LAS 1115 NEC Connecting Values and Values of the Community Reflection & Responses
Discussion and peer response
How Do We Positively Affect Our Communities?
How does the course to date and the readings and video this week relate to the idea of positively affecting our communities?
Discussion Assignment Words Limit: 300 Words
Peer Response word limit: 200 words for each Student
Extra credit Assignment
You are welcome to do an extra credit assignment worth 2 points towards your final grade, due no later than the last Friday of this term, June 25th, 2021. The assignment is in line with our discussion in Week 3 regarding Jacqueline Novogratz’s approach to her work when it came to so called failures. If I could summarize the discussion in simple terms, she had the capacity to recognize and reflect on her mistakes and adapt her methods accordingly. This capacity also helped her to see ways society failed those in poverty, and to develop effective strategies based on an economic model. Social capitalism rather than direct aid is used to change the trajectory of people’s lives.
I would like for you to reflect on how you approach learning and how you think about yourself. For the Growth Mindset Project:
- You will need to watch the video of Carol Dweck explaining the Growth Mindset theory (about 10 minutes long) – see link below
- Take a short questionnaire, which will help you assess your growth mindset. The second page of the questionnaire has the scoring information – see link to pdf below.
Ted Talk Video link: https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of…
*The Growth Mindset Questionnaire is Attached below
Final Reflection Essay: Community need project
Attached Files:
Write a 2 to 4 page essay reflecting on your experience developing your Community Need Project. Please address the three questions below in the essay.
- How did your project connect to your values and the values of your community?
- How did the project fit with a theme or reading(s) in the course?
- What did your project teach you about yourself as a community member?
and these are the students post you have to respond to:
Leah
We all came together with a variety of ideas to impact the community effectively. The concepts that came to my mind and my classmate include volunteering, donating, sharing skills, supporting business, establishing a company for the community member, offering assistance to those who need help, and sharing skills, experience in life, and knowledge with others. Although there are different required assistances in a diverse community, the course material such as the reading and videos advocate for the online community to come together, providing the skills we need to get to know our community. Impact by learning to become more aware of what is happening around us and what others have experience in their life. When we learn, we have the opportunity to help others live more fully in the present. The reading material builds on the community member’s abilities, encourages independence, and provides biological, physiological, and safety needs, and positively affects the community. Increasing vital opportunities in all aspects will be effective and helpful for a person, even if it means tackling our own experience to assist others in becoming a better version of themselves to live out their dream. My perspective of this week’s poem that relates to the idea of positively affecting our community is that the poem encourages others to stay motivated, no matter what is going on in your life. No situation should take your soul, and stay encourage in which this poem can motivate everybody. One of my perspectives on this week’s video and listening to Roosevelt’s speech he positively affects community members by giving them something to remember in life. If we want to achieve something, it is not about the significant steps; we must take small steps to make things possible and consider the people around us when we are on our journey. We need to know the meaning of our life; when we come to terms with ourselves, we will see the process we need to reach and our purpose in life. They all have a common goal of transforming lives by tackling the community member’s needs by providing resources by increasing opportunities and motivating others, which is vital in all aspects that will be
Miranda
Every person and organization we have studied over the last seven weeks relates to the idea of positively affecting our communities. They all have chosen to not see a hierarchy within their communities and see everyone as equals. And more importantly, treat everyone as equals and fight for everyone to be treated that way by the world. I want to emphasize a part of “Man in the Arena” as I think it beautifully fits the role models we have focused on during this course, like Jacqueline Novogratz and Chef Houser:
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” (Roosevelt, 2011).
I love this quote because in the simplest terms, it means to just try. These people that we have spoken about over the course have done just that, they have tried. And they do not stop trying, working, and believing in their communities and the people within. It has been fun to read about the strength of these pillars of community these past several weeks and I am grateful to know their stories and be inspired by them.
