Much reading here... a little writing, much walking, much thinking... and then via the ever-thoughtful Tasting Rhubarb blog this week I came to a beautiful speech by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's about stories and stereotypes:
And speaking of TEDs, I also liked a lot of the content in this next one by writer Susan Cain. As someone whose child asks "why do we have to do group work at school?" I found a lot to be interested in here (sure, Cain has a book to promote... but that's no crime). It's worth getting to the end ("Stop the madness for constant group work. Just stop it.").
Back to the reading now.
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9 comments:
Should there be great gaps of emptiness on this blog Rachel, or is my computer not picking up something?
There should be two TED videos. They are surrounded by a fair bit of space and they take a moment or two to come in but they should be there eventually.
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This one was good too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=youtu.be&t=57s
I watched that one a while back - it is good!
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Love TED talks - seen the Adichie one - her fiction's good, too.
Going to watch the other one in a mo...
Yes, I had an Adichie book in my to-read pile but I have shifted it up a few places to the front of the queue now! Just reading "Extremely Loud..." now. Very good so far.
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Good stuff - sick of the pro-group mind set. I love quiet and alone time.....rare thing that it is....I've read a lot of surrounding research and there's so much guff going on in schools it needs addressing....
Guff, guff, everywhere...
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Maybe instead of practising imaginary Oscar acceptance speeches, practising imaginary TED speeches could be the new craze! 20 minutes to talk... what would you say..?
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