Highly Cynical Seminar

Honors Survey- Please take this if you plan on doing Honors this year!

​Starter 4- How to get better at the things you care about

1. What are the differences between the learning and performance zone?
2. When you are at school, do you feel like you are generally in the learning or performance zone?  Why?
3. What do we need to do in our classroom to allow you to spend time in the learning zone?  What kinds of skills do you want to get better at this year?

SEMINAR on "Habits of Highly Cynical People"
Seminar Style:

1. 2 circles with extra chairs in the middle
2. We’ll switch every 10-15 minutes
3. Feel free to jump into chairs in the middle at any point- for 30 seconds or the whole seminar, it doesn’t matter
4. Note-taking is highly encouraged! You'll be able to use these notes for next week's in class essay.
5. Credit/no credit (learning zone!).  Must speak at least once, and be listening attentively to get credit.

​Seminar Synthesis
Take 10 minutes.  In your notes, jot down your main takeaways from this seminar.  Think especially on: How can this article help us to create or envision a sustainable classroom?
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Intro to  Technology in the classroom mini-study

• Open the above linked document and SAVE a copy!
• Highlight the instructions
• Make a note of the deadline wherever you keep track of your assignments.
• Skim through the readings-- highlight the required ones in RED and look at the descriptions of the optional ones.  
• Note:  Audio ones have transcripts you can read if you'd prefer to read along.....
• What questions or clarifications do you have about the assignment?
• If you want to PRINT these to read and annotate, I highly encourage you to do so!

End of class: We'll listen to Episode 1 from the Attention, Please TED Radio hour Podcast: "How is our attention packaged and sold as a commodity?"

• This is part of our "In Search of a Sustainable Classroom" mini-study
• Take notes on this podcast to help you answer our essential question for this unit: What makes for the most sustainable classroom culture and environment?  Some questions to consider include......

1. ​In what ways does this podcast argue our attention is a commodity?
2. What are the consequences of that?
3. What are the implications for your own personal, intellectual well-being?
4. What are the implications for our societal well-being?
5. What are the implications for our CLASS well-being or for any classroom's well-being?

HOMEWORK:  Spend 30 minutes reading and taking notes from the technology articles in the document linked above.  I suggest you focus on the REQUIRED articles first!