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>> I'm very happy to introduce to you Dan Kwong.
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>> Hello, I'm Bill Onigiri [phonetic].
Coming up next on Channel 4 News Sports,
Tracy Toobright [phonetic] reporting live from Queen
of Angel's Hospital Maternity Ward.
Tracy?
>> That's right, Bill.
I'm here with newborn Asian-American baby boy,
Daniel Kit Kwong [phonetic] who's just been delivered
at Queen of Angel's Hospital in Los Angeles.
Daniel, welcome to the human race.
Tell us, how was the delivery?
>> Well, thanks Tracy.
Delivery went pretty smooth.
Mom had an epidural so I wasn't all drugged up when I came out.
I've been working real hard preparing for this.
I'm just really glad to be here.
[Laughter]
>> What about your position as the only son with three sisters?
Any thoughts about the upcoming series
with oppressive attitudes directed specifically
towards males?
>> Well, being the only son, I know I'm going to be expected
to drive in a lot of sexism on my sisters.
So, you know, I'm confident I can get used
to the special mistreatment and brutality reserved for us males.
>> Dan, one last question, what about the insidious effects
of racism in conjunction with the oppression of males?
How do you anticipate handling that challenge?
>> Well, Tracy, I know it won't be easy.
Probably get pretty confusing at times.
Probably have to deal with some feelings of shame
and humiliation about this exquisite Asian male body
of mine.
[laughter] We know I'm really confident.
I can ultimately overcome any racist emasculation
as an Asian man in this country, and--
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>> Well, Dan, congratulations on your postpartum debut.
Good luck to you.
And I hope we'll be seeing a lot more of you
in the coming lifetime.
>> Thank you very much.
>> This is Tracy Toobright reporting live from Queen
of Angel's Hospital in Los Angeles.
Back to you, Bill.
>> Thank you, Tracy.
Sounds like a pretty weird baby.
Well, that's all for Channel 4 News.
Coming up next, more performance art.
Stay tuned.
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>> Thank you everyone.
Actually, this is a for students by students event.
What we hope is through this kind of presentation,
students actually have their ownership
of their math learning.
It's not anymore like "This is from the textbook.
This is from my teacher."
No, this is from you, your own discovery.
And you connect math to your daily life,
everything that you see, everything that you feel,
you touch, all has something to do with math.
Am I correct?
>> Yeah.
>> Yes.
>> Especially this.
This is iPad mini.
We are going to give this out as the, I think the winner
for the raffle ticket.
>> Okay. You didn't come here to listen to me draw numbers.
Again, we have another distinguished guest
from Caltech.
It's nice that we had that relationship over the years.
There's several relationships here, Caltech,
and Dr. Ho from Caltech, Applied Mathematics
and Computational Mathematics.
He's here to tell us about how mathematics improves the quality
of our life which, you know, just the air conditioning
and the lights, just about everything that we enjoy,
creature comfort wise is mathematically based.
But he's going to give you a lot more interesting things
than that.
He's a professor of applied-- I said Applied Mathematics
and Computation Mathematics, the Charles Lee Powell professor.
So, Dr. Ho, welcome.
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>> Good afternoon everyone.
I'm very pleased to be here today to participate
and celebrate the Pi Day before review.
I'm very impressed the room is packed.
I've thought that there'd be only very few people
who show up, I would do anyway.
So, but there's several purpose I--
several message I would like to convey today.
So first of all, for many of you, maybe you would think
that mathematic is hard, right?
Maybe something that may--
whenever I travel on the airplane and somebody--
go somewhere, people ask me, "What do you do?"
I say I'm a professor in mathematics.
Almost 90 some percent of people say "Oh, mathematics.
The subject I hate.
Not doing well, you know?"
So I guess many of you may share that feeling.
But today I want to tell you actually
if you learn mathematics well,
although there was a steep learning curve,
but it will pay off very well.
So-- and we are going to illustrate through many,
many examples that if you know--
if you master mathematics to some level,
you really have an edge over other people, in your career,
in your life, you can be rich and famous and a lot
of interesting thing could happen
because you know mathematics, okay?
So let me start with this slide.
So it is the O slide.
It is a photograph from Los Angeles Times almost 15
years ago.
I think it's very appropriate for this audience, right?
Because it's say-- look at the title.
Mathematics equal to fear, right?
For a two-year college.
I think PCC is like a two-year college.
Why is it a fear?
Because for many students, this subject,
it is a [inaudible] step that brought them from a career,
an excellent career, maybe brought them from a chancellor
because they're not getting good grade
because maybe they're not doing so well
in some of the math course.
So many people kind of dislike mathematics, right?
So the teachers in mathematic division had to struggle
to inspire them, like my wife.
She worry all day and night trying to find a good way,
innovative way to inspire student because the student,
once you've disliked a subject you shut out--
you shut up your mind and say "I don't like it."
Once you tell yourself "I don't like this subject,"
you refuse to learn it, right?
So that is a vicious cycle.
But today, I want to tell you that it's not that bad.
Actually, there's a lot of fun, a lot of good thing have come
up because of mathematics.
So let's start with this page, the follow up detail
of Los Angeles Times reporting.
So, many people will say, "Well, mathematics is hard," right?
It's not-- it's too abstract.
I don't know why it is useful to-- anything connect--
anything connection to our daily life.
So mathematician, as you see from this TV movie like
"A Beautiful Mind," you think that mathematician lead
to be too nerdy, right?
Not a normal human being, right?
So, well, they are smart, but I don't want
to be one of them, right?
So, and-- on the other hand, if you talk to engineer
or to other scientists, because we have taught mathematics,
so well, so many of them they learn--
they know mathematics as well as a mathematician.
So we do not monopolize the subject, right?
So many people, especially at Caltech, we used to teach--
there's a huge class called ACN-95, introduction
to mathematics, method of mathematics.
Because we taught them so well,
many undergraduate student hate it and they think it's tough.
But after they've gone through it, they went to college,
to Berkeley, to Stanford, to Princeton,
they found that they're much better prepared than their peer.
And also in Hollywood, there's a lot of special effect that the--
actually the people from UCLA, Stanley Osher and then some
of his student, many-- some of the special effect, the--
I'm going to show you some of the example,
actually behind there is a [inaudible] equation,
numerical method.
So the [inaudible] in mathematics because some
of these, the special effect, you cannot really do it
by view tag, right, because it is too expensive.
They're very hard to manipulate but you can do it by computer
through numerical methods.
And special effects in new movie like Titanic and too many.
The three [inaudible] and medical image MRI, right?
So, a C-- CAT, right?
A computed axial tomography and then--
it may not be so the high numbers is mathematics.
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>> Who's interested in trying this?
How about the individuals right here right now?
All right.
Oh, you just see his shoulder.
[Inaudible] get this [inaudible] get--
[Inaudible Remark] That's right,
in [inaudible] your card would line up.
[Inaudible Remark] Get going.
>> Oh.
>> And come up right there guys.
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>> Hi, we're back.
I'm Juan Gutierrez, Director, Public Relations here
at Pasadena City College and it is an absolute pleasure
to have Noel Janis-Norton here as our special guest.
She is the author of "Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting".
And she also came and visited our Community Education Center
last week.
Thank you so much for joining us again.
>> I'm delighted to be here.
>> So, we have folks from time to time come
to campus known locally at California nationally
but not internationally.
So, tell me a little bit of why it was important to you
or to accept our invitation to come to PCC?
>> I want to spread the word
about how parenting can be calmer, easier and happier
to any parent who wants to learn how.
>> Excellent.
Now tell me about the book.
What got you to write this book?
>> Well, over the years,
I learned some really useful strategies.
And I know from my work with parents
that they love learning how
to help children become more cooperative in particular.
And by that, I mean, one of the main frustrations
for parents is telling kids to do things
and the kids don't do it the first time.
And parents end up repeating and reminding.
It's really frustrating.
So, parents love it when they find
out that there are strategies that will help children
to listen and do what they're told the first time.
>> Excellent.
Now, let's talk a little bit about trends because, you know,
back in maybe the '50s or the '40s or, you know,
corporal punishment so to speak
which my dad was very interested in.
And as we got more progressive there were timeouts
and things like that.
So what trends do you see now as far as parenting?
>> Well sadly, the trends that I see is that parents more
and more are giving up their authority.
And it's the child who's making the decisions.
And the problem with that is the children don't have the
experience and the maturity and the wisdom
as the parents who have that.
>> So do parents treat their children more like equals
and friends rather than actually the relationship
that it should be parent-child?
>> I think there's a lot of that that parents are worried
that if they insist on certain behavior that somehow
that will traumatize the child.
But actually, children appreciate it
and they behave better and they feel better.
>> So it's important to set up boundaries early on and kind
of define that relationship.
Correct?
>> Yes. Exactly.
And not allow children to negotiate.
>> Now say it's past the initial stages
and this child becomes defiant.
What are some tips that you have or is there any way to turn,
you know, that relationship around?
>> Well, luckily there is.
And many parents want to know that because parents say
to me, "Is it too late?"
And they could be saying that of a 5-year-old or a 15-year-old
or even a 25-year-old, and it's never too late.
And one of the things to--
for parents to remember is
that in even the most loving household, children tend
to get more attention when they misbehave than when they behave.
And because children want our attention and need it
and deserve it and thrive on it, they will tend to do more
of whatever gets them that attention.
