EPICYCLE GEB: ROBERTO BLUM
What is something recursive? It's very interesting to see figures that are recursive, that means that both figure and ground form something different. But it's not only a figure which is recursive, we can have everything in a recursive way. Another thing that stroke me is that we talked about the slowness of our thinking and how our evolution affects our present. How does it affect it? Is it connected to the epigenetic rules that Wilson talked about in Consilience?It's also curious to think why do we have emotions? Why do we have feelings? What's the purpose of them? Aren't they making us "less" productive in away? I mean they certainly affect our capacity of focus and do things objectively. Or maybe they don't, maybe they're essential. Another thing that affects our way of thought is language, now that is really interesting because in a way different countries have certain patterns of thought that makes them unique or different. What if we had artificial languages? Could we reach one way of thought?
EPICYCLE: ARMANDO DE LA TORRE
The word science hasn't the same meaning in every language. In english it means physics and chemistry. And in the rest of the languages, science everything else (theology, anthropology). The greek view of science (episteme: true knowledge) dominated the west side perception of science that set the ground for the Scientific Revolution to emerge. Our understanding of science today was caused by the Scientific Revolution. The goal of science is to be clear, to know, to discover and to reach truth.
LEARNING PROCESSES
Prepare the environment: physically and emotionally.
What is the importance of dialogue? I think that dialogues are important to think about our thinking and about other's thinking. How to construct on their thoughts? How to understand them? How to understand mine? It's an exchange of understanding that provides the emergence of new ideas and new thoughts.
We thought deeply about collaborative learning, so we were assigned to choose an epicycle in order to think how that specific epicycle could improve. I learned the description of the four fields of learning: Didactics (being exposed to learning), praxis (practice your learning), autopoiesis (demonstrate yourself what you learned) , allopoiesis (demonstrate others what you learned). I chose Learning Processes and Classical Studies.
This week we also worked on Design Thinking interviews and I learned a lot because they were empathy interviews, which means that I couldn't suggest something to the person that was being interviewed, I just had to listen and understand.
DRAWING CLASS
"Descubriendo al mundo es como uno puede re inventarlo". Aprendimos a ver, a diferenciar la luz de la sombra y interpretar las formas como realmente son.
FIRE IN THE EQUATIONS
Science is a quest for precision in language. Pattern, does it exist or do we create it?
How do we know what we know is true? We started reading this book and it definitely is a book with deep inquires about human existence and knowledge? The questions made me reflect a lot on what I know or think I know that is true. I can't wait to read more about it!
MUSIC
La música se divide en frases. Aprendimos a ver nuestro tono de voz, ¿qué tan alto podemos llegar? ¿Qué tan bajo podemos cantar?
CLASSICAL STUDIES: CRITO
Socrates says that it's wrong doing harm and so doing harm in return to someone who harmed you. That phrase is really powerful, because it implies that one should stick to one's values without giving importance to the situation. But what about when you want to fight for your life? Is it wrong harming in return? It reminds me of people like Socrates or Jesus, who rather die than harming anyone else. It's very admirable but I don't know if I couldn't fight back for my life.
MOVIE: TWELVE ANGRY MEN
I learned the importance of the following, they are needed in order to accomplish something or to get at something in a dialogue:
"We are not here to fight, we have a responsibility."
"There's always room for a reasonable doubt."
What is something recursive? It's very interesting to see figures that are recursive, that means that both figure and ground form something different. But it's not only a figure which is recursive, we can have everything in a recursive way. Another thing that stroke me is that we talked about the slowness of our thinking and how our evolution affects our present. How does it affect it? Is it connected to the epigenetic rules that Wilson talked about in Consilience?It's also curious to think why do we have emotions? Why do we have feelings? What's the purpose of them? Aren't they making us "less" productive in away? I mean they certainly affect our capacity of focus and do things objectively. Or maybe they don't, maybe they're essential. Another thing that affects our way of thought is language, now that is really interesting because in a way different countries have certain patterns of thought that makes them unique or different. What if we had artificial languages? Could we reach one way of thought?
EPICYCLE: ARMANDO DE LA TORRE
The word science hasn't the same meaning in every language. In english it means physics and chemistry. And in the rest of the languages, science everything else (theology, anthropology). The greek view of science (episteme: true knowledge) dominated the west side perception of science that set the ground for the Scientific Revolution to emerge. Our understanding of science today was caused by the Scientific Revolution. The goal of science is to be clear, to know, to discover and to reach truth.
LEARNING PROCESSES
Prepare the environment: physically and emotionally.
