Hello, New Media 10 (D1&2)!
Please craft and bring to class your 10-15 sentence mini passion speech. You may use some of the brainstormed strategies below, or any other that come to mind. If you wish to switch topics, that’s fine. If you want to keep some of the phrasing you already used, please do so.
Bottom Line: your writing should be something that you can speak to/ read with passion and conviction.
- Video transitions to other slides
- Feels like he’s more attached to some words over others
- Clear, logical, convincing
- Chronic condition, nuclear fission: all these separate ideas come together at the end (loose ends brought together)
- Collision to collaborating
- Use of specific examples
- Shift: “but wait”
- Presenting a vision
- Rhymes
- Rhythm (rap style)
- Questions (rhetorical)
- Body language
- Enunciation/ stress
Why Schools Should Be About Us and Not Me
Trevor Muir (2019)
It's like every tweet I read is another sign of our division.
People shouting and screaming,
CAPS LOCK on so they don't have to listen.
We stare at our phones like it’s a chronic condition.
The dinner table is silent, conversations are had through a wireless,
disconnected transmission.
We’re being taken over by a forced individualism.
Leading to social and political combustion,
it’s like nuclear fission.
You want evidence of this friction?
Walk over to Capitol Hill to get a taste of the derision.
It’s collision after collision.
There's a crack forming between us, splitting
this vision we had, this ambition to be a people with the
shared commission of succeeding together.
Being together.
Talking together.
Working together.
The number one skill sought by employers is collaboration.
And one of the number one reasons people are fired
from their jobs is that they haven't accepted
this invitation to work with one another.
At work, there’s this hesitation to step
over this divide between us, a microcosm of
our nation.
And I'm left to wonder if it's because most of us get to graduation after 13 years of
education where you only having to worry about
personal elevation.
It’s my grades.
My homework.
My tests.
It's my success.
It's my learning.
Really, this is all just about ME.
For many, school is just about you.
Sit in rows, not groups.
Remember when your homework is due.
From Kindergarten on, prepare for standardized tests till your face turns blue.
Teachers know students should be collaborating
but they get in trouble for “not enough rigor”
in the classroom.
When there’s a system that only trains you to succeed as an individual
Don’t be surprised by this lasting residual,
where getting fired for lack of teamwork skills
has become typical,
and a staggering amount of people report that
they are miserable.
We’ve become a people who lack the ability
to collaborate.
But wait- what if we thought of this skill
as a muscle we can strengthen?
And we started working students out now
as an investment in society we are making?
What if the Common Core emphasized how to deal with group conflict as much as how to
solve for X?
And we started teaching giving and receiving critical
feedback as much as remembering facts from a text?
What if the SAT had a whole section on participating in discussion?
Think of the repercussions of all 57 million children
in our country knowing how to listen
without obstruction.
If our education system emphasized building community
as a primary function.
Do you think social media would be more constructive?
Would our political system be more productive?
A more successful workforce?
Stronger economy?
Less poverty?
We can still be scholarly when we learn as a community.
Still teach detailed subject matter.
Only now the result isn’t just a people who are smarter,
But also work better
When they work
together.
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