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ALL hybrid students are welcome to eat breakfast and lunch FREE at CHS!
ALL hybrid students are welcome to eat breakfast and lunch FREE at CHS!
How? Go to the food line. Get your food. Enjoy!
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November: Thinking Flexibly & Metacognition
November: Thinking Flexibly & Metacognition
Thinking Flexibly:
Thinking Flexibly:
Being able to change perspectives, generate alternatives, consider options
Being able to change perspectives, generate alternatives, consider options
Metacognition:
Metacognition:
Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effects on others
Being aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effects on others
Why are these important Habits of Mind?
Why are these important Habits of Mind?
B6 Homeroom Monday, Nov 30
B6 Homeroom Monday, Nov 30
Evaluate your own metacognition skills. Is the metacognitive cycle a habit for you? What can you do to continue to build these skills?
Assess the task
Evaluate strengths and weaknesses
Plan the approach
Apply strategies
Reflect
Think about your Thinking
How can you use your metacognitive skills to recognize and analyze implicit bias in media?
Strengthening metacognitive skills widens perspective and self-analysis. The use of Artificial Intelligence is growing. THIS HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ARTICLE (high fact reporting least biased rating) talks about the need for diversity in thought and training in the STEM field. THIS NIEMAN REPORTS (Center media bias rating) feature talks about implicit bias in journalism.
Instruction:
Review the Flexible Thinking Resources
Making Connections: How are Flexible Thinking and Metacognition relevant to this class? What can we do to recognize and grow these skills?
Make a plan: What will you do TODAY to feel successful THIS WEEK
Guided Discussion B6 Monday 11.30.20
Habits are things you do automatically. Think about some habits you already have. Thinking about Thinking is a habit you can develop.
By exploring our thinking and reflecting on our actions, we can decide how different approaches to problems produce different results. Self-reflection or Thinking about Thinking is a Habit that most people need to develop. It isn’t automatically something people do, but it can become a habit and it’s a good one to have.
What is a habit you have or have had that helped you, for example, do a job well or be in a relationship? What would it be like if we had good thinking habits that helped us grow? Give examples of what you think about when you are planning to do something or make a decision. What would it be like if we had thinking habits that automatically helped us think about the impact of our choices before we acted?
What does it look like to Think about Thinking?
Asking yourself questions
Developing mental maps
Mentally rehearsing
Checking and adjusting actions as needed
Reflecting and evaluating
What does it look like for you?
Ain't I a Woman?
Where did this quote originate? Click on the website below to learn about Sojourner Truth.
Tech Tip: Media Bias
Tech Tip: Media Bias
Explore Allsides to find media bias ratings for a news source or fact check a headline
Explore FactCheck.org to search for bias and validity of news stories
Explore your @SenatorsLibrary for Media Literacy and Research resources
A5 Homeroom Monday, Nov 16
A5 Homeroom Monday, Nov 16
A Chance to Be || a poetry film ft. Evan Lowe
A Chance to Be || a poetry film ft. Evan Lowe
I am because we are.
How is this poetry film representative of flexible thinking?
What does it mean to be human? Is it your race? Gender? Socioeconomic status? Or is it that we all have emotions; we all hurt; we all celebrate? How does the outward appearance of a person change how we think about them as a human?
How can flexible thinking help to choose kindness and see each other as human beings deserving of respect and love?
Flex Your Thinking
Flex Your Thinking
Are you a big picture or a details thinker?
What are the positives and negatives of this type of thinking?
Practice flexible thinking with a jigsaw puzzle
Instruction:
Review the Flexible Thinking Resource for the week.
Making Connections: How are Flexible Thinking and Metacognition relevant to this class? What can we do to recognize and grow these skills?
Make a plan: What will you do TODAY to feel successful THIS WEEK
Guided Discussion A5 Monday 11.16.20
Thinking Flexibly requires:
Altering our perspective and seeing things from another’s point of view
Seeing the big picture Seeing the details
Starting at the end point and working backward
Flexible thinkers:
Change their minds as they get new information
Use different ways to solve problems
Move between looking at the big picture and paying attention to details
Use new approaches from different angles (lateral thinking)
Think from alternate points of view at the same time
Practice this skill
Think about a decision you recently made (or will be making) that is difficult.
What are the options? Are the options realistic? Do I need help?
Do I have the information I need to make a good decision?
What are the benefits to me of each option?
Try using the SODAS technique: (Situation, Options, Disadvantages, Advantages, and Solution)
Define the problem or Situation (S)
What are the choices or Options (O)
What are the Disadvantages of each option(D)
What are the Advantages of each option (A)
Select the best option or Solution (S)
Adulting 101
The Carson City Library is hosting "Adulting 101" workshops for teens. What do you need to know before taking on the world? Share your idea here: http://bit.ly/CCLProgramSuggestions
Flexible Thinking:
1. What does it mean to think flexibly?
2. Where have you seen flexible thinking (or not) in school and what were the outcomes?
3. What blocks flexible thinking?
Metacognition:
1. What situations or emotions limit your thinking?
2. How do you examine your thinking and the consequences of your thinking?
3. Who helps you think through problems? Who do you depend on to help facilitate your own metacognition? Describe the helpful behaviors when someone helps you think.
Guided Discussion B4 Monday 11.09.20
Same but different …. How to improve cognitive flexibility
Think about your day. What challenges might you face? How might you do take on a challenge using “same but different” approach? How else might you accomplish your goal?
When we set goals, we typically think about the process of completion from beginning to end. Instead, begin with the end in mind. Think about the finish line and what that goal ultimately looks like once it’s completed. For example, if your goal is to celebrate an event, how might you do this in a different way to maintain safety such as social distancing?
Set aside time to express gratitude, and discuss how being grateful differs from being thankful. Grateful means appreciating what we have, whereas thankful means appreciating things others have given us.
Play games that require flexible thinking. How about a virtual escape room? Or a puzzle?
A3 Homeroom Monday, Nov 2
A3 Homeroom Monday, Nov 2
How might perspective alter perception?
Tech Tip 11.02.20
Tech Tip 11.02.20
Mentimeter Interactive Presentations
How are you feeling today? Click here! https://www.menti.com/xj2qci4rxt
Learning to Think Flexibly
Additional Resources
How might you use convergent or divergent thinking?
What do perspective and flexible thinking have in common?
Quotes: Find a quote or choose one below and explain how it exemplifies the topic of Flexible Thinking.
“ We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein, Physicist
“ Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.” — Knute Rockne, Football Coach
"The mind once expanded never returns to its original shape.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Blessed be the flexible for they are never bent out of shape.” — Michael McGriff
“I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say ‘We’ll just have to see’.” —Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary highjump technique.
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