I find it really interesting that you touch on real learning once you arrived at graduate school. I experienced the same issues. I was in a topic study class where we were reading and analyzing academic papers. I was amazed by the students (3rd and 4th year Ph.D students) poking holes in other peer reviewed papers. Since I have been taught since birth that academia teaches you things while you sit in a seat until you are smart enough to stand in front of a class and teach it yourself. Once you are that smart, you write about it. Challenging others ideas and thoughts never crossed my mind. I resonate with you point.

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I too agree that too many unnecessary walls are driven between races and classes and boxes are built around them. I had never really thought, until the article that is, of how gender is placed in a box all too quickly. Of course I am aware of gender stereotypes and all that follows, but your point about the women being able to rally together to help each other, isn’t that something we see through race and class as well?

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I too agree that too many unnecessary walls are driven between races and classes and boxes are built around them. I had never really thought, until the article that is, of how gender is placed in a box all too quickly. Of course I am aware of gender stereotypes and all that follows, but your point about the women being able to rally together to help each other, isn’t that something we see through race and class as well?

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I never thought it would be easy to distill Freire’s discussions into a single blog post, but I believe you have done it! Highlighting the domesticating and the liberating sides of education, awesome. How do you see us as educators being able to stick to the proper side? Is it a mindset? A way we perform assessment?

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I never thought it would be easy to distill Freire’s discussions into a single blog post, but I believe you have done it! Highlighting the domesticating and the liberating sides of education, awesome. How do you see us as educators being able to stick to the proper side? Is it a mindset? A way we perform assessment?

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I agree. It is difficult for us as individuals to remove some of those invisible biases because the majority of them are unconscious. I agree with what you said about the transition from safe space to brave space and certainly about the translation of this from the classroom to social justice as a whole!

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I agree. It is difficult for us as individuals to remove some of those invisible biases because the majority of them are unconscious. I agree with what you said about the transition from safe space to brave space and certainly about the translation of this from the classroom to social justice as a whole!

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Ashish,
I would challenge you to review strengths more. This is not a personality test, it is very different. Review the research that created the assessment.

I could speak volumes to your comment, I highly suggest you look deeper into strengthsquest.

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Ashish,
I would encourage you to review strengths more. This is not a personality test, it is very different. There is a handbook that accompanies the assessment which highlights the idea behind the assessment and it is far from a personality test. You hit on that point exactly, tests like these are static, however the research has shown that the strengths that are highlighted through the gallup method are those with you for life. That is, an individual evolves into and around their strengths as opposed to evolving and changing beside ones strengths.

Also, I only highlighted my top five strengths, as I feel that was all that was necessary. Gallup orders all of the traits for you after you have completed the assessment. In the handbook, Gallup emphasizes analyzing the shadow side of ones strengths. That is, what traits of an achiever can get in the way to success. I feel that the idea of a shadow side of a strength really addresses your point about only focusing on these five strengths.

Check out the research, you be not be disappointed.

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I don’t totally understand game based learning. I get the concepts, I get the benefits, I am just having a difficult time seeing it in my field (industrial engineering). I think it could be very interesting and useful! I am glad you posted that link, I will put the game design handbook to good use!

– Zach D.

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