Bored...And Brilliant First Review

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  1. so today's literature lesson is a little bit different than
  2. usual. Instead of completing a first read of a new
  3. text, we're going to do a first review off.
  4. Immediate Peace is actually a podcast called Bored and Brilliant.
  5. So in this video I'll go over the pre listening
  6. activities that we typically dio.
  7. I will go over a summary of what the podcast
  8. is about, and I will go over the comprehension, check
  9. questions and answers as well.
  10. So this is the full title.
  11. Bored and brilliant.
  12. A challenge to disconnect from your phone.
  13. We will be listening to it in class.
  14. It's about a five minute podcast about this challenge, called
  15. Bored and Brilliant.
  16. If what happens when you put your phone down and
  17. sort of remove that addiction?
  18. So let's see pre watch activities.
  19. The first thing we're gonna do is analyze the title.
  20. Bored and brilliant, I want you to notice the alliteration
  21. that is used here.
  22. Bored and brilliant, we'll start with B.
  23. It has a nice ring to it.
  24. It's memorable, Thea sees, or the three dots there within
  25. the title.
  26. It's a very specific thing to add to a title
  27. you don't normally see this in the title, and it
  28. must have some kind of meaning.
  29. It must create some kind of dramatic effect.
  30. When you read it, you sort of pause after board
  31. and you read and brilliant, which is like an opposing
  32. meaning. When you think of board, you don't necessarily think
  33. of intelligence or being brilliant.
  34. So it's a very creative title, and at the beginning
  35. of class, we're going to be making inferences.
  36. Why would it be called this?
  37. All right, let's take a look here at some background.
  38. According to a survey by the research group Flurry, which
  39. is cited in this podcast, smartphones have taken over television
  40. as the most watched kind of screen in the U.
  41. S. In 2014, the average American spent almost three hours
  42. a day on his or her phone, just a little
  43. more than the average American spent watching television.
  44. Interesting to know that people use their phone screens more
  45. than they do their television screens.
  46. All Things Considered began airing in 1971 and was the
  47. first news program on National Public Radio, or NPR.
  48. It has since won numerous awards for excellence.
  49. The daily radio show mixes news stories with interviews, analysis
  50. and commentaries on the arts and culture.
  51. In 2005, NPR first started making its programs available in
  52. the form of podcasts.
  53. So this is a channel of a podcast called All
  54. Things Considered.
  55. And as usual, it's important to read a little bit
  56. of background because now we know that this is an
  57. award winning channel.
  58. It's not just any podcast.
  59. It's actually known for its excellence.
  60. All right, while we are listening to the podcast, we
  61. will be completing our first review of media.
  62. First, we're gonna listen and note who is speaking.
  63. What are they saying and how are they saying it?
  64. We will also know elements that you find interesting and
  65. want to revisit.
  66. You will connect ideas in the audio to other media
  67. that you've experienced or text that you've read or images
  68. that you've seen.
  69. It's always important to make connections, and lastly, we will
  70. move on to completing the comprehension check.
  71. We have three vocabulary terms from this podcast from the
  72. selection, the word podcast itself.
  73. It's digital audio or video file, usually part of a
  74. Siri's that can be downloaded from the Internet.
  75. Just so you know many podcasts invite listeners to leave
  76. comments or share their thoughts about the show.
  77. Some podcasts are accompanied by a transcript or come with
  78. a script as well.
  79. Host is our second word Ah hosted somebody who introduces
  80. and talks to the guests on a television or radio
  81. program. Most hosts prepare for a program by learning about
  82. the background of the guests.
  83. And interview is a recorded conversation in which someone is
  84. asked questions about his or her life, experiences or opinions.
  85. An interesting interview usually reveals new info about the person
  86. being interviewed, and the person conducting an interview typically creates
  87. a list of questions prior to or before the interview,
  88. but asks unplanned follow up questions based on the interviewees
  89. responses. All right, so these are the three vocab terms
  90. that we need to know for this lesson.
  91. Here is a summary of what is mentioned in the
  92. podcast in Bored and Brilliant, A challenge to disconnect from
  93. your phone.
  94. The host, Audie Cornish, introduces the topic of smartphone usage
  95. and interviews technology podcast host Moradi.
  96. In their conversations, um, a roadie describes how boredom can
  97. lead to creativity.
  98. The podcast also uses interviews with computers and clips from
  99. researchers to explore ideas about smartphone usage and boredom.
  100. The podcast ends with a challenge for listeners to observe,
  101. and we think they're smart phone usage.
  102. So just in general, the bored and brilliant challenge is
  103. to be researched and written about in our next lesson.
  104. So it is important that you have fully understood what
  105. they're trying to say in this podcast and what the
  106. bored and brilliant challenge is.
  107. Basically, what they're doing is they're drawing a connection between
  108. boredom and creativity.
  109. And that might answer the question of why is there
  110. those three dots in the middle of the title, which
  111. is comparing very opposing words, bored and brilliant?
  112. And it's because the point of their podcast is they
  113. believe that sometimes being bored and putting your phone down
  114. can lead to your most creative ideas.
  115. It's a very interesting concept.
  116. I personally have never thought of this before, and that's
  117. why listening to this podcast will be very interesting and
  118. informative. Let's take a look at the comprehension check questions.
  119. The first one says, on average, about how long do
  120. cell phone users spend on their phones each day it
  121. is mentioned early on in the podcast.
  122. Cell phone users spend on average three hours a day
  123. on their phones.
  124. That's a shocking number.
  125. Okay, Number two, what are we really doing?
  126. When quote, we think we're doing nothing.
  127. Also mentioned in the podcast.
  128. We are daydreaming and coming up with our most original
  129. ideas. Sometimes boredom does lead to your most creative, intelligent
  130. thoughts. And finally, number three.
  131. What did Dr Sandy Man research and what did she
  132. find out?
  133. This is later on.
  134. In the podcast, she researched the connection between boredom and
  135. creativity. She made people do something really boring and then
  136. do a creative task.
  137. They came up with their most creative ideas after they
  138. read a phone book, which is an example of the
  139. most boring thing you could possibly do.
  140. So she sort sort of didn't experiment to test.
  141. Does boredom potentially lead to creativity?
  142. And based on her research, Yes, it does.
  143. All right, So this is what we're gonna be working
  144. on in this lesson.
  145. Check out the self assessment on today's you see page,
  146. just to check for your understanding, and in our next
  147. class, we will be doing analyze the text