Week 13 Story: Story Lab
This week I chose to do the story lab assignment. This consisted of two TED talk videos on writing stories.
The first video was "A New Theory of Human Intelligence" by Scott Barry Kaufman (source). The speaker starts off my proposing a new theory of intelligence. He shows a teacher evaluation of a certain kid in two different stages of his life and asks if given the first evaluation, would we be able to predict the second. The child went from a very hyperactive kid diagnose with FOUR disorders at 8 years old, to a mild mannered middle schooler. Then he talks about a classification of children called "twice exceptional children." These kids have many weakness not associated with "normal" but have just as many strengths, AND many of the listed "weaknesses" can be strengths given the right context. He suggests that these students are often overlooked in the school system because it is structure for what is deemed as normal learning, and proposes that we need to find a way to leave room in our education system for children to surprise us. I agree with his proposal because I was put in the same boat. I struggled with education through primary school and was told I needed medication to be like the other kids my age, at barely 9 years old. But my parents chose not to follow that path, and took a more holistic approach to guiding my learning. While it has been difficult and I have to do things a different way than "normal" students, I have many personal goals that I have the ability to pursue and I continue on my learning path.
The second video was "Copyright is Brain Damage" by Nina Paley (source). Paley begins by explaining her initial understanding of copyright: that the terms were too long and the process was annoying, without doubting the fundamental concept of intellectual property. Through working with the copyright systems, she realizes something about the system. The copyright holders don't get money for their name, they only get the power to suppress other people from using what they "own". She describes how songs written a long time ago is owned in fragments by different music companies, and questions how this benefits the song writer, or even the "work in question", OR even the public. Also, she proposes that copyright blocks the circulation of materials since people who can't get permission to use a certain thing can't use that thing. She then talks about how we receive information from all around us, and discussed how all artists, even those who work "alone" work with the information the receive and how they interpret it. She proposes that the existence of copyright creates a sort of "regime" that stops the cultural flow of information, where info flows in and then can't flow back out. She continues on to say that the presence of "trouble" limits what we choose to express. She proposes then that this limiting in turn stalls innovation and progress. Why do we comply with censorship? She tell the audience that a way to combat this limitation is to rid the thought from your own mind because those corporations didn't ask permission to block our own minds.
The first video was "A New Theory of Human Intelligence" by Scott Barry Kaufman (source). The speaker starts off my proposing a new theory of intelligence. He shows a teacher evaluation of a certain kid in two different stages of his life and asks if given the first evaluation, would we be able to predict the second. The child went from a very hyperactive kid diagnose with FOUR disorders at 8 years old, to a mild mannered middle schooler. Then he talks about a classification of children called "twice exceptional children." These kids have many weakness not associated with "normal" but have just as many strengths, AND many of the listed "weaknesses" can be strengths given the right context. He suggests that these students are often overlooked in the school system because it is structure for what is deemed as normal learning, and proposes that we need to find a way to leave room in our education system for children to surprise us. I agree with his proposal because I was put in the same boat. I struggled with education through primary school and was told I needed medication to be like the other kids my age, at barely 9 years old. But my parents chose not to follow that path, and took a more holistic approach to guiding my learning. While it has been difficult and I have to do things a different way than "normal" students, I have many personal goals that I have the ability to pursue and I continue on my learning path.
The second video was "Copyright is Brain Damage" by Nina Paley (source). Paley begins by explaining her initial understanding of copyright: that the terms were too long and the process was annoying, without doubting the fundamental concept of intellectual property. Through working with the copyright systems, she realizes something about the system. The copyright holders don't get money for their name, they only get the power to suppress other people from using what they "own". She describes how songs written a long time ago is owned in fragments by different music companies, and questions how this benefits the song writer, or even the "work in question", OR even the public. Also, she proposes that copyright blocks the circulation of materials since people who can't get permission to use a certain thing can't use that thing. She then talks about how we receive information from all around us, and discussed how all artists, even those who work "alone" work with the information the receive and how they interpret it. She proposes that the existence of copyright creates a sort of "regime" that stops the cultural flow of information, where info flows in and then can't flow back out. She continues on to say that the presence of "trouble" limits what we choose to express. She proposes then that this limiting in turn stalls innovation and progress. Why do we comply with censorship? She tell the audience that a way to combat this limitation is to rid the thought from your own mind because those corporations didn't ask permission to block our own minds.
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