Category: Humor

Growth Mindset, Humor, Learner's Mindset, Personal, Reflecting

Learners Mindset in Life

The Advisor That Cares

I felt it so necessary to share this recent Hot One‘s interview. The guest’s mindset, David Blaine, is an inspiring living example. I can’t say I’ve followed any of his work, though I’m sure I’ve seen bits and pieces here and there throughout his career. Nonetheless, he shares beautiful nuggets of wisdom. His thoughts on failure. Maybe it is because I’m going through Carol Dweck’s Mindsets again. Still, I felt it necessary to share this learner’s mindset example with anyone who might have read the book and the ADL goals but struggles with living the learner’s mindset. Does everyone feel like it’s one step forward, two steps back, at times? I just keep adding, yet!

Disclaimer: 

This is a blog about my learning journey and my role in education. I am torn about sharing a personal reflection because of the language used. I am battling over whether that is professionally appropriate considering the multi-use purpose of my ePortfolio. I hope that you, the reader, will accept my humble apology if you find the content inappropriate. I also hope you will take this disclaimer and go no further in viewing the content should you be sensitive to cursing.

Warning – NSFW (language)

First We Feast. (2022, September 29). David Blaine Does Magic While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2EbGoXlPQ

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Y is for Yet…

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This read-along undoubtedly meant for grade school children, can help those of us working on developing our growth mindset.

  • A – Ability
  • B – Brain
  • C – Challenges
  • D – Determined
  • E – Effort
  • F – Feedback
  • G – Growth Spurt
  • H – Help
  • I – Imagination
  • J – Journey
  • K – Knowledge
  • L – Learn
  • M – Mindset
  • N – Notice
  • O – Optimism
  • P – Progress
  • Q – Questions
  • R – Resilient
  • S – Setting Goals
  • T – Trying
  • U – Until
  • V – Visualize
  • W – Work
  • X – eXtra
  • Y – Yet
  • Z – Zany

Children’s Read Alouds by Brittany. (2021, September 27). Y IS FOR YET, A Growth Mindset Alphabet – Read Aloud [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XekYdto3JNA

Gardening, Humor, Personal, Reflecting

Gardening, I think I get it now

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Pictured are two hands, wearing light green gloves. In the upturned hands is small vegetation with dirt and some roots.

Let me correct that. I have not yet gotten the hang of gardening per set, but maybe some of the reason behind gardening.

Looking at the flower garden this Spring, I thought surely the perennials in our pollinator garden were overtaken by the carpet grass, weeds, and other pretty little wild blooms of assorted varieties.

However, as I pulled here and yanked there, I would find I kept finding my little foliaged friends, growing and spreading under the cover nature provided. I found myself welcoming them back and legitimately feeling happy they were back.

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Well this is really inconvenient

The Advisor That Cares

As I was reading this weeks assigned reading Moving from Time Management to Engagement Management, I was struck with a really inconvenient fact… My husband, is doing things right!

My husband has a work-life balance approach to projects at home. He believes in working a little, playing a little, working a little more, etc. Whereas I tend to pride myself as a multi-tasking fool.

My husband prefers to work in productivity bursts. He will play a video game while doing laundry so that he pairs something he doesn’t want to do with someone he does.

Whereas I prefer to work endlessly until a job is complete. As I evaluated my engagement management, I realized that I was in fact not managing my time or productivity well.

Permit me to use use house cleaning as an example. I will set out to clean the house and may go to the kitchen cabinet to get a cleaning product, then I may notice that the dishwasher needs to be loaded, so I set the cleaning product down on the counter and proceed to load the dishwasher. After washing my hands I may decide that the hand towel needs to be washed so I’ll go start a load of laundry in the washing machine, finally returning to the cleaning product I retrieved from the kitchen cabinet to go wipe down the bathroom counter, and on and on.

I admittedly get frustrated at his play breaks because in my mind just getting it all done in one fell swoop must be more productive. But now I realize that “finding a balance in these types of energy use and replenishment is the key to […] productivity and performance” (Harapnuik, 2021).

Harapnuik, D. (2021, January 4). Moving from Time Management to Engagement Management. Harapnuik.org. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=8494

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Collecting Knowledge vs. Learning

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“Now What” from Ryan George reminded me of the topics we have been exploring through the ADL program. We are talking about how accumulating knowledge (collecting dots) is not at all the same thing as learning (connecting dots). Evaluation of the education systems as a whole shows that obtainment of a degree does not necessarily lead to guaranteed employment as painfully illustrated by generation jobless.

References

Bazzi Bazzi. (2022, January 12). Doc Zone Generation Jobless [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4xoYmgatQ

Harapnuik, D. (2021a, January 18). Collecting dots vs connecting dots. https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=8672In-text citation

Harapnuik, D. (2021b, January 28). Applied Digital Learning. https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=8517

Learners Mindset. (2021, January 18). Collecting dots vs connecting dots [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7o3Jh1KZLw

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Down the Rabbit Trail

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I swear I get so lost along the way because I click, click, click, and go deeper down the rabbit trail. I’m struggling this week because I have followed so many links, watched content from this week’s posts/discussions, and prepared for next week’s content. Now I sit here with my notebook full of notes, and I cannot remember which content I am supposed to be posting about in my discussions and blogs. I guess I am missing the point since it all contributes to my learning.