Reverence
According to Woodruff, this begins with recognizing human limitations.
What is reverence?
This element of the CREATIVE model of learning replaces math and science in the STEM model of learning.
What is calculation?
Outdoor learning and experiences can help bridge the distance between people and this.
What is the environment?
The value of Bitcoin is an example of this; something that has value because we collectively agree it does.
What is intersubjectivity?
Shane was gifted a shirt from his class with the image of a Rubik’s cube on the front and this saying on the back.
What is a gatekeeper?
It’s argued that satellite imagery and space travel have reduced Earth to an object of knowledge rather than this.
What is a site of dwelling?
This subject provides the language that the natural sciences aspire to describe and analyze the universe.
What is math/mathematics?
Child and youth workers can spark youth’s curiosity by shifting from “facts” to this.
What is open-ended exploration/wonder/inquiry?
Youth who question how algorithms shape their views and beliefs are building this form of literacy.
What is media/digital literacy?
This animal, rocking cool shades, was Shane’s way of showing us that sometimes we need new lenses to stop pecking each other apart.
What is a chicken?
In Green culture, reverence was seen as the opposite of this destructive human flaw.
What is hubris (or arrogance, or excessive pride)?
In the CREATIVE model, Calculation is designed to foster this emotional state in learners.
What is humility (modesty, acceptance of limits, recognizing human limitations)
When youth learn that their everyday actions carry hidden costs they are learning about this ecological truth.
What is interconnection?
The third degree of power influences decisions invisibly through these.
What is culture/media?
hinking that all boys are troublemakers and treating them that way is an example of this classic “Shaneism”.
What is “As we think, so do we act?”
Reverence requires awe for something that is beyond human control, creation, or full understanding. Name one.
Something that is not created by humans, not fully understood, or something transcendent.
Yuval Noah Harari argued that the greatest scientific discovery was this.
What is ignorance?
Encouraging youth to ask questions and explore ideas that don’t have clear answers can help them practice this attitude towards learning.
What is humility/openness to limits?
This concept is tied to colonization of the mind and describes the control of youth’s thoughts through technology, social media, and data.
What is digital colonialism?
Shane sailed across this body of water and uses this experience to share his catalyst for his sense of reverence.
What is the Bay of Fundy?
SEA CHANGE QUESTION! Shane cites Kovac’s definition of a reverent scientist as having awe for majesty, mystery, subtlety and this final, obvious, quality of nature.
What is beauty?
The example of ancient Romans struggling to write “one million” shows that math is the product of this, like other knowledge.
What is human invention/creativity?
Integrating reverence and calculation into their practice gives child and youth workers the tools to confront these systemic challenges.
What are inequality/climate change/social crisies/ecological crisies?
Helping youth explore how hidden messaging, influence, and power works gives them the tools to become this rather than passive consumers.
What are active citizens/critical thinkers/critical citizens?
SEA CHANGE Question DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The ending of Shane’s paper ‘Sea Change’ reminds us of the tension between what can be done and what cannot.
What is: “For just as we mayest… We mayest not.”