After reading pages 1 through 27 in the book entitled “The Truth“, tell me your process for finding consistently accurate, truthful, honest, reliable information. Email me your answer by Sunday, March 24th. Perfect spelling, grammar, and capitalization. And, short sentences too. Thank you.
Then, read pages 40 through 53 in “The Truth” textbook. If you have any questions about anything you read or view on these pages, I encourage you to email me your questions for clarification. I want to help.
Next, complete ACTIVITY 3 on page 56 – 57 of “The Truth” textbook. I am asking you to SET UP AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET where you will segment (organize) and rate data in specific categories on 3 hypothetical, separate neighborhoods. Check the SPREADSHEET sample I created for you on page 57. Your spreadsheet will enable you to easily analyze the data you have segmented to make a logical decision on which neighborhood you would like to live in. IF YOU NEED HELP SETTING UP YOUR EXCEL SPREADSHEET, SEE MS. AVARISTA IN ROOM 222. She told me she welcomes all of you for help setting up an Excel spreadsheet any Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday. Finally, you are expected to bring your printed Excel Spreadsheet to class on March 29th to show how you used the data you segmented and then analyzed to decide on ‘the best neighborhood to live in‘. Email me any questions you have about this assignment.
Today’s class focused on the every day challenge of finding ‘the truth’,
i.e. honest information we can trust that is accurate to make good decisions for the life we aspire to. Making good decisions based on accurate, truthful information from credible sources is not easy today based on the amount of prejudice, propaganda, biased tweets, purposeful ‘misinformation’, and ‘fake news‘ we encounter on social media, newspapers, and network and cable news from once trusted sources like news anchors and reporters, community and religious leaders and our elected politicians. Today’s class attempted to establish a few
‘best practices’ for finding honest, accurate, truthful, non-biased, objective, factual information from trustworthy sources to make good decisions.
The classroom setting for today’s conversation. Students examine a list of ‘statements’ to determine which are ‘fact’, or opinion or ‘just wrong‘!
After students made their individual decisions on the statement list, students work in groups to make collaborative decisions on the list of statements.
A few things to keep in mind when evaluating data to find information which is non-biased, truthful, honest, credible, and accurate.
Today’s guests were Omar Reyes, Assistant Director of Admissions at Rhode Island College, Akintola Fayanjoula, an Admissions Officer at the CCRI Providence office, and Paloma Goico, a student at Rhode Island. Today’s hosts welcoming Omar, Akintola, and Paloma to Hope High were Jose Quintanilla, Darwin Morales, and Khadiatou Njie.
The topic of today’s conversation was the college admissions process especially at the Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College.
The “meet, greet, and welcome” outside the Life Skills class prior to the start of today’s class as Jose welcomes Akintola (left), Khadiatou speaks with Paloma (center), and Darwin confers with Omar.
Khadiatou introduces Paloma to her classmates as Darwin (center) and Jose wait to introduce the other guests.
The Management of today’s class was assumed by Hope High student, Robert Desilets.
Robert took the lead and the facilitator role for today’s conversation among the Hope Life Skills students and our guests, Brown University students Alisa Huban and Meghan Mozea. Alisa, from Austin, Texas, and Meghan, from a small town in western Massachusetts, shared their compelling personal stories from public high school educations to the Ivy League classrooms of Brown University.
Robert Desilets gives the ‘ok’ to start today’s class.
Upon Robert’s cue, Maricruz Flores leads our guests and classmate, Lucy Salado, into the Life Skills classroom.
Lucy (left in the jean jacket in this photo) introduces Alisa (to Lucy’s left) to her classmates to start today’s class as Maricruz awaits to do the same with Meghan.
Hope students welcome Alisa and Meghan to their class following Lucy and Maricruz’s introductions.
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.” This quote is from an interview of the CEO of a successful international consulting company. The interview appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES newspaper. The CEO is Julie Sweet. The company is Accenture. Ms Sweet was given this quote by her husband as she reflected upon the challenges women face in professional life. At Accenture, Ms Sweet has “made promoting qualified women a top priority, setting aggressive objectives for gender parity across Accenture and pushing to promote more women into executive positions.” Our homework assignment this week asks you to explain what you think this quote implies; i.e. what the author of this quote was trying to get readers to think about. Please send your well written answer with perfect spelling, short, grammatically correct sentences with perfect capitalization to my email address as soon as possible but no later than Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Thank you. BTW – If you recall, we had a Director from Accenture, a woman, who spoke at last December’s FUTURE FORUM 3 at Hope High.
a senior career consultant at Transition Solutions and the former Training and Development Manager at TACO Inc, a multi-million dollar, international company in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Today’s host was Arthur Bonga.
Today’s conversation focused on best practices for a successful job interview.
Arthur Bonga welcomes Nan Quinlan back to Hope High and, from Nan’s reaction, Arthur does a great job making Nan feel comfortable before the start of today’s class outside the classroom.