What is the importance of dialogue? I think that dialogues are important to think about our thinking and about other's thinking. How to construct on their thoughts? How to understand them? How to understand mine? It's an exchange of understanding that provides the emergence of new ideas and new thoughts.
We thought deeply about collaborative learning, so we were assigned to choose an epicycle in order to think how that specific epicycle could improve. I learned the description of the four fields of learning: Didactics (being exposed to learning), praxis (practice your learning), autopoiesis (demonstrate yourself what you learned) , allopoiesis (demonstrate others what you learned). I chose Learning Processes and Classical Studies.
This week we also worked on Design Thinking interviews and I learned a lot because they were empathy interviews, which means that I couldn't suggest something to the person that was being interviewed, I just had to listen and understand.
DRAWING CLASS
"Descubriendo al mundo es como uno puede re inventarlo". Aprendimos a ver, a diferenciar la luz de la sombra y interpretar las formas como realmente son.
FIRE IN THE EQUATIONS
Science is a quest for precision in language. Pattern, does it exist or do we create it?
How do we know what we know is true? We started reading this book and it definitely is a book with deep inquires about human existence and knowledge? The questions made me reflect a lot on what I know or think I know that is true. I can't wait to read more about it!
MUSIC
La música se divide en frases. Aprendimos a ver nuestro tono de voz, ¿qué tan alto podemos llegar? ¿Qué tan bajo podemos cantar?
CLASSICAL STUDIES: CRITO
Socrates says that it's wrong doing harm and so doing harm in return to someone who harmed you. That phrase is really powerful, because it implies that one should stick to one's values without giving importance to the situation. But what about when you want to fight for your life? Is it wrong harming in return? It reminds me of people like Socrates or Jesus, who rather die than harming anyone else. It's very admirable but I don't know if I couldn't fight back for my life.
MOVIE: TWELVE ANGRY MEN
I learned the importance of the following, they are needed in order to accomplish something or to get at something in a dialogue:
- Disentangle
- Be open to understand the other
- Sensitivity
- Empathy
- Respect others motives
- Questioning
- Prejudice always obscures truth
- The power of emotions
"We are not here to fight, we have a responsibility."
"There's always room for a reasonable doubt."
EUCLID
We made our project on one proposition, the purpose was to create something in a creative way so that the students at Acton Academy in Guatemala could start approaching Euclid in a playful way. We chose proposition 15, Book I: If two straight lines cut one another, they make the vertical angles equal to one another. So, we made the angles on a helicopter. It was fun!
We made our project on one proposition, the purpose was to create something in a creative way so that the students at Acton Academy in Guatemala could start approaching Euclid in a playful way. We chose proposition 15, Book I: If two straight lines cut one another, they make the vertical angles equal to one another. So, we made the angles on a helicopter. It was fun!
CELEBRATE WHAT'S RIGHT
HOW CAN WE FIX WHAT'S WRONG?
REFLECTION OF THE WEEK
Do patterns really exist? Do we create them? Do we find them? How our culture influences us? How do we know that what we know is true? Can we live in uncertainty? Is doubting hard? Do we need a leap of faith to be sane? The hard part is to believe that we haven't attained objective truth. Is it attainable? Are we getting closer or we are just fooling ourselves? There are many versions of what is truth and what isn't, I think that they shouldn't be opposites. Rather, they both should be explored in order to know the different motives to believe in that. It's all about dialoguing and understanding that there's always room for a reasonable doubt.
- We are constantly searching for solutions
- There's a lot of passion in our dialogues
- We are following our rubrics
- Euclid projects made our creativity flourished, we learned to work in group.
- Our new sign of agreeing (snapping fingers) energizes our environment.
HOW CAN WE FIX WHAT'S WRONG?
- Show respect towards the one who's speaking, avoid side conversations
- Come prepared to the dialogue: read on time.
- If we don't had a dialogue because of lack of preparation we should re-schedule them.
- Organize well our time for the projects, work here.
- Punctuality
- Take care of the lounge, is it the best we can do? Does it represents our standards?
REFLECTION OF THE WEEK
Do patterns really exist? Do we create them? Do we find them? How our culture influences us? How do we know that what we know is true? Can we live in uncertainty? Is doubting hard? Do we need a leap of faith to be sane? The hard part is to believe that we haven't attained objective truth. Is it attainable? Are we getting closer or we are just fooling ourselves? There are many versions of what is truth and what isn't, I think that they shouldn't be opposites. Rather, they both should be explored in order to know the different motives to believe in that. It's all about dialoguing and understanding that there's always room for a reasonable doubt.