Total Recall (2012)

Matthias: Mr. Hauser, What is it you want?
Doug Quaid: I want to help you.
Matthias: That is not the only reason you are here.
Doug Quaid: I want to remember.
Matthias: Why?
Doug Quaid: So I can be myself, be who I was.
Matthias: It is each man's quest to find out who he truly is, but the answer to that lies in the present, not in the past. As it is for all of us.
Doug Quaid: But the past tells us who we've become.
Matthias: The past is a construct of the mind. It blinds us. It fools us into believing it. But the heart wants to live in the present. Look there. You'll find your answer.

[source: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0321309/quotes]

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Change or teach/create projects across ALL classes

All classes now incorporate the importance of personal efficacy, culminating in the 'personal/group impact change' or 'create/teach' projects and presentations as capstones.  Each student (alone or in small groups) will need to develop a project for change and report the results or create a means of teaching about needed change and report the results.

The goal is to add creativity (literature suggests it is sorely lacking in education) and personal efficacy to topics that are otherwise often 'soul crushing' or engender a sense of hopelessness.

Starter ideas are embedded in the project description on Talon, but new ideas arise daily.  In response to "Miss Representation," students were wanting to make projects to reach out to media outlets and politicians to state their frustrations.  They were also willing to come up with ways to share the documentary with others that might foster greater awareness (and hence the power to change!) of the social forces acting on us.

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