Episodes
Friday Aug 23, 2019
TYPBST: How to Read a Book - 6CR #49
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
On the second installment of TYPBST, Darnell & Joel discuss How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
Topics include:
- Goals of reading: reading for info & understanding
- Reading as learning: learning by instruction vs discovery
- Assessing if a book is worth your time
- Being a demanding reader
- Marking up your book
https://www.sixcentsreport.com/
Reference Links:
Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable
2 Minutes Book Summary: How to Read a Book
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Friday Aug 16, 2019
We Rise Together - 6CR #48
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
The Peel District School Board's implementation of the action plan to support black male students - We Rise Together is under scrutiny. Darnell & Joel review this action plan and covering the following:
- student focus group underlying the action plan
- Other factors impacting students success beyond the school
- The student's experience section of the report
- Contrasting achievers & non-achievers
- Our experiences in school
- Positive influences on our desire to learn
Related episodes: 6CR #30 & 6CR #28
https://www.sixcentsreport.com/
Reference Links:
Here Is Why Many Peel Students Are Demanding Better Action Against Racism
Peel school board considers recommendations to enhance We Rise Together program
Parents critical of Peel School's We Rise together anti-Black racism effort
Suzanne Nurse - We Rise Together
Ep. 1462 The Moral Mess of Higher Education
Black Students' Perspectives on Academic Success
We Rise Together contact:
http://www.werisetogether.ca/index.html
Twitter: @WRT_PDSB
Email: WRT@peelsb.com
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Friday Aug 02, 2019
TYPBST: Do More Better - 6CR #46
Friday Aug 02, 2019
Friday Aug 02, 2019
On the first installment of TYPBST (Type Beast) Darnell & Joel discuss Tim Challies book Do More Better.
Topics include:
- Laziness & distractions impacting your productivity
- Busyness & perception of busyness
- Working for Good
- Intentional with your time
- Tools for organization
https://www.sixcentsreport.com/
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"The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time"
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Friday Jun 28, 2019
Dodging Oppression: Dodgeball a Tool of Oppression? - 6CR #41
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
A paper claiming dodgeball is a tool of oppression was presented by Joy Butler from the University of British Columbia and David Burns from Kwantlen Polytechnic University while presenting their research at the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Darnell & Joel have a conversation regarding dodgeball, that covers the following:
- Playing dodgeball growing up
- Reactions to audio clip from interview with Joy Butler
- Five Faces of Oppression
- Critiques of the design for gathering data
- Not all kids want to participate in gym class
- Grievance Studies affair
- Causation and Correlation
https://www.sixcentsreport.com/
Reference Articles:
IDA Dodgeball 101 - How To Play Dodgeball Rules
Dodgeball isn't just problematic, it's an unethical tool of 'oppression': researchers
Dodgeball is a tool of ‘oppression’ used to ‘dehumanize’ others, researchers argue
Professor Joy Butler’s Perspectives on Bullying and Dodgeball Game
David Staples: The world needs more dodgeball, not less of it
Twitter Pool, regarding banning Dodgeball
Don't pick on dodgeball. It's no more 'oppressive' or 'problematic' than any sport
FB post with screen shots of articles with similar title
Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
Youtube Playlist for The Grievance Studies Affair Documentary
Statistical Analysis Conclusions Explained
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Friday Oct 12, 2018
Free Speech University - 6CR #34
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Friday Oct 12, 2018
Ontario is requiring tax payer funded colleges and universities to develop their own free speech policy based on the University of Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression. Darnell & Joel discuss the various aspects of free speech:
- free speech laws in Canada vs USA
- accountable for your free speech
- restrictions on free speech: Canada's hate speech laws
- safe spaces
- society needs competing ideas
- are Christians hypocritical on free speech
https://sixcentsreport.podbean.com/
Reference Articles:
John Carpay: Ontario starts the hard work of returning free speech to universities
Upholding Free Speech on Ontario's University and College Campuses
Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canada’s law on hate speech is the embodiment of compromise
Exposure to different points of view is at the core of higher learning
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Friday Aug 17, 2018
Real Solutions to Gun Violence with Dr. Joseph Smith - 6CR #27
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Dr Joseph Smith from Generation Chosen joins Darnell & Joel to discuss what his organization is doing to address the needs of those most vulnerable in our society and consequently prevent gun violence. The conversation covers the following:
- Why youth turn to the black market and guns
- How Generation Chosen is involved in the community
- Emotional intelligence and root causes of "bad behaviour" in school
- Mental health
- Government solutions vs non-profit solutions to gun violence
https://sixcentsreport.podbean.com/
Previous episode on guns 6CR #21
Reference Articles:
City of Toronto studies why youth turn to guns
Toronto gunman had ‘severe mental health challenges,’ according to family
Remaking the Future | Education in African Countries is Crucial to Our Survival
Ford wants some mental health funding to go to police in wake of Danforth shooting
Toronto gunman had ‘severe mental health challenges,’ according to family
Toronto’s history of gun violence: a vicious cycle of missteps, intransigence and bad policy
Generation Chosen Contact info:
https://www.generationchosen.ca/
Generation Chos3n GoFundMe Campain
IG: @gen_chos3n
FB: @GenChos3n
Twitter: @GEN_CHOS3N
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Friday Jan 19, 2018
Canada an Education Super Power? - 6CR #9
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Friday Jan 19, 2018
Canada's education scores are declining but the BBC still refers to Canada as an education superpower. Darnell & Joel discuss the status of Canada's education and the merits to the BBC's claim by contrasting with a response article from the Huffington post.
How Canada became an Education Superpower
Canada Has Homework If It Wants To Be An 'Education Superpower'
Reference Articles:
Why Common Core math problems looks so weird
Student Loan Subsidies Cause Almost All of the Increase in Tuition
Equal Opportunity VS Equality of Outcome
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Friday Dec 15, 2017
Ontario's Full Day Kindergarten Program - 6CR #2
Friday Dec 15, 2017
Friday Dec 15, 2017
Ontario schools offer a play based approach as part of their two year full day kindergarten program. Darnell and Joel discuss the kindergarten program and critque the articles released in the summer of 2017 promoting its benefits.
Full-Day Kindergarten Study Evaluation
Reference Articles:
Ontario children gain learning benefits from full-day kindergarten: study
Children gain learning boost from two-year, full-day kindergarten
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