But we can reverse this by making sure
to pay attention to the okay behavior.
And in my book, I talk about a particular strategy that's
called descriptive praise for parents to learn.
'Cause the usual kind of praise is wow, terrific, good job,
awesome, and that doesn't have much of a motivating effect.
But descriptive praise is about noticing
and mentioning exactly what the child is doing that's okay.
And the more children hear that the more they want to do that,
'cause they want the attention,
they want to please their parents.
So it can transform even a defiant child
into a cooperative confident child.
>> That's encouraging to hear.
Does that particular tip work for all types of kids?
And what I'm saying is there's obviously different backgrounds,
ethnicities and then there's always special needs.
So, is this a one size fits all or different techniques
for a different child?
>> It is a one size fits all because all children are humans
and these are basic human communication skills.
So they work with children who have special needs,
they work with all ages, with both genders.
They work with children from all different kinds of backgrounds.
>> Oh, excellent.
>> Yeah.
>> Now let me ask you what-- how did you get into this?
I mean, obviously, a lot of people are parents,
a lot of people have techniques that work
for them or may not work.
And if-- well, I mean, what got you motivated enough
to write the book to go out and spread these techniques?
>> Well, I've seen that they work.
So, I want to share that.
If you're asking how did I get into this field
in the first place, I started out as a classroom teacher
and I soon discovered that what worked
in the classroom also works when the parents put it
into practice at home.
Parents would ask me how do I get my kid to do his homework
or how do I get him to go to bed?
And when I suggested to them that they put
into practice the same things I was doing in the classroom,
they would come back in a few days and say, "Yes, it works."
So that's when I realized that a huge component
of parenting is actually teaching.
>> Now you said a few days, and I just caught on to that.
So, how-- and I know every case is different,
but how quickly can someone see results.
Is it immediate?
Do you see the reaction in the child's face
or is it a longer term process depending
as like a case by case [inaudible]?
>> Well it's both.
But generally, parents will start to see improvements
within a few days, sometimes even within a few hours.
But of course, the more they practice these strategies,
the more improvements they'll see.
The child will become more cooperative, more confident,
more motivated, more self-reliant, more considerate,
more of all the qualities that that parent wants
to transmit to the child.
>> Now that-- and [inaudible] it's consistency,
it's establishing boundaries.
Now, in certain scenarios there's unfortunately a lot
of divorce in the country and there are kids
that go spend weekends and weeks with different parents.
So, is there a strategy for say one parent trying to try this
and then the child goes away for the weekend
and it's not being administered there?
So, how would you approach that or is there something
that a single parent can do in that situation?
>> Well of course it would be ideal if both parents signed
up to the same strategies but that's unlikely
because they're divorcing because they have differences.
So, often parents want to know
if one parent does it, is that enough?
And the answer is yes or no, that the child will improve
with that parent but may or may not improve
with the parent who's being more lax or more angry.
>> Yeah. Because, you know,
that type of situation is prevalent here in United States
and I think it's probably around the world as well.
>> Sure.
>> You came to our Community Education Center,
we have parenting classes.
>> Uh-hmm.
>> Gia Blount who's one
of the instructor there who's wonderful brought you in,
sold out the house, so to speak, filled the room.
>> It was a great group of parents.
>> Yeah.
>> And that's about 120.
>> Yes. And-- [Inaudible Remark]
And they were very interested and very talkative.
What did you hear from this--
the parents that were at that event?
What were the questions that keep coming out to you?
>> The main questions that keep coming up at PCC
or anywhere are how to get kids
to do what they're supposed to do.
Which falls into two categories, how to get kids
to do what we tell them to do in the first time
and without making a fuss or arguing, but also how
to get kids to remember the rules so that parents don't have
to tell them every single time.
>> Now is there an aha moment
with the child maybe they've been acting up or maybe not
and they-- a parent uses these strategies
and at some point maybe comes at maturity
or maybe it's past being a teenager,
maybe it's just a natural progression,
but is there a moment where they realize my parents have my
interest at heart, that maybe I should listen a little bit more.
Or is that different from child to child?
>> I don't think there's one moment.
I think it's the children gradually can drift
into good habits
or unfortunately they could gradually drift
into bad habits depending on the environment,
depending on what parents do.
>> Now, I know you're going back to England.
>> But I'll be back.
>> That's what I was going to ask you.
>> Yeah.
>> When will you be back?
>> In October.
>> Okay. Here on the Southern California--
>> Yeah.
>> And do you want to plug anything?
We'd love to let our viewers know
where they can actually meet you in person and maybe sign
up for either the book signings or lectures or things like that.
>> Well, each time that I come, I stay for a whole month
and I do a variety of things.
I do a lot of talks, some for the public,
some for particular organizations or schools.
