Class 4 (Sept 25 ) Entrance Slip - Building for Change From the Ground Up

I had fun reading this article. The part where it talks about acknowledging where our stills are “best suited to aid the community and where [our] internal needs for creative fulfillment can be satisfied”, and “sharing the skills for making something with others” really spoke to me. This reading reminds me of my high school friend. I like to bake, and my high school friend grew up in a family where her dad likes to go fishing and her mom grows different fruits and veggies in their backyard. Whenever I bake cakes, bread, and cookies, I would share with my high school friend, and she would share with me the fish her dad catches, or the figs and lettuce that have grown in their backyard. By doing this, I felt a sense of community, and I felt proud of what I was able to bake and share with others, like the emotional boost the article mentioned. 

I don’t think globalized consumerism is completely a bad thing, as it seems like what the article is saying. Growing up in Taiwan and moving to Canada, imported goods are one of the few ways I can have access to the food I am used to eating growing up, to connect with my identity and culture. So I feel like there can be a balance between community resources and outsourced products. 

Applying to physics classes, in our pedagogy class, we were introduced to many demonstrations that can be built with cheap, accessible materials to visualize concepts for students. So instead of buying imported demonstration equipment, we can find ways to utilize what is around us to teach physics in an interactive way. Hopefully, in the end, we can be like the article says, “[create] situations that fulfill emotional, physical or spiritual needs [that] can subtly open one’s thinking to a new world of possibilities and show people what they didn’t even know they were missing”.