps me come up with the topic sentence and then the analyzation.
assignment prompt, college writing is different from high school.
so far, it does seem different, more open and more feedback
reading and writing is not for them.
in so many standardized, i always feel bad after i get the answers because what i thought was right in english comes out wrong almost every time.
he Writing Project, an essay project about how your identity has been shaped until now; about who you are before you entered our classrooms.
so far what we are doing in class with identity has really helped me reflect back on my life and think more about who i am not just a student, but a person
Your experiences matter, because who you are as a learner matters. Your identity is shaped by your experiences,
everyone has different experiences so its important to acknowledge that even if you don't have the same experience as others
Once students like you know that you are allowed to have your own voice as an academic write
In english classes, it always feels like there are so many ways but still one because i remember that in my class, we'd write an essay but our thesis statement always had to get approved by our teacher first which felt like we were still going on the path the teacher wanted us to go on.
open perspective
very important wherever you are or whatever you are doing, because a fixed mindset is not gonna help
Before reading the narratives above, why do you think individual experience is important? How can we start to connect experiences in academic settings?
Individual experiences are important because even though we are of the same species, we all look different, do different things yet we are the same. There are many things that differentiate us but brings us together as one as well. But most importantly, we differ from each other though experiences because we come from various backgrounds, backstories but we could all connect through it it too. Event though it might be very different from each other, we could find a common ground to stand or we could even find out about other things from very different perspectives.
“Reading and writing is not for them,” or “Literature is not my thing.”
sadly I feel like this in all my science classes
t has always bothered methat I can think of no way to describeit other than "broken,
there needs to be some kind of way to describe it because it is not broken when you speak a different kind of englsih
I again found myself conscious of theEnglish I was using, the English
I still feel conscious of my english when i am speaking with new people for some reason to this day
Don't judge a book by its coveror someone's intelligence by her English
No matter how much i see this, I feel like i am always judging a book by its cover....But yes judging someone based on their outside or their appearance or anything or even their english is just not right.
My mother wasin the room.
i feel like depending on the person or the audience you have your whole tone can change. I have experienced this in school because when I gave presentations, it depended on the teachers I had and the type of friends or peers I had in the class and most importantly how I felt
Then she began to talk more loudly. "What hewant. I come to New York tell him fiont of his boss,you cheating me?" And I was trying to calm herdown, make her be quiet, while telling the stock-broker. "I can't tolerate any more excuses. If I don'treceive the check immediately, I am going to haveto speak to your manager when I'm in New Yorknext week.
i personally find this amusing because sometime when my mom and aunt talk in english like this and they understand each other, but my sister barely gets what they are saying and in some scenarios, i struggle with this too.
that Asian-American students, as awhole, do significantly better on math achievementtests than on English tests. And this makes methink that there are other Asian-American studentswhose English spoken in the home might also bedescribed as "broken" or "limited."
yes the language barrier itself is the problem. I, myself wasn't confident ever in my english let alone writing. Naturally, my path was paved towards math, but I am not naturally talented on that path rather my mind thinks I could do better on that side because I can already point out the flaws in the filed of english like it not being my mother tongue, the fact that the language is rarely spoken around me at home.
pg.262, Slavery is indeed horrible, plus when you first read it in the other person's perspective after seeing the other side of the perspective, it probably really blew his mind.
pg. 260 he was very determined, in the prison by faking to sleep, he learned all the words. That kind of determination can make you who you want to be.
time is scarce, but how you utilize it depends all upon you
pg. 258 I can really relate to him going through a dictionary! Its a whole new world, you see words you've never seen before and there are some words tha you thought would never exist.
pg.258 2nd para. He was taking action for his goals not just thinking about it.
pg.257
I myself get really frustrated when I am not able to express myself in writing or sometimes when you are trying to say something but it just doesn't come out. It's right there but also not there.
If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong."
you don't have to belong in place. You don't even have to try belong anywhere. For me, I was born in Nepal, but live here but I feel like I belong in a foreign country I've never even been to.
remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess -that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler
just because there is a common ground doesn't mean that you should keep staying there, i don't know if that makes sense but trying to erase your roots for trying to forget your culture isn't something to be proud of. In my own culture, there are some people I know who make their kids speak english all the time and when they grow up, they've already forgotten our own language, the roots all gone and then the parents regret it.
