Welcome to HPA
Social Sciences
Let’s get started!!
The study of human behaviour
Past & Present
CHC2D - Canadian history of the 20th century
HSP3U - Intro to Anthro, Psych & Soc
HHG4M - Human growth and
development throughout the lifespan
HSB4U - society challenge & change
But before we look at the content…...
Knowledge: What school was created for….
Skills: Millenials and gen z...
Problem: school system does not match society
Problem:society & school has failed millennials & gen z
CUrrent issue:Generation jobless cbc doc zone
Let’s see what you are up against!!
Why are we even in school? Isn’t it suppose to prepare us for the future?
According to CBC Doc Zone Generation Jobless Millennials need to learn:
The reality of the job market is that by the time the avg person turns 30 year old they will have between 200 - 300 projects.
Our society is becoming a project based society.
Employers are looking for young adults that have different degrees but are intersected with TECHNOLOGY.
Canadian millennials need to become more creative in creating their own jobs.
According to Forbes Magazine Millennials need to have learned:
Click here for the full article.
Top employers say millennials need these 4 skills in 2017
Forbes magazine Jan. 6, 2017
Attention
More than College
Top employers say millennials need these 4 skills in 2017
Forbes magazine Jan. 6, 2017
Agility
Humility
Collecting data: What are the current problems with our education system?
Prince EA - I sued the school system
Changing School Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson
Who Own’s the Learning - Alan November
Growth Mindset - Carol Dweck
Constraints of the Ontario Education System
Prince ea i sued the school system
Sir Ken Robinson
Changing Paradigms
Alan November - Who owns the learning?
How to help every child fulfil their potential
Carol Dweck
Confines of the ontario education system &ocdsb
Solutions from experts
How do we change this? How do we prepare you for the real world of today?
Daniel Pink - Motivation (Choose what you want learn)
Harvard AP50 - Student Centred Physics (Genius Hour)
Elon Musk - How to Solve a Problem - (Problem Solving)
Authentic Audience Alan November (Doing things for a Purpose)
Ryan Holmes & Alan November Bridging the Social Media Gap (Learning to use Google & Twitter)
Angela Duckworth - GRIT (Failing & Perseverance and Never giving up)
DAn Pink - Drive
Three things that motivate people to produce high quality work are:
In AP 50, students own their education Introductory applied physics sequence reinvents classroom learning, engaging students from all fields
Grounded in a teaching philosophy that banishes lectures and encourages hands-on exploration, the course represents a collection of best practices gleaned from decades of teaching experience and studious visits to college physics classrooms nationwide.
“For today's knowledge-based economy, it’s not so much what you know, but what you do with what you know,” says Koleci.
“Each project is sort of like a Trojan horse,” says Mazur. “I don’t tell them, ‘You should learn kinematics or momentum,’ no. The project requires them to learn kinematics and momentum; otherwise they can’t do it.”
On homework assignments, students are graded according to how well they approach each problem, and how thoughtfully they reflect on any errors afterward. There is also no printed textbook: instead, a free, collaborative, online text lets students annotate their reading on laptops and tablets and engage in online discussions after class.
Once a month project fair
Elon musk
Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/; born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor,[9][10]engineer,[11] and inventor.[12][13][14][15]
He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Motors; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and founder of X.com which merged with PayPal of Confinity.[16][17][18][19] As of June 2016, he has an estimated net worth of US$11.5 billion, making him the 83rd wealthiest person in the world.[20] In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.[21]
Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.[22]His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multiplanetary"[23][24] by setting up a human colony on Mars.
In addition to his primary business pursuits, he has also envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.[25][26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Elon musk on education
Alan november and authentic audience written by david truss 2008
“Students will work harder for an authentic audience than for a grade”…”Students will do more if they leave a legacy beyond a grade.” (Truss)
Students often ask, what do we need to do to get an A - if students ask that and you tell them what to do they won't go past it like they would with an authentic audience - creates an artificial external reward system. (November)
Think of how you would change what you do when your audience changes??
…Our audience matters, wouldn’t it make sense that this is true for our students too?
And the audience is out there on the web… from experts to parents to peers to billions of internet users.
Alan november who owns the learning?
Technology that we are buying is freezing a culture in place that does not deserve to stay the same - technology is like the $1000 pencil plan - doing the same stuff with technology, all this technology and we are not using it to the full potential
We need to show students how to use google properly - HS students look at the top screen of the results, they do not change search engines.
We need to challenge the learner to ask themselves what is missing - you need to make sure that you look from different perspectives.
The real revolution is the information, not the device.
We need more global communication and thinking on the web.
