A Poem for The Minds Within instead of A Poem for Two Voices…. Clever Terry, as always.

Workflow: a photo, a memory, a bit of each— into reworked words, seldom profound, but always a release.

A thought, a note, an addendum, a delete, a change, review, repeat

I tried the bold/italic thing for my poem, but the site and the platforms changed it. So I used quotes “on yours” and tilde ~ on mine~ Which worked no matter the site or platform.

Like life these days

10 minute muse, an updated Peter Elbow :)

You know Red Skelton did this every day— I forget all if it when we enjoyed an accidental breakfast together— but a few things each night: something interesting, something humorous, a bit of news. It provided the content of his shows, like you find the content of your life and your poetry. :)

Reminding each other our neighbors [literally], though different, live and learn with us and add to our communities. Locally, we may solve something to help globally.

And/or the ways the community has worked to solve problems. Did the city build a bridge to connect communities? Add a school? a hospital? Public utilities? There are lots of "we" things to consider.

Again, I see this article's ideas have been turned upside down with the current rhetoric. One's own place [rural, conservative] over global [diverse cities/acceptance of others]. Instead of valuing one's own place and seeing that value in other places, the fear mentality is that "you are taking from "my" place. Somehow, we have tipped our thinking inward, instead of outward acceptance and belonging to a bigger world.

Today, the issue is "reading MY world always precedes reading the word".... It's "our" world.

look at all the books: https://www.fastcompany.com/90275343/why-you-should-surround-yourself-with-more-books-than-youll-ever-have-time-to-read

of which there are many like the forest ever growing sprouting out and anew my mind ever knowing the words I never knew

I tried to look up info for WA State at census.gov and found the site unavailable due to the shut down and no funding. It will be very difficult if the politics of this country eliminates our access to accurate data.

https://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/interactive/cedr/cdr.html?s_appName=saipe&map_yearSelector=2013&map_geoSelector=aa_c&s_state=53&s_measures=aa_snc&menu=map_proxy

i did find a 2016 Seattle Times pdf that identifies important information about Washington Tribes, including the good things that are happening -- which could be places to start: What's there now? It also provides ideas on how to connect with the people and places. http://nie.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/WIGA_10-16-16_8PageTab_final.pdf

I find this article to be neglectful of our own agency -- that we learn and bring back to our own family and community that which helps us live and work together. And this paragraph holds most meaning to me-- and it reminded me of Sitting Bull who said, "When you find something good on the whiteman’s road, pick it up; but when you find something bad, or it turns out bad, drop it and leave it alone." https://flic.kr/p/NMPuKG

There are many truths within all of these [I found page 7 of the most interest]. I think about the propaganda that is permeating our online discourse-- and I think we all are getting smarter in our engagement or refusal to do so. And I see more polite disagreement recently. Because, with time, we strive for truth, even when we must revise our own thinking. We choose, no matter what is forced or imposed. Education matters. Schools matter. And learners take that which best benefits them. We see in schools kids not learning that which they deem not relevant-- so the transformation will come from the students expectations, I think. Consider the whole of our world, and what people have done with what they have learned. I don't think the hidden agenda, if there is one, works quite like these academics think -- when we consider the progress -- and how we are overcoming any back steps -- that exists in the world.

Education is not just school: it's wherever we are and how we connect with others to understand it.

"If the dominant medium advantages processes that are fast, multi-task oriented and well-suited for large volumes of information, like the current digital medium, so will the reading circuit. " I'm not sure this is accurate. This is saying that the medium changes us, when it is our purpose that changes us. Do I find myself skimming more? Yes -- and reading faster than ever-- but then finding other information to verify, evaluate, and analyze based on what I need to know to understand.

"If the dominant medium advantages processes that are fast, multi-task oriented and well-suited for large volumes of information, like the current digital medium, so will the reading circuit. " I'm not sure this is accurate. This is saying that the medium changes us, when it is our purpose that changes us. Do I find myself skimming more? Yes -- and reading faster than ever-- but then finding other information to verify, evaluate, and analyze based on what I need to know to understand.

As mentioned before: if schools are teaching reading, but not digital reading, are we promoting this negative disruption?

A year after I retired, the school changed so that students turn their devices in to the office. Sigh.

This quote needs an image too. So true.

Reminds me of the umbrella questions, the essential questions I asked of my students throughout the year as they created and presented text media:

How do researchers investigate successfully? What strategies and processes do collaborators need for success? How do readers and writers determine and develop relevant, accurate, and complete topics? How do publishers design and organize content for their audience and purpose? Why and how do editors and speakers use and edit with the rules for standard English grammar and language ?

