So, how do you take charge of your learning?

We must have a growth mindset in order to take charge of our learning. 
We should ask questions, try to improve, and learn from mistakes.
We must also have grit. 
Grit is having a strong character and the courage to work hard.
We must be motivated to do well and we must persevere to reach success. 
We must always try to stay organized and keep our learning consistent. 
We must also be okay with failing in order to improve. 
We should also try to reach our goals. 

Teachers can help us through teaching us strategies, to motivate us, organize us, and keep us in tact. They can also clarify things for us. They can be fair with us. They can also give clear instructions and expectations (within reason).

Are you controlled by technology?

Are you controlled by technology?

Yes, somewhat. I feel like technology is what I turn to most of the time when I am bored. I also feel like technology has the power to make me sad or happy. It can also distract me from doing important things. I don't think I should be controlled by it, though. I try not to let it too much.

Difference between face to face and texting
Texting: It helps us sometimes say things we wouldn't be able to out loud. We feel more comfortable. It doesn't really let personality shine out all the time.

F to F: We get to joke more and laugh. We can see each others facial expressions.

How do you take control of your learning?

Elements of close/annotated reading
1. How do you infer?
2. How do you generate high level questions?
3. Making connections

• Text to text
• T to world
• T to self

What's the system for letting migrators into a country?

Must there be specific reasons?

Where is the most often migrated to country?

Do people usually migrate as refugees?

Questions Are the New Answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ALlGU2GYbk

He says:
Questions are survival skills for all of us
Questions enable us to organize our thinking around what we don't know
The older you get, the less questions you ask
There's almost no value placed in good questions, only good answers
Thinking in questions

Making Inferences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to30AJm2epQ

Big ideas:
Inferences are used in everyday life and on the internet
Writers want us to think a little about what we are reading


She's sick
She is tired
She's drinking a hot drink

Motivation: What does it look like?

"Gritty people use passion to produce persistence towards a long-term goal."

Kindergarten Response

The way this kindergarten has been created seems to me, to be for the most part a great thing. Through having a circle where different ages get taught and can wander, befriend, and get to know anyone seems like a great practice for unity. It teaches children not to see boundaries all the time. We're all just living in the same world, doing different things, but together. I think it might possibly be a little bit distracting, but I think since they've grown in the environment, they've learned not be disrupted by others. In my own kindergarten, I remember we would sometimes play with people from other age groups, but most generally not. I wish could have felt comfortable around so many people, that might have affected me to this day.

What is My Sentence

https://vimeo.com/8480171

What is my sentence?
Was I better today than I was yesterday?

My sentence is trying to always be kind and helpful.

Today I was better than yesterday. Instead of being unproductive, I did homework and helped make breakfast for all of my friends. (today being Wednesday.)

3 Criteria

1. A good color scheme, or nice combination of colors.

2. Appropriate quality depending on the situation or mood.

3. Meaningful contents.

Rubric anaylzing

A Rubric for Evaluating Your Blogs

Adapted from https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html

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Criteria	Not yet 75%	Meets expectations. Proficient. You can. 85%	Wow! Goes beyond expectations 95%
Content (big ideas) and Creativity	Postings show little evidence of reflective thought about the topic. No or few supporting images, links to websites and embedded videos.	Postings provide thought and reflective thought about the topic. Postings are supported by many effective images, links to websites and embedded videos.	Postings provide insight and reflective thought.  They are supported by effective images, links to websites and other documents as well as embedded video.  These enhance the information presented. The writer makes personal, textual and world connections and asks new, related questions.
Text layout, cites images etc. and provides captions. Adds tags.	Acknowledges and cites a few images and multimedia sources. Does not provide captions. Does not provide tags.	Acknowledges and cites most image and multimedia sources with captions or annotations. Provides some tags.	Acknowledges and cites all image and multimedia sources with captions or annotations. Topics are tagged appropriately.
Grammar Usage Mechanics (GUM)	No evidence of revision. Written responses are random and contain many errors that prevent the reader from understanding the content.	Evidence of some revision. Written responses show some organization and contain some errors.  However, the reader can understand the big ideas.	The responses are well organized with very few grammatical errors.

I think my blog is doing pretty well right now. I always embed videos and try to reflect a good amount. I think my writing is pretty good and grammatically correct.

Why do videos go viral?

Ted Talk about viral videos. 


The sneezing panda :)

Commercials

In this advertisement, we see a man and woman that see one another and suddenly start to undress. You are confused, and then they jump onto each other, and then they transition into sushi.

What I like about this ad is that you don't understand what is going on, you don't even know what the ad is about. Then at the end you're like, oh, I get it now. I like that it has humour. The next time you will see that sushi, you'll think of the ad and want to buy the product.

Key words from Ted Talk.
Why did people care when Joshua Bell played the violin in an arena, but not when he played at the train station.
3 means of persuasion: Logos (logic), ethos (reputation), pathos (emotional connection.)

Chevy Commercial 

They make it somewhat emotional by making it sentimental, through telling about the generations who've had these cars before them. They are showing through all these people who work a lot with their cars, that they will last forever. There is patriotic music in the background to indicate that it's for Americans.


Ben and Jerry's vs. Haagen dazs

How to Pick Your News

When elders hear that you can pick your news, they feel it's odd considering that before everything was written in physical copies. Everything was forced on us.
Sometimes the news aren't reliable. They might be tainted by media cooperations and corruption. It is important to go back to get the original news that hasn't been affected.
Check a few times a day, but not every minute. Let things unfold in time.
You must know how to separate fact from opinion. Look for words like, think, likely, etc.
Make sure your news is supported and legitimate before spreading it.

I think a big idea from this clip is to be aware that not everything on the news is completely true. We need to have techniques to figure out when something has been altered and when it is true fact. We can't just blindly believe everything we read.

You are what you read

What does it mean to be literate/illiterate?
It means to not be able to analyze writing and appreciate it properly.


How do our reading experience shape who we are?
Reading often shape people into who they are, because in books, there are so many themes and mind stretching ideas that make us understand things related to life. These things affect us and inspire us to become different people.

Visual Literacy

How do you make sense of what you see when you look at an image?

How Photography Connects Us Summary

In the Ted talk, David Griffin elaborates on how photography connects us as humans. What photography does is it emulates a moment. It freezes it. Through your image, you’ll be able to tell a story through that moment. We can tell a story of pain, happiness, conflict, adventure, world issues, and so much more. Sometimes a symbol might be present in order to give a deeper meaning of the situation. Through pictures, we can sympathize or empathize. We are connected through the world in the pictures. We feel with the pictures.

Dead Poet Society In this video, the teacher talks about how we need to think for ourselves. That our words matter.

There are many reasons why we should read. When we read we are learning about ideas and the world - things that might matter in our life or in someone else's. When we read our grammar, writing, and fluency improve, too. Reading is also somewhere you can go when you don't want to simply focus on your own life. You can escape into other worlds.

How do you take control of your own learning?

Duckworth's video revolved around grit. She tells us that it isn't really about intelligence as such, or being born extraordinary. It's about having the will to learn, being excited and passionate about it. This is something that we need to have over a longer period of time.
In the old Apple commercial, before Apple became the norm for everyone, it shows us that we should think differently. It shows all the famous people who didn't think the same way as everyone else, and accomplished amazing things.
Michael Jordan says in a video that the reason he's become so successful is due to all the times that he failed, and improved because of it.
Also, this man talks about growth mindset.