Today in class, we spoke about two different topics. The first was in helping raise new generations of young people how do we:
- help them do well for themselves and do good in the world
- how to support students and ourselves with the anxieties of our times?
- how to avoid chasing the "hot issue of the day"?
I had brought up that the issues in our world today are so global, and there are so many that it can really stress students out. They are constantly receiving information through their technology and social medias that it can be very overwhelming as a new teenager learning to become their own person. The amount of opinions online can sway them very easily. I suggested bringing students to a more local place to help ground them. Lisa mentioned that in the reading, there was the class of students that as part of their homework was to use a local issue that had happened, do research on it, and give ideas to help. This can help students feel as though they are important and that they can make a difference as long as they are doing small things to help their community.
The second topic that we spoke on was the "formatting power" of math, physics, stories, and implicit stories and assumptions. Some ideas that Lisa, Christine, and I brought up included recreational math, creating more choices in problems, the assumption of having to memorize things in math, exactness, and that math is universal. Adding recreational math can help students find the fun in math instead of it feeling like a chore. This can include sudoku, and other problems of the sort. Making math problems that are a choose your own story format can make students feel like they have a choice in math instead of there being only one correct way of solving problems, and can lead them to learning how to apply new ideas.
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