I do courses, I do seminars,
I do consultations, I do book signings.
So, what we suggest is that if anybody is interested
in learning about all of that, that they visit our website
and give us their email address
and then we'll keep them informed of everything.
>> Excellent.
>> So I can tell you what the email address--
or what the website is if you like.
>> That will be great.
>> Yeah. It's calmerparenting.com.
>> Excellent.
And just last thing.
I'm sure people are watching this right now
and they're going, I wish I could ask her this question,
I'm just going to maybe throw in out there
that a viewer might have is my child doesn't want
to do their homework, how should I approach this?
>> Just start by recognizing as I said before,
the children want the approval of their parents.
And often they end up getting the negative attention
because that's so much easier to get.
So what I would advise a parent
to do is start noticing all the things your child is doing right
about homework.
So let's say he's not doing his homework yet
but at least he's come to the table,
so then you could say you're sitting in the right place,
you're ready to do your homework.
Let's say they've opened their book
but there's no pen or pencil in sight.
So instead of saying,
"For goodness sakes you're not ready,"
instead of that you would say, "You've opened your book.
You're getting ready to do your homework."
And those seem like such tiny things.
It seems as if it wouldn't make any difference
but children really are influenced by what we say.
So we need to be careful what we say and one
of the most effective things to say is this descriptive praise
that I talked about where we describe what children are doing
that's okay.
>> Thank you so much for joining us.
Our guest has been Noel Janis-Norton and the book is
"Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting".
Thank you again.
>> Thank you.
>> We want to have you back, so--
>> I would love to.
>> We'll be right back.
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>> [Background Music] Hey it's Charlotte [phonetic].
We're back again with PCC Today Show.
We're out here in front of the L Building to show you this.
And here we are at the new Associate Students [inaudible],
they will be building another one by the way,
and I used to have a bike, got stolen from my mom.
But if I had a bike I'd totally use this bad boy.
Check this out.
Pumpy, pumpy hear that air, oh fresh, touching my hand.
We got some tools here.
I'm not really sure what they're
for 'cause I have paid other people to fix my bike.
Keeping it classy y'all.
Well, this is quite cheaper
and if I still have my bike I'll probably use that.
Anyway, they put your bike up here apparently.
You lock it up, you do your duty, you take your bike up
and then you ride away.
And we will be interviewing a Mr. Juan Diego Ashton from AS.
He is the vice president of sustainability.
He's the reason why this is here today.
So, hopefully we'll begin the interview with him very soon
and thanking him for this awesome project.
We'll be back right after this.
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>> On behalf of all the faculty, staff, and students
of Pasadena City College, we welcome you
to this very special day.
Our past has been proud and our future is global.
>> My name is Hubert and I'm a sophomore
at the Developing Virtue Secondary School.
I am 15 years old.
And today we're going to talk
about how the 24 seasons drumming relates
to the 24 seasons.
So, in ancient China, the drum, the instrument,
was used in many things and so in wars they use the drum
to tell the soldiers whether to advance or retreat
and they use-- they use drums in celebrations and parties.
So drum was a really important instrument in Chinese culture.
And so let's [inaudible] and talk
about how it relates in agriculture.
>> Okay. So in ancient times,
the Chinese used their [inaudible] change
in weather throughout the year to determine at what time
of the year to do what.
So how are we as Chinese civilization advanced,
they found that there is not a clear system for them to follow.
Some people might be farming here
and some other guy might be harvesting already.
So they invented a system that match
out all these weather changes and make it much easier
to predict the weather changes, which is the 24 season drum
that they came up with.
And later on, the 24 seasons became an essential part
in Chinese culture because it give instructions
to the Chinese farmers at which time they could--
it's the best time to plant or to harvest or to celebrate.
Okay, so now Benjamin is going to tell us the characteristics
of 24 season drumming.
>> Well, as most of you already know,
24 seasons is based on the 24 seasons.
I mean the drumming itself is based on the 24 seasons
and a lot of agricultural techniques.
Well, in this particular drumming technique,
we all also implement a lot
of martial arts techniques into it too.
So, as an audience you will see a lot of body movements,
you will see a lot of jumping, you will hear a lot of shouting
and occasionally, you might even see people moving the
drums around.
So, a lot of times drumming is like a sport
like basketball or like soccer.
You will see individual skills
and you would also see team skills.
Well individually, sometimes you will see drummers just hitting
the drums by themselves.
And on other times the whole team has to synchronize.
So, when the synchronization is done really well,
you can stand back and you can close your eyes and you'll hear
as if only one person is actually hitting the drum.
So, this is how powerful it is.
>> So, we're going to end it with one last beat.
And it's called Joe beat because a guy named Joe invented it.
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[ Drumbeat ]