WEEK 1
What do you hope to understand,
or know, better at the end of the semester?
I want to be a better leader that
can take on projects, able of mentoring a team regarding with teamwork,
professionalism and time management. I want to learn and hone my management
skills, as I help manage other students, workflow, deadlines, and client
interaction. I want to understand the value of, and effective strategies for,
community engagement. I want to learn and hone collaboration and cooperation
skills. I want generate work for my own professional and academic portfolio.
Reading Reflection: “The Troubled Craftsman,” by Richard Sennett
For my reading reflection I
simply extracted all the quotes that got me interested and motivated about the
reading. I feel that I needed to do this exercise – of typing quotes – short
phrases like these to help me remember things better and help me become more
engaging during group conversation.
Individual and Community – Problem
seeking and imagination: “skills progresses…become more attuned…people with
primitive levels of skills struggle more exclusively on getting things to
work.” “Technical skill has been removed from imagination” “craftwork…brought
people out of the isolation.” “Great technical skills but whose talents earned
them no political recognition or rights.” “To become skilled required,
personally, that one be obedient.” “…the aspiration for quality will drive a
craftsman to improve…” “The unity…between skill and community…weakened.” “..Available to anyone…employed and adapted
by anyone; people donate time to improve it.” “..How can quality of knowledge
coexist with free and equal exchange in a community?” “…about solving problems,
about solutions that end task, about closure.” “…problem solving and problem
finding.” “The desire to work hard and well…for the sake of the
community….competition…competing against others stimulates the desire to
perform well.” “People – in general – don’t care; they are demoralized.”
“..again and again in his mind before setting them in ink.” “Going over an
action again and again…enables self-criticism.” “Skill development depends on
how repletion is organized.” “You think and you do at the same time. You draw
and you make. Drawing…is revisited. You do it, you redo it, and you redo it
again.” “…Disconnection between head and hand in design: the idea of a thing
made complete in conception before it is constructed…disconnect between
simulation and reality.” “Simulation can
be a poor substitute for tactile experience.” “..how to think like a craftsman
in making good use of technology.” “the head and the hand are not simply
separated intellectually but socially.” “…difference between correctness and
functionality…the point is to finish so
that the piece can be used.” “..People train and practice in developing a
skill, the more practical minded they will become, focusing on the possible and
the particular.” “…the machine is a better craftsman than a person.” “To do
good work means to be curious about, to investigate, and to learn from
ambiguity.” “..curiosity and experiment..” “People have to learn how to put the
changes into practice ..” “..joined skill and community.” “three troubled
ways…institutions motivate people to work well….developing skill…conflicting
measure of quality, one based on correctness, the other on practical
experience.”
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