P2PU | Self-Directed Learning - Science - Level 1

Detox - Notice

Make a video-, audio-, or written jounral entry in the detox section of your profile page on Youth Voices, beginning with your answer to the question:

What have you been noticing lately?

There are no rules. All we ask for is a well-intentioned effort and for this to become something you do on a regular, perhaps daily basis. After you finish your detox, you might be interested in the examples here from Monika Hardy's Innovation Lab in Loveland, Colorado and here on Youth Voices.

Once you have posted a Detox Discussion on Youth Voices, come back to this Task and Post a Comment. In the comment box, create a link back to that Discussion post on Youth Voices.

Finally, click Yes, I'm done for this Task.

Funny – noticing has to be the most basic skill that all of us possess. It is probably the most taken for granted, the most outsourced, and the most potent of all skills. Noticings determine action. Learning how to notice is key to making making the world a better place.

One of the best gifts we can share with each other, is how to notice.

Listen … with whatever means you have.. to what’s going on around you.

Notice the world you live in, the country, the state, the city, the district, the school, the class, notice yourself.

Notice what others are noticing.

What if we set out each day planning to notice more, than we critique/defend/bemoan/worry?

Let’s just see… no?

ZoeC said:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CP9t5yXGnXyfattO0cYzrcUz6R1uu6dMYga0rj5XURE/pub

on June 18, 2013, 4:43 a.m.

ShamarS said:

The presentation led by Professor Mark E.Hauber at Bronxworks by Story Avenue. The people that were in the audience for Rock the Boat was my classmates and I. These people who call themselves ornithologists came to the Bronx to study a bird called the Tree Swallow. Their names are... Professor Hauber said,

“ I saw some Tree Swallows just the other day.”

As Professor Hauber said that to the class Chrissy Word got really excited about hearing that the Tree Swallows coming back so soon but she was let down when he told her that those were the ones from Canida.

To be honest hearing what he said made me think that my group was about to experience abnormal behavior from the Tree Swallows. It just sounds cool to be a first student that studied that witnessed unusual behavior from these birds. Professor Hauber began to explain migration to my, he simply said,

“ Migration is to leave and return to the same place.”

I kind of already had an idea of what migration meant but it was said simple and understandable. It also opened my eyes to the kind of living patterns birds have, which can make it easier to track and study them. Do you think all birds migrate to the same areas every year or do they find different places to stay each year?

Another thing that Professor Hauber said that I found informative was when he explained the Ornithological term for Dispersal he said

“ unlike migration, Dispersal is to leave and go elsewhere.”

This made me think of most humans and my future goals. The Photographer said to me that

“birds are a lot like humans when it comes to parents and nestling, there are good parents and there or bad parents.”

and once Professor Hauber explained dispersal to us I started thinking about humans and birds reaching adulthood and leaving the nest and finding a new home.

on March 19, 2013, 12:34 p.m.