ghs workshop reflection #2

10/30/2014

Please use your most honest and eloquent writing to reflect on your experience with the second Step to Genius: Dimostrazione. Include the following...
1. Give a brief description of what Dimostrazione is.
2. What is your response to da Vinci's statement that "...those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience...?"
3. How much importance do you place on what others think and say about you, and why?
4. What did you enjoy about this workshop? What did you not like about it?

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10/30/2014 11:55:21 am

Dimostrazione is the determination to learn and test knowledge, to constantly question things, if not necessarily in a negative way, but to expand knowledge base. Perhaps personal experience is the best way to learn and retain information, but some second-hand experience is useful to life. I do not place much importance on other people's opinions, but I do occasionally worry about when I make mistakes that reflect myself in a poor nature. Without this, we would have no reason to learn things such as manners, so I feel it is a good thing. I enjoyed the conversation between people and the stream-of-consciousness writing, but I did not enjoy some of the other activities which felt forced in a way.

10/30/2014 11:55:28 am

Dimostrazione is learning and exploring your curious side.
I agree with da Vinci's statement and we should explore deeper into questions we want to get anwered.

I don't place that much on what others say about me. I am my own person and what they say doesn't affect me at all.

I enjoyed the discussion that occurred and how we had to pair up with other people.

10/30/2014 11:55:33 am

Dimostrazine is not being afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
I think that he is partially correct, and was probably accurate way back when, but now secondhand research is valid. We don't have to experience the science directly as long as we verify it.
I place some importance on how I appear to others because I don't want to reflect badly on myself, but not that much because what other people think isn't all-important.
I liked the consciousness-stream writing when we started with the topic I did not like the arguing against yourself and debate with new people as much.

10/30/2014 11:55:40 am

Dimostrazione is to learn from your mistakes. My response to Da VInci's response is that scientists may be full of error, but they end up coming up with logical theories or solutions to things in life. They make mistakes very often, but keep moving forward to solve the problem. I change the importance on what people say and think about me depending on who says/ thinks it. If the person is totally irrelevant to me then I won't care at all, but if the person is close to me or acquainted with me I will actually care about what they think or say about me. I enjoyed that this workshop gave us a chance to put motivational things in other's journals. It will be able to help people keep their heads up when they are down. I did not like how difficult it was to come up with my biggest mistake. I have many mistakes in my life and choosing the biggest one was extremely stressful.

10/30/2014 11:55:49 am

1. Being persistent and never giving up on something. Also being able to learn from your mistakes.
2. I agree, there are many things you just can't fully learn unless you experience them yourself.
3. I really do not place importance on what other people say about me, I know what I want to be in my life and nobody else can tell me what I should be or do.
4.I enjoyed the free thought writing. I did not like having to argue against my opinions.

10/30/2014 11:55:56 am

Dimostrazione is being persistent and being able to learn from your mistakes. In his quote, Da Vinci means that experiments that are done without any prior knowledge or experience will be full of errors and will only lead to mistakes. I do not place much importance on other people's opinions of me, since the only opinion of me that matters is my own opinion. I enjoyed everything about this workshop, with the exception of the stream-or-consciousness writing. I most enjoyed doing activities with partners, and writing things in everyone else's notebooks.

10/30/2014 11:56:32 am

Dimostrazione is the commitment to learn. I think that in some cases it is true, but if someone told me that some Irish people have red hair, I would believe them because it is proven. I place as much importance on what others say and think as I do to myself because it has just as much meaning. I enjoyed not having to do school work, but all of the writing did not appeal to me.

10/30/2014 11:57:09 am

Dimostrazione is the commitment to knowledge using experience, and things you've learned through persistence and from mistakes.
Experiments done without prior knowledge or experience will be full of errors.
I only care about the opinions of people close to me. If I don't respect a person, I do not care for what they have to say about me.
I enjoyed the activities in this workshop, but I wish there were more hands on activities for this section.

10/30/2014 11:57:33 am

Dimostrazione is the testing of your own knowledge, exploring, finding out for yourself. Exploring who you are to change yourself. First person experiences are the best learning experience but not the only experience. It is a primary source vs. secondary source; secondary sources offer new views and ways to analyze. I place medium importance on what others think and say, sometimes I ignore other people and other times I give too much attention to them. People are afraid of judgement, failure, and mistakes. The judgement can lead to the mistakes and failures. I liked the discussion on your beliefs on human nature, religion, etc.

10/30/2014 11:57:43 am

1. Demostrazione is learning from your mistakes and demonstrating your physical/mental to others.
2. It's pretty neat. If something has been hidden and not seen the light, what's the point of it? Experiences are built off each other.
3. People will judge you and think of you regardless. You can decide what you think about others judging you and can let it build you up or break you down.
4. I enjoyed the interactivity of it and talking with each other, along with the writing which everyone else hated for some reason. I did not enjoy Cronin mercilessly sitting on me and abusing me, but that wasn't necessarily your fault.

Good ol' 34

10/30/2014 11:57:57 am

Dimostrazione is commitment to learn. I think da Vinci i correct in saying that unless you experience something yourself, it is in vain. Experiencing something first-hand will teach you much better than hearing of it. I place some importance on what others think of me. I do because it is important to uphold your reputation. I enjoyed the "stream of consciousness writing."

10/30/2014 11:58:12 am

Dimostrazione- always persisting in testing the limits of knowledge; learning from our mistakes
I do agree that experience is the best way to gain knowledge about the world, but there is much to be learned from secondhand sources as well.
It matters to me some what people think of me, and I try to put my best image out, but I do not let it bring me down when I am told someone thinks of me poorly. If anything I let that motivate me.
I did enjoy learning about my beliefs based on my life experience, but I think we could have done a lot more hands on activities such as building and learning from how things work. We could have performed experiments or learned things through this topic.

ghs workshop reflection #2

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