Our abstract art represents Influence. As you can see, there are many colors. The dark blue outlined with dark black represents the bad influences while the light green and the pink colors represent the good influences. As you may notice the two colors are blending together as a way to show how bad influences and good influences fight one another. The moon shape thingy represents our own beliefs and how they impact our lives, our lives being the big colorful circles. On the left you can see the big blob of light pink and yellow, which represent our thoughts how they are always "next to us" as in thoughts are constantly coming at us. "I think, therefore I am" This is quote, said by Rene Descartes, only has 5 words, but those 5 words are powerful. Those 5 words changed the world of philosophy and espistemology. Looking in depth into this quote, it can get quite confusing. Rene, like may others, doubted his existence. What if none of this is real and this is all a dream? What if we're all in a computer game? What if we don't exist? Rene came to a conclusion that if he was questioning his existence and was thinking, he was real. Hence making the the quote "I think therefore I am" an irrefutable truth.Argumentative Essay #1 - CLICK HERE
FFA Essay - CLICK HERE Due to psychological and systematic research over time, many contributions have been made over the ideas of a fixed and a growth mindset. The idea that some people were just born with a natural ability, a fixed mindset, has been around for a while now and many of these ideas have adapted towards others over time. In an animated video titles Growth Mindset Animation by Cameron Lisney and John Rankin-McCabe it shows how the hare was so convinced that he would win the race for his “natural ability”; therefore he didn’t put any effort in. However the tortoise put so much effort in and was so determined even while knowing that he wasn’t as fast as the hare he still kept moving forward resulting in the tortoise to win the race. This gives us a great representation on how the growth and fixed mindsets are different and how the outcome turns out to be when you show no effort towards something because of how you set out to see things vs when you put effort no matter how long it’ll take you to reach your goal. As this new idea of a growth mindset keeps spreading onto more people, others find this as a way of changing their way of thinking, which affects the way that they live their lives. How I see it, before my generation, more people believed that they could be anything they wanted to be, but as the internet became more and more popular, people started doubting their capability and it started affecting their way of thinking.
Many people with a Fixed Mindset who try to achieve for a goal end up giving up once they are faced with a difficult challenge because they are afraid of failure. People with a Growth Mindset who want to achieve a goal, see failure as a way to learn from their mistakes. Children now are stuck with the idea that if they solve one problem wrong they are not good at that subject and they feel dumb so they give up. Another reason for this is when the kids who get an answer correctly or they do something right they get prized and the other kids who got it wrong start giving up because they aren’t as good as those kids. In Carol Dweck's speech she says,¨We recently teamed up with game scientists from the University of Washington to create a new online math game that rewarded yet. In this game, students were rewarded for effort, strategy, and progress. The usual math game rewards you for getting answers right right now, but this game rewarded process. And we got more effort, more strategies, more engagement over longer periods of time, and more perseverance when they hit really, really hard problems.¨ Rewarding those kids that do well causes the other kids who didn’t do so well to give up or doubt their intelligence and their capability. Many teachers add to this type of thinking by not making sure that their students know that it’s okay to fail here and there. The mindset theory made lots of contributions in the way we see why people do certain things. Some people believe that basic qualities & traits are inherited and instead of working on improving themselves they just believe that they were born with a certain talent. This affects on how much effort they put into the things that they do. Studies have shown that the mindset that you have now affects how successful you become in the future, that is why it is important that you start having a good mindset at a young age. For our visual presentation, we decided on creating a poster board with two heads, one being the person with the growth mindset, and the other with the fixed. To represent the growth mindset, we are using the left head. In there is a vibrant brain, with a plant that keeps growing. I think this represents a growth mindset because like a plant, with having a growth mindset, you strive to learn which expands and grows your brain. To represent the fixed mindset, we are using the left head. In there is a dull brain trapped in a cage. When I think of a fixed mindset, I envision this because your brain is locked in a cage where it has stopped growing and is trapped. "I think, therefore I am." What does this mean? To me, this means to have faith and not doubt yourself. René Descartes, like many of us, was pondering about his existence. There wasn't any factual evidence to prove he was real, but he said that if he thought he was real, then he was. In my opinion, this quote means that if you truly believe in something without any evidence, don't doubt yourself. You think, therefore you are.
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Descartes Blog Post #5Descartes belief with perception, an intuition of the mind, contained the idea of irrefutable truth, absolute, undeniable truth. For example, in paragraph three of the reading, Descartes explains how he saw men outside his window with coats hats, but they really are not men, that is just what his mind wants to see. They could've been women in coats and hats, even robots! In the picture above, we see a cloud, at least that's what I see, because authority has made believe this. If you look at the sky right now, this is not how a cloud looks. The process of us thinking about this is an irrefutable truth, but the outcome, or what we see is not.
TLP ArtifactTLP artifact showing multiple perspectives and that structure has things that interrelate.
AuthorEmely Mora Archives
May 2017
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