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Similarly, the three questions in the "After You Watch" on page 81 of Skillful invite you to relate the ideas in the video to your own life and give your own opinions (Rogers & Zemach, 2018).
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Response
There are two reasons for doing Rogers and Zemach's critical thinking exercises as blog discussions. First, there is solid evidence that putting ideas in writing, especially online, improves the quality and variety of ideas since each person can formulate and write down their ideas independently, so that a single strong personality does not dominate the group and thereby suppress ideas that we want to get (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2015; Markman, 2017; O'Connell, 2010). Second, this is a reading and writing class, so it's sensible to practice putting our ideas down quickly in writing, which also gives us a chance to review them before publishing for others to read and respond to.Note: my cited sources on the value of independent and online brainstorming, which I think also apply to our critical thinking exercises, are all from the Harvard Business Review. Don't read them now, but if you are interested in following them up, the full reference citations, including the links to each, are in the list of references below.
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Questions to discuss
- What do you know about nomadic people living in your country?
- How do you think the lives of Darimaa and Tsogldragraleh are different now that they live near a city?
- Should governments do more to support nomadic lifestyles? What can they do?
Think for a minute or two, making some quick notes if you like; then in a comment below, write a short paragraph or two, or three if you like, to tell us your ideas in response to these questions. You should spend most of your time on the last question, which the first two lead to.
You have 15:00 minutes. I suggest you: plan for 3:00 minutes, write for 9:00; and then edit for 3:00.
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References
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015, April 2). Why brainstorming works better online. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-brainstorming-works-better-online
- Markman, A. (2017, May 18). Your team is brainstorming all wrong. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/05/your-team-is-brainstorming-all-wrong
- O'Connell, A. (2010, February 4). Sometimes, it’s better to brainstorm alone. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2010/02/when-its-better-to-brainstorm
- Rogers, L. & Zemach, D. E. (2018). Skillful 3: Reading & Writing (2nd. ed.). London: Macmillan Education
In Australia, the native Aboriginal people were nomadic. They moved around the country, including the vast desert areas of central Australia, but also the fertile coastal areas. After my ancestors and other Europeans invaded, the lives of the Aboriginal people were radically changed. THe Europeans tool all the rich land, and left the original inhabitants the desert areas. But Westerners also stopped the nomadic life style. The Aborigines of Australia were forced to live in towns, which meant an end to their traditions. The result was a disaster: many died of illnesses they got from white people (white people also killed a lot of the natives), their traditions of thousands of years were destroyed, their society fell apart, and the result we see today is drug addiction, especially to alcohol, high unemployment, low education, and being socially outcast by the richer white society of the invaders, such as my ancestors. Weirdly, and very unjustly, many white people blame the Aborigines for being drunk, jobless, and poor. The truth is that it's the rich Europeans who made them that way. We created the problems for the Aboriginals.
ReplyDeleteShould governments do more to support nomadic lifestyles? THis is a difficult question. I don't think it's possible to maintain old ways, and many of the people in those traditional lifestyles probably don't want to keep them. Should young people who see other lifestyles, other possibilities be forced by the law to copy their parents' lifestyles? That sounds very unjust to me. I think that traditional lifestyles can be good, but if people are forced to follow them, whether by the government making laws to, for example, ban alcohol, or ban sex outside of marriage, then the tradition is not beig freely chosen, but forced on people who might not want it. That seems wrong to me. I thikn governments should protect people and not make laws to oppose traditional lifestyles, but they should not actively seek to compel people to follow them. Local schools, for example, should have the option of deciding whether they will teach local culture, including the local language. But it's for the community to decide, not politicians in a capital city.
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ReplyDeleteIn Thailand nomadic people are up north and deep down the south. For example, hill tribe in north and forest tribe in the south. Their live depend on the nature resources. They finding food from the wood they live on the hill or in a deep wood and cut out from the city.
ReplyDeleteRefer to the video, the couple have to change their lifestyles when they live near a city because the might not have enough space to do farming and agriculture, so they have to adapt themselves with the city.
The governments should support nomadic lifestyles to help them have a better life in a restrict area so the nature are safe and help nomadic people having a better life.
Q1: I have a few knowledges about nomadic people living in Thailand, but I think in Thailand now, we don’t have or very rare because of in Thailand we don’t have many meadow or we have some meadow that been own by someone.
ReplyDeleteQ2: I think they have a different life than yesterday because they come from another place, to near the city they must adjust themselves.
Q3: Yes, I think the governments should support nomadic lifestyle because today, we have many changing many things before yesterday, maybe they should be support in education and working. I think education and working it can help everything because if the government give only money, it can’t help them, if give the education and working, they can find the money by them selves.
In Thailand we have many tribe like Orang Laut who usually live near the sea and have a tradition link with the sea. But now they facing a problem about they own land cause developer try to occupy the land around that such as Samui.
ReplyDeleteSo I think the government should concern more about it. they need to look more way peacefully to combine the old world with the new world cause no one should leave behind. everyone deserve a good life, they should get house medicine cloth. we can find a way to live together via the tribe and the Capitalism.
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ReplyDelete1. In Thailand, I think there were some nomadic people who did shifting cultivation, but today their lives are changing from the past because of urbanization and modern technology. However, there is a new type of nomadic people today known as “digital nomadic.” These groups of people are people who work online and like to go to other countries to work in a co-working space or coffee shop.
ReplyDelete2. Their lives are definitely changed from the traditional ways of life as cities are expanding. For example, their lives would be more dependent on cities like buying or selling goods. Furthermore, some new generations of nomads may go to find jobs in the cities instead of keeping traditional ways of life.
3. I don’t think that governments should support nomadic lifestyles, but not destroy it also. Because sometimes, nomadic lifestyles can be unfriendly to the environment. For example, nomadic pastoralism could cause problems overgrazing and desertification. Also, shifting cultivation of traditional tribes, for instance, in Southeast Asia, could cause severe forest fires and air pollution.