To Get to the Other Side - Episode 3: The Stories that Data Tell
Defining Data:
What we call data is our modern way of seeing the parts of a whole bunch of stories at one time to understand patterns.
Before digging into initial thoughts about the podcast, get the whiteboard up on zoom and make a KWL chart. What do you
K
now about data, what do you
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ant to know about data. Discuss, Share, and Listen to thoughts around this weeks podcast.
But emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for. --Emergent Strategy pg 3
Story time:
Just like tracking our health, we each get information from all the personal interactions we are a part of, and it’s worth asking questions about how we use that to make more meaning than the simple stories we’ve been “dealt”.
Tell your stories about the #homeworkpractice! Today and this week - notice times when your assumptions about something or someone turned out to be wrong. Pause for a moment to consider what the assumption was, what it was based on (gender? age? language? appearance?) Consider whether that assumption is something you want to carry forward with you.
Closing:
Check in with your KWL chart on the whiteboard (or however you did it!) Share one thing you learned during this time to the L column.
I'll leave you with a little bit of how I think the poet William Blake saw data all around us:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour