Alicia’s ePortfolio

When I agreed with Lukianoff and Haidt I thought that their quote about how protecting students make them less prepared for life outside their classroom was right. I think that students need to talk about difficult topics, and that coddling them does not support them. If you don’t expose them in a comfortable setting, they won’t be able to handle the topics anywhere else. When I agreed with Roth’s quote that campuses need safe enough spaces and not just safe…

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The concerns I had when finishing my draft was including all of the topics and making them flow, which did not happen. I think my peers like how I introduced different topics and how I used my quotes and explained them. “Good job summarizing his points and explaining them more”(Nick). I used Dweck the best combining the fixed and growth mindsets to microaggressions and trigger warnings. I need to improve how I flow between the two topics. I work the…

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Michael S. Roth says that college campuses do not need “safe spaces” but instead need “safe enough spaces.” “Our classrooms should never be so comfortable that intellectual confrontation becomes taboo or assumptions go unchallenged because everyone;s emotional well-being is overprotected. Instead, we must promote intellectual diversity in a context in which people can feel safe enough to challenge one another. Vigorous scholarly exchange and academic freedom depend on it”(Roth, paragraph 21). If you encourage an environment where kids can speak…

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Many people use trigger warnings in classrooms to aid kids to not use microaggressions which can make kids feel threatened or cause dramatic emotional reactions. Lukianoff and Haidt’s article ‘The Coddling’ talks about it in greater depth. “F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger” a recurrence of past trauma.” They said that a…

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For the project I’m thinking about doing one paragraph explaining Dweck’s ideas. I will talk about how she feels as though kids with a growth mindset love learning and kids with a fixed mindset hate it. I will also talk about how she feels as though you can change a kid with a fixed mindset perspective on learning. Then I will have a separate paragraph for Lukianoff and Haidt. I will talk about how they bring up the ideas of…

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1- They say that critical thinking “required grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis’ (Lukianoff, Haidt). Basically saying that you must have the drive to learn more and to basically check yourself, or offer different ideas to make you second guess yourself. They offer emotional reasoning as an aid to critical thinking. They define it as “your negative emotions necessarily reflect…

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1-  Microaggressions are using seemingly harmless words that in reality hurt or cause harm to someone, making them a victim. Trigger warnings are supposed to be used by adults, mainly teachers, to stop a conversation before it gets too heated and hurts a person, or a group of people.  Both are important for education because someone could use a microaggression without realizing that someone they are talking to could be offended by the word choices that they use. Trigger warnings…

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At the involvement fair I signed up for the Equestrian Club. There is a meeting on Monday, September 2nd, and there I will learn a lot more about the club. The team rides out of the barn “High Standard Stables” in Wells, Maine.I believe they are apart of the IHJA (I’m not one hundred percent sure if that is correct) but every team has a maximum of five rides and they try to qualify for the finals. The six shows…

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1- Growth Mindset is explained as a person who loves an academic challenge. They thrive for the opportunity to push themselves and allow their abilities to expand or get better. When an error is made, they process it, learn from it, and then correct it. Scientific research was done on the amount of brain activity when an error is made and it showed that people with a Growth Mindset “their brain was on fire”(Dweck), they loved the challenge. Fixed Mindset…

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