whatever happened to joy?
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Closing Keynote for the Discovery Educator Summer Institute in Burlington, Vermont. July 19, 2013TRANSCRIPT
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What Ever Happened to
Joy?Dean ShareskiDENSI 2013Burlington, VT
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“People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time.”
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joy /joi/
Noun
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joy /joi/
Noun
1.the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires
2.the expression or exhibition of such emotion
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Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante
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Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: Logan LaPlante
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“TO GET THE FULL VALUE OF JOY YOU MUST HAVE SOMEONE TO DIVIDE IT WITH.”
Mark Twain
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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
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It’s an end in itself.
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BE MINDFUL
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BE MINDFUL
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BE MINDFUL
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BE MINDFUL
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BE MINDFUL
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CREATE SOMETHING
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CREATE SOMETHING
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CREATE SOMETHING
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GRATITUDE
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GRATITUDE
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GRATITUDE
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TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
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TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
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TURN PSEUDO LEARNING INTO REAL LEARNING
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BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY
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BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY
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BE SILLY AND LAUGH EVERYDAY
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"There is a direct correlation between the level of happiness in one's life and the amount of silliness they allow into it." She said, "I know. I've done studies."
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"If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I’m not afraid of stupid
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I’m not afraid of stupid
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I’m not afraid of stupid
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THE FIRST WEBCAM
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Information
Joy
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We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have, from the outset,
taken each other seriously.”C.S. Lewis
“
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We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind
(and it is, in fact, the merriest kind)
which exists between people who have, from the outset,
taken each other seriously.”C.S. Lewis
“