I hear the anger rising in his voice. My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles. 'Tve never seen anything as strong or as stubborn,"
when people see that you have something different, they don't like it.
well-bred girls don't answer back
this one ugh "don't talk back to adults" "you need to respect them" if they don't respect me why should i show mine. I live by a moral that treat the other person the way they want to treated. Talking back doesn't mean that you don't respect them.
Their purpose: to get rid of our accents.
"why don't you have an American accent?" "american accent?" "where are you from?"
I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess -that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp rul
Back in my school in my home country, we'd have to speak english when the head of the school was there because she was trying to help us get better at english and kids always feared being around her because they'd have to speak english around her or they'd be punished.
wow, so they just needed an "english" speaking person when they could've just told her mom, the patient. Just because you don't speak the same way or the same language doesn't mean that you get to treat the other person in a bad way
This right here is really angering me because just because someone doesn't speak perfectly in your language doesn't mean that you get the right to ignore the person or belittle them. What you could do is try to understand them better instead of acting like you don't hear them.
We moved here not too long ago and I can see that my mom definitely understands English but she doesn't speak much English, like she described, she speaks in "broken" English unlike me and my sister. I think its also the environment you are in because my sister and I, we were constantly under an environment where we had to keep speaking English and learn everything in English.
Its funny because because it feels like you know how to speak very many languages. I, myself speak in a different English with my sister compared to my parents and very differently with my friends. My mother tongue is Nepali and even my own language, I speak in various ways. I speak different Nepali with my sister, a very different one with my parents and with my relatives. But at the end of the day I am trying trying to communicate the same things no matter which I speak.
yes, all languages and styles are very beautiful. Since I was young, it was my goal to learn different languages and even though I haven't accomplished that yet I am really excited to learn new languages because it makes me feel like I am able to express myself even more.
Metacognition
i feel like sometimes we are so focused on the other person or the individual's writing or busy giving other people criticism or compliments that we get lost, we forget about ourself. I believe that reflecting back on yourself is also very important.
What do you believe your learning style is? If you were to place yourself on the Zone of Appropriate Challenge and Growth, where has the majority of your education taken place as a learner?
I still don't really know what my learning style really is but I guess I just roll around with whatever. In high school, I thought I was the note type of person but that didn't really work out, then I switched to looking at images or doodling and that was not helpful either. For me, depending on the class, the learning style changes but just having a engaging class or a teacher who will help you in your path has just been helpful to me. Throughout high school, I have been in the growth/comfort zone the most. I have been to the panic zone too but I like to avoid that, I don't like to be in that zone for a long time.
Growth happens when learners work through the appropriate level of challenge
The diagram perfectly describes the zones because in the growth zone there will be some kind of discomfort which will help you take one step further compared to feel very easy in the comfort zone and feeling like you'll get a heart attack in the panic zone. In my opinion, It is best to stay in the growth zone while visiting the panic and comfort zone once in a blue moon.
a single test cannot test everybody’s abilities
YES. this brings back old memories of all those studying/ memorizations.
Learning must be challenging, but everybody has their own level of challenge.
i definitely agree with this statement because we are all from different backgrounds so of course we will be at our own world for learning but if learning isn't challenging its like you are playing this game and you are on level 10 of the game and you ace it and you have the chance to level up to level 11 but you are so good at level 10 that you don't want to advance and are afraid of what is new in the next level. But of course, if you were playing a game this wouldn't be the case, you whole point in the game is to get to a higher level each time because there is no end. And learning should be similar to that, you keep going on and on to better yourself because only you can be the best version of yourself every single day.
why do you think your experience has been like that? What were pros and cons? What ideas from this chapter might have improved your experience?