Arthur introduces Nan to his classmates at the start of today’s class.
Today’s guest was Omar Reyes, Assistant Director of Admissions at Rhode Island College.
Accompanying Mr Reyes were two Rhode Island College students, Olimpia Aldana and Alexa Estrada. Today’s Life Skills hosts charged with welcoming Mr Reyes, Olimpia and Alexa were Arthur Bonga, Aaron Chy, and Isabella Caraballo to Hope High School and the Life Skills class.
Admissions Director Omar Reyes (back right) with his team prior to today’s class as Arthur Bonga (lower left white jacket), Isabella Caraballo (directly across from Arthur) and Aaron Chy(standing to the left of Director Omar Reyes).
Arthur, Aaron and Isabella introduce Director Reyes, Alexa and Olimpia to the Life Skills students to start today’s class.
Have you heard the expression – bucket list? It usually refers to a list of things someone wants to do before the day they “kick the bucket“; “kicking the bucket” is a euphemism for dying. Webster’s Dictionary defines this expression as “a list of things a person wants to achieve or experience before reaching a certain age or dying”. Some people list experiences like “skydiving“, “dining at the Capital Grille“, “learning how to dance the Tango“, or “going to a Daddy Yankee concert” before kicking the bucket. Hopefully, you get the idea of what this expression means. This week’s homework WILL NOT BE FOR YOU TO CREATE YOUR BUCKET LIST. Instead, I’d like you to create a REVERSE BUCKET LIST. In other words, I am asking you to create a list of experiences you’ve already experienced which have brought you the greatest joy and sense of accomplishment in your life to date. It could be something you did which you are extremely proud of. Could be a goal you set or a dream you had which you came to realize or accomplish. Look at this list in a positive way. The things on this REVERSE BUCKET LIST have made you very happy, even have made your more confident and increased your self esteem. YOU CAN LIST AS MANY THINGS ON THIS LIST YOU WISH. PLEASE PRIORITIZE THE LIST, in other words, what you list as #1 is the thing which has made you feel the best. Thank you. BTW – I got this idea from “Breathe Magazine“, page 9; the author was Carol Ann Strange.
Hope Life Skills alum, Hope High School 2010 graduate and presently the Community Relations Chairwoman at Millennial Rhode Island and Good Fund Loan Officer. Today’s Hope
Life Skills host was Khadiatou Njie.
Khadiatou(left) welcomes Vannessa back to Hope High School prior to the start of today’s class.
Khadiatou introduces Vannessa to her classmates at the start of today’s class
1. Watch this video, please. The rest of this assignment is meant to have you pause, think, reflect, hopefully, arouse your curiosity, stimulate creative thinking, maybe even cause you to collaborate with a smart person you know, in order to reinforce the lessons of our FUTURE FORUM, i.e. technology, specifically artificial intelligence (AI), will continue to have an increasing impact on the jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities in our future. The challenge, hopefully the excitement, for us all will be how we exploit, take advantage of, the capabilities of technology for our exciting career and/or entrepreneurial opportunities.
2. Please tell me if you could ever see your self working on a farm like the one in this video. YES or NO.Then, tell me why.
3. Please tell me if you could imagine a company you start, or work for, where you would work closely with AI(artificial intelligent) technology: robots, androids, drones, computers, computer programs, on-line portals like Amazon, etc. YES or NO. If you answer “no“, please tell me why you would not like to work at a company which uses artificial intelligent technology. If you answer “yes“, please briefly describe the company you would like to start or work for which uses some form of AI. Please send your WELL WRITTEN email answer to me with PERFECT SPELLING, SHORT SENTENCES, correct PUNCTUATION (periods, commas, etc) and grammar as soon as possible but no later than Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Please note – this assignment is not about identifying something which is probable. It’s about identifying something which might be possible!!!!! I look forward to reading your answer. Thank you.
THE NEXT VIDEO IS NOT PART OF THE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT. I’VE INCLUDED IT BECAUSE I thought some of you would be interested in watching this conversation between a human, named Carlos, and Sophia, the AI humanoid robot we observed at the FUTURE FORUM . Sophia is teaching Carlos how to meditate. After the ‘greet and meet‘ and the start of Sophia’s instruction, most of the video is silent as you observe Carlos and Sophia meditating. However, don’t miss the end of the videowhen Sophia brings Carlos out of his meditation. Interesting? Unnerving? Weird? Sad? Was Sophia disappointed Carlos had to leave? Human tendencies? What do you think? BY THE WAY, the company which created Sophia, Hanson Robotics, has created 9 robot humanoid “siblings” of Sophia named Alice, Albert Einstein Hubo, BINA48, Han, Jules, Professor Einstein, Philip K. Dick Android, Zeno, and Joey Chaos.
