Flicks, Clicks & Flips

Good Will Hunting: Authenticity

Flick: A Boston Bar History Lesson from Good Will Hunting

This clip shows how a seemingly uneducated Will Hunting has a more rigorous understanding of content than someone who has gone to school. It shows it isn’t the college degree but the understanding of the content and what you do with it.

Click: “Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

              “At least I won’t be unoriginal”

Flip: Real to fake – fake to real, life to text and text to life, Class and culture, the development of the self, how we learn in college are all flipped around in this segment.

Article: Living Literacy: A Cycle of Text to Life and Life to Text

Activity: Please Understand Me II – get into pairs and use the Please Understand Me Inventory to figure out who you are and how you should act as a leader.