I would say 2-3 because in my classes such as psychology and math, it was very engaging not 24/7 but most of the time, the teachers didn't just give us a lecture and left us with number of homework of prepare for the next quiz. We had to actively participate in the class with our peers and also with the teacher and mostly in psychology, we would combine our days with lecture and field experiments or act out the experiment process which made the class really engaging. But in most of my other classes throughout high school, I would get materials from my teacher and complete it and give it back to my teacher to grade and prepare for the quiz/ tests and eventually that would determine my grade.
ctive learning through the importance of questioning. Kohn argues that questioning is how students learn best, and challenges the old school learning model, where “Students are expected to do whatever they’re told, to accommodate themselves to a curriculum that was created by adults who never met them” (3). Sound familiar? We hope not, but unfortunately, it is all too familiar to most high school students and something we wish to address in our courses.
Questioning does seem like the way to active learning because if you don't question the material you are reading or just constantly memorizing then you'd have no questions. But that doesn't mean that you are supposed to question everything. And unfortunately this is exactly what happens in most classes throughout high school, you get that huge textbook, study from that, often times memorize what you see in the book and give the quiz or the test and that determines your whole grade one by one and you slowly forget the material as you keep on going because what you did was just look at the book, learn the materials, give a quiz. It wasn't active learning in class either because often time there are only lectures in the class, which is why balance is very important.
both you, the students, and us, the teachers.
both parties benefitting is better for sure
hypothes.is,
so far i have been liking this tool because it lets us express ourselves and lets us interact between not only the teacher and the student but also the among the students freely
earning is not just about reading information and memorizing it, but where what you get out of this text largely depends on the energy you put back into it
this is more like the class we are supposed to be taking because in most of my classes i feel like all i have been doing is just memorization except my math class.
(which requires that students are collaborating with teachers)—as opposed to knowledge or information delivered from the top (where teachers deliver a lecture).
very true! but i do want to say that sometimes lectures work the best too. But if you just focus in one part completely, the balance doesn't work out. I believe it should be balanced between both so the students not only collaborate with the whole class but also get the time to soak in the information given by the teachers.
To properly develop these mindsets, it’s important to start with a fundamental question: What is learning, and how do we learn best?
definitely makes sense to start with this question because yes we all are in the same class and took similar classes before but we all learn differently and knowing how you learn the best or what it is to you, knowing all that for yourself will bring a better outcome. gets you thinking!
Engagement in Active Learning:
very important especially during Zoom university since we are under very different circumstances right now compared to our usual style of learning which is in person.
Engagement in Active Learning: Introduce how this textbook and classroom activities will engage students in active learning as they read, to engage students with interactive experiences during the process of learning and reading.Openness, Flexibility: Prepare your mindset to be flexible and open to new reading and writing situations in college; reinforce the growth mindset model and prepare students with strategies to control their reading and writing growthResponsibility, Metacognition: To reflect on your own learning styles and build strategies for reading and writing based on your individual learning process.
I think that all these are pretty important especially to me as a student because everyone obviously comes from very different styles of learning and writing. And the second one, openness and flexibility very important too, there is always room for growth no matter where are stand right now.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
we all do
So will my page be colored that I write?
I really like this line because of the line in the beginning, "and let that page come out of you--then it will be true".
Essentially, your course grade will be determined by the amount of labor you putinto this class, your self-discipline, goals,and academic habits you build, and your revision processes
I feel like this gives equal opportunities for everyone because as you mentioned earlier not all of us had the same teacher or teachers with same style of grading or teaching so this gives all of us a "fresh start" because it isn't judging us on the language but rather on the effort and habits.
●Regularly contributing your thoughts, experience, stories, and personal knowledge toclass discussions. THREE MAIN WAYS TO INTERACT DURING CLASS:○Share your thoughts “in person” (with camera on or off).○Interact in small groups and together writing in Shared Google Slides orDiscussion Forums on iLearn during and/or after class○Participate in “reading conversations” and shared annotations with myself,your peers, and authors by annotating with Perusall
You value everyone's thoughts and experiences by letting us voice our stories and opinions in different ways. It is not limited to one.
Therefore, this class really is all about you
I can really see that you really value our growth not just as students at SF State but as a person. I keep seeing how you want our story, our personal story to be out there, and see it from different perspectives. Its not about a teacher giving random lectures from time to time, but you want to help us to grow and learn from your teachings.
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