o Week Two Curiosity Video Response o
Good afternoon everyone!
I have watched the Cultivating Curiosity video of the week and it really hit home. This week the video was about why learning isn't enjoyable anymore and how to revive curiosity when we get to this point. In the beginning, where he describes the passion for learning in high school and the loss of that in college, hit the most for me. It hit home because I feel like that was exactly what happened to me in my first year of college. I was excited to be in university, something I had looked forward to my entire life.
I didn't acknowledge that I had become a statistic for my grades essentially until I started looking into applying to colleges during my freshman year of high school. I remember learning being something I did well at naturally. When needing 'good enough grades to get into college though, I feel my mindset toward grades changed drastically.
After this change, I saw grades as end all be all. I needed the high grade, or else I would get in trouble. Whether this was real trouble or imaginary trouble, the fear this instilled in me controlled my life for years and years to come.
I do consider myself to be a curious person. I think the difference is how often I am able to be curious. I see it like being a skater. I can like to skate, but if I am not skating everyday, I'm not gonna get good at skating. I love to create new items with my bare hands like the self proclaimed artist I am. I really feel like my arms are tools and can create anything they put their mind to, but I don't have the means to do said artistic things. I think what makes someone curious is the yearning to learn about something more than the surface level knowledge. I think someone who is curious about video game development would look into code language and someone who isn't would look at an ad and put it down.
I recently thought about how I am curious about ceramics beyond any other tasks, so my roommate and I attended a ceramic class where we had to paint and carve into ceramic plates with glaze and I felt the passion that I had once felt towards the art form before. I feel that coming into this new era of my life, I am realizing who I am. And that is what I am curious about going forward: figuring out who I am.
Anyways, See You Next Time,
MW
Hello Mitiana! I think this topic was something that a lot of students could relate to, especially students who were really affected during the pandemic. We were all so excited to learn in the classes we personally chose for ourselves and that pertained to the major we chose. But then we actually experience how learning really is and after the pandemic learning changed. It wasn't about retaining the information and fully learning how things work, it was about maintaining a grade that kept us alive for the rest of our high school career, which has now transferred to college. Topics just seem too boring to learn so we don't care to learn about it to much. There's no motivation or passion to fully learn or research about most of the things our classes are teaching us. We're all just getting by doing our work sufficient enough for the letter grade that we want because in the end that's all that goes on our transcripts and it sucks that a singular letter defines our future.
ReplyDeleteHi Jasmine! I totally understand and feel you with this comment. I feel like I have no motivation to do anything and it is only causing harm. I wonder if there were generations before this one who have experienced something like this. Is this boredom the cause of COVID disrupting us, or would college and life felt like this even if the pandemic never happened? Just a question for thought. Thanks for commenting!
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