Teach students about country codes so that they can get information from different perspectives
work on wording your search appropriately - use wikipedia to learn how to design your search - teach people to think first.
Alan november
Who Owns the Learning Video Lecture University of West Georgia Dec 5, 2014
“We are NOT educating for the internet even though it is the dominant medium of society we are still teaching as if paper is still the dominant medium of society.”
Inside the growing social media skills gap
ryan holmes
Hootsuite ceo
jan. 21, 2016
STATS
On Feb. 4, 2004 a handful of Harvard students logged onto thefacebook.com and 12 years later some 2 billion people - nearly a third of the planet’s population - are social media users.
¾ of consumers who now say social media influences their buying decisions.
Nearly 90% of US companies are currently using Twitter, Facebook and other networks jockeying for their share of estimated 1.3 trillion in value that social media stands to unlock.
The problem???
Education programs are lagging seriously behind(Holmes)...AND
The number of job descriptions on Indeed.com mentioning social media skills is booming: "[We’re] seeing this demand span many levels, from executive assistants to senior vice presidents," Amy Crow, Indeed’s then communication director told Quartz a few years ago.(Holmes)
just because you use social media doesn’t mean you know how to use it properly,r. chambers
"Because somebody grows up being a social media native, it doesn’t make them an expert in using social media at work," Ward says. "That’s like saying, ‘I grew up with a fax machine, so that makes me an expert in business.’" (Holmes)
Angela duckworth
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance.
My solution to this issue
Essential Life Skills
Risk Taking & Failure
Inquiry Process
Research Skills
Genius Hour
Social Media
Desired Outcomes
As we make our way through the course content on the 20th Century, Anthro, psych & soc, human growth & development, society challenged & change
our ultimate goal is to work on the skills below.
Learning to Learn
Learning to Think
Learning to Listen & Tell
Learning to Collaborate
Desired Outcomes
Learning to Earn & Give
Learning to Be
Ocdsb exit outcomes
How do we achieve these essential life skills?
The solution to this problem...
RISK TAKING & FAILURE !!!!!
Famous failures
Research & inquiry process
PASSION BASED PROJECTS
Choose current issues that YOU are interested in.
Learn how to research PROPERLY online.
Use Social Media & email to connect with the community to get answers.
Find / create Solutions to the problems.
Act on those solutions and make a difference :)
This is what we are striving for!!
Genius hour
Social media
Using Twitter in the Classroom.
Authentic audience
Share your Genius Hour - teach someone else.
Connect with the community and your peers.
Field trips - work outside the classroom.
Guests.
Social Science Fair - share what you have learned all semester with real people.
Analysis & conclusion
Over many semesters, with feedback from students the way I go about teaching has evolved. Here is what some students have said about it.
One thing that i liked about this class was that i learned a lot from other classmates projects. Sometimes it was from presentations but most of the time i learned about them by just talking to them about their ideas. I valued this portion of the course very highly and that's why i also incorporated some others tweets and ideas in my summative because i could tell that they were just as invested and interested in their ideas and projects as i was in mine. By just talking to them i was able to gather some knowledge i other wise wouldn't have cared to research.
Initially I did not achieve learning to learn when it came to tweeting it was somewhat "Half assed" But as the semester progressed so did my attitude and ironically I tweeted regarding a presentation I did in another class and all of a sudden I had responses.
I did a presentation on mental health awareness and support for my leadership class. It felt very satisfying to do a presentation on something that I had learned so much about and was interested in, and the fact that it might have benefited some of the students in the class. This made me realize the satisfaction that comes with philanthropy.
Analysis & conclusion
Having to invent something is forced creativity in my opinion. No hate against Mrs. Chambers, just not my strong suit. Overall my learning to think section could be improved in the future by doing all the cliché student things, like not talk, stay focused on task and hand everything in on time. However I believe if I am learning something I enjoy, those factors will be easier to achieve.
Innovation can be tough, especially when given a hypothetically short amount of time to demonstrate your innovation. Especially when it's to solve such a massive problem like homelessness or racism.
Student who was new to the process:
At the beginning of the course, I was unorganized and unfocused when I did my inquiry because, although it is important to understand, the psychology of refugees traveling from war countries didn’t interest me enough to be passionate about my research. When I started my unit 3 group assignment, however, I really became interested on how I could directly impact syrian refugees that were struggling coming to a new country. I became motivated to find a way to help them.
Learning without even knowing!
At the beginning of the course I found it difficult to wrap my head around this idea and around this process. To be quite truthful I was really confused of how I was going to learn or how I was going to quite possibly get something out of this course. Who knew that while I was figuring out this process I was in fact learning.
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