Friday's Assignment

Read the chapter "There is no map" from page 174-187 today.  Then read this article.  How are these people making breakthroughs with no map?  Find one other example of a company or individual who  either currently (or in the past) created their own map.

Leave your explanation of your individual in the comments section below.

Have a great weekend.

For Friday

Check your Google Drive account and see what occupation (yes, it was once an occupation) I shared with you.

Then do the following things:

1.  Find out what that job actually was.  Write a short description of it.

2.  Then explain briefly why it become obsolete.

3.  Go to this link and this link.  See what are the fastest growing jobs in the connected world.  Write a short response about how you see yourself and your future degree fitting into this world.

Please leave all of your responses in the comments section of this blog.

Assignment for Wednesday Part 1

First, watch this video segment from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat and That Used to Be Us.  This is why becoming a linchpin is vital for each of you in the hyper-connected world.





Assignment:  Leave two responses regarding this clip.  Then leave one piece of feedback to another student's response.

Assignment for Wendesday Part 2

Second, watch this short video from Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators.




Assignment:  For this clip, come up with one really good question (after all, that is one of the key skills employers are now seeking) regarding all that we have been studying concerning becoming a Linchpin and excelling in the connected, knowledge economy of the next 50 years.

Then briefly explain which one of the seven skills (Wagner lists them at about the 4 minute mark) today's learners will need that you feel is a strength of yours.  Explain why.

Finally, explain which one of the seven skills is a weakness of yours.  Again, explain why.

Connecting (not collecting) those d*&^n dots

First, watch this video from Thomas Friedman.  Mr. Zutz actually shared this video with our staff this morning. As you watch "Average is Over," which is an excerpt from Friedman's book That Used to Be Us (we read two chapters from it last year).

This short clip illustrates why it's vital for you to evolve into a Linchpin.  Compare what Friedman says in this short talk to Godin's core thesis of becoming a Linchpin.





Second, watch this video from Thomas Friedman later in the same talk.  How do his four pieces of advice for his daughters - and you - correlate to Godin's work (either The Dip or Linchpin)?

 

Friday assignment #1

First,

To add to your discussion points for the first reading assignment of Seth Godin's Linchpin, leave at least one concept, idea, observation, or quote you agree with and leave one that you disagree with.  Please support each one.  

Of course, you can leave more than one response to garner addition points.

Friday assignment #2

Second,

Watch this video of Godin outlining the seven ways to become a linchpin.  Then leave a short response detailing which of the seven ways best fits you right now.

Our loss of wisdom

Watch the first few minutes of this TED Talk (please excuse his political commentary at the very start). Focus on the requirements of the job he discusses.  This ties in to what Godin means when he tells us to be artists, to exert emotional labor, and to do remarkable work.




Then look at the job description I put on each of your tables.  If you were applying for that job, what "soft skills" are vital for those positions?  That is, if you were to apply for that job, how would you turn it into an art form? How would bring emotional labor to it?  How would you turn it into a "remarkable" job?  In other words - to connect (see, connect the dots, right?) to Godin's previous book, The Dip - how would you become "the best in the world" at this job?

Explain that in a brief response in the comments section.  Be sure to include the job title that was at your table.

Stop Stealing Dreams

Watch this video and post 5 observations in the comments section for Thursday.

Remarkable Assignment (due by end of quarter #2)

Here is your remarkable assignment.  This does not need to be performed or presented in front of the class.

    A.  See the suggestions below.


Remarkable assignment --

This does not need to be a big production.  It simply needs to be an example of something you have done or create that is remarkable.

Possibilities (remember, in addition to the remarkable thing itself, you need to present a one page explanation of why it is remarkable.  Simple)

1.  Show me your acceptance letter to the university you plan to attend.

2.  Submit a video of a recital or performance or creation.

   * maybe this is a science experiment or FFA presentation.
   * maybe you hold your breath and solve a Rubics cube (as Dyrud did)
   * maybe you show us a project you have been tinkering or playing around with
   * maybe you helped your dad build a patio and your mother took pictures.  Put that together using
     iMove to show it all coming together.

3.  Submit a prezi or keynote.  See the example below.





4. Submit an essay.  See the one below

2.2.(Barista Revised for Scribd) by teacherscribe

 





5.  Submit a blog, Youtube video, or other multi-media project.  See the example below:




6.  Submit a service project you have done or plan to do.  Maybe you work with the Special Olympics or have a plan to save the world (think Pay it Forward).

7.  Submit a creative project or creation - maybe it's a Lego version of the climax of "Young Goodman Brown" or an original painting or sculpture or an original song or a photograph.

Source: tracymehrkens.wordpress.com via Kurt on Pinterest

You can go here and see better quality pictures.



8.  Submit a remarkable original creative project - think Glossi, easel.ly, Pinterest, thinglink, or you are your words.  My example is below.  I uploaded one of my remarkable creations (my daughter Kenzie Scout) and then I embedded over her image (using youareyourwords.com) my wedding vows (which I wrote myself).

Here is my thesis which earned Thesis of the Year at BSU.

Meeting Myrtle: A Memoir

Please don't be limited to these suggestions.  They are just intended to spark your imagination and widen the realm of possibility.
For more examples, go here.  For more creative examples, go here.

The final remarkable assignment must be submitted to me by the final day of the semester.

Thanks!

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