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Ingenuity in Education

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Learning from a Barefoot Movement  a TED talk about a school started in India where only the dropouts were excepted and those with degrees were rejected. This school is where illiterate people came to become engineers and architects. All I can say about this for now is that it blew my mind and made me so proud of humanity. I do not believe that we give humanity enough credit for what they are capable of. Here is America, the land of the great, we put so many labels on everything that we do not believe in anything that steps out of the box we've placed around it. Go watch this TED talk. Watch it and then tell me your thoughts on how we define education and professionalism here in America. Also, after watching it can you honestly say that you've not bought into our cultural belief that men are the engineers and go-getters of communities? Innovation in education is starting all around the world yet here is America we struggle to with getting our kids to stay in school. This video ...
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Ingenuity in Education

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I've been doing some research on ingenuity in education systems. I've just watched two incredible examples of unique education. The first is called My Wish: Once Upon a School. This is a TED talk of a man who decides to help kids in his community get one on one tutoring. So he sets up a unique publishing house where writers from the community would be coming in and out and a tutoring center where kids could be working in the same space a publishers, writers, and their interns where. These kids could then learn from and get personal one on one help with their homework from people who are working in the field that these kids might one day be in. I think this is an incredible way of learning because the students are not separated form the work space that they one day might fill. They are working side by side with those who have been where they are. They can seek the advice of all levels of educated people. This is a place where schooling and learning is taking place in a way that...
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Shame and Vulnerability

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Brene Brown is a shame researcher. She has spent her life defining shame and its symptoms. Not only that but she offers solutions on how to get out of shame and to accept vulnerability. In her TED Talk The Power of Vulnerability she defines shame as "The fear of disconnection." We all need connection with others and yet we are terrified of reaching out and being rejected. This is were vulnerability comes in. We have to be vulnerable with others in a very honest way in order to have connection. But are we? Do we know how to be vulnerable? Do you know how to acknowledge your fears and shame and be open about those things, and take responsibility for them? Do we believe we are worthy of connection? There are too many people out there who have so much shame of who they are that they do not believe they are worthy of being loved and feeling belonging. We have to get out of our heads and stop lashing out every time we come close to being vulnerable. We have to have courage, we m...
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