By examining the media we see, we found ways to create our messages, and could develop and understand those questions as our own as authors and publishers.

One year during the beginning of word clouds, two of my students created a project for the rest of the class -- paragraphs honoring veterans also presented as word clouds -- but explaining their organization, layout, colors, fonts, and word choice. What would work best to enhance the message. I thought that was clever of them.

contribute thoughtfully, connect kindly, and go boldly... I think Troy's words here are the umbrella goal. Don't you?

Perhaps because I studied Calkins and Atwell, with an emphasis in the work of James Moffett, a transition through workshop to applying technology was easier than for those who had not, and still have not, experienced the personal and individual nature of a writer. The emphasis is on the writer as a writer.

My first "liberation," I think, was researching through gopher in dial-up. Wow-- I thought I was in heaven finding info from my small town without needing to find a big town library.

"think rich and live poor" -- I thought this was a great line, until I realized that I don't think like "rich" people-- I don't have the knowledge and resources they do; I live under the knowledge and resources of the middle class, and that's not the same thinking.

Is this the new policy in the US --- education of a few and control of many? [school to prison pipeline?]

How do you unpack this whole paragraph? So, fortunately for my students who lack the experiences of most middle class children, many also have rich experiences in their cultural and historical past, in providing for their families through hunting and fishing, in caring for their elders first. They have knowledge most don't. Unfortunately, lack of opportunities for jobs and easy access to the negatives of society hinder healthy choices. But again, this again focuses on the learning goals and agency of each learner.

exactly: these are the "mandates" that the top-down "experts" demand, yet it is the local that knows the students.

What is the measurement? And we know school is not the solution to the situation outside of school that keeps people from improving. This goes back to my first comment in this stream. I think where this could be heading is that the local communities need to be more active in developing their communities-- accepting and open communities.

What am I missing here? The poor shouldn't receive health care? Going to the doctor makes you more dependent on the doctor? People aren't helping each other on what they can in their communities?

My classes often discussed the "hidden rules" of how the world works. As a minority, my students know the rules are not the same for everyone---yet, we can understand and work around hidden rules to succeed.

Hmmm. Looking at this statement that wants the opposite of institutionalization [yet the next sentence still says "create institutions"] but in today's American political world, the values of acceptance and tolerance are thrown out; the policies of discrimination and fear-mongering are implemented against noncitizen and "the others" in dehumanizing efforts to elevate a certain group. So, will this paper offer a way to counter this? Is this what other countries must do to maintain an open, accepting, peaceful society? [Sorry to bring this up, but I just read about ICE and Greyhound collaborating without warrants to arrest human beings. ICE is operating on an institutional change against humanity.]

My initial thoughts in this paragraph is back to "you get out what you put in" and "put in for what you want and need." So, though the institution has one goal, the individual participates for his/her own goals. Unfortunately, the measurement of success is for the institution's goals, despite the individual goals, and so that creates a seeming lack of success and, therefore, mandates for improvement that then change the institution's focus and the ability for the individual to meet his/her goals.

This crow called to me; I had to zoom in too much, but I loved the lines and spaces within the rule of thirds. https://flic.kr/p/245A9sn

I loved the light dancing on the water, a balance of the sky in the distance. I had to do some cloud waiting and several attempts before I caught the light close to me and some farther down river. https://flic.kr/p/FWy669

I tried to get close to the orange leaf barely hanging on to the branch, dangling in the twigs and sky. https://flic.kr/p/FWy3gb

Chasing dog with leash... ok. back. I'm not an expert here, but I have annotated with Diigo, which is not a dog.

What happens on that site. Art as history, story. It's up to us to draw the collective stories of today to take the currents of destruction and anchor human values of sharing and caring.

Anchor, holding the drifting in place. In 2017, America has lost the anchor for communication-- where lies and bullying become the current pulling us away from our values.

Art as narrative, as story, as story of people = history

Many of the programs and research downplayed constructivist education. A Nation at Risk. No Child Left Behind. It's difficult to write a "program" to sell for constructivism. Once that mindset is so public, it's difficult to create a different path, although we who believe have never given up.

Those of us who see forward believe this; in the factory model schools, teachers see no reason to share. I fear this is still more common than not.

Unfortunately, that then extends to students. School is artificial with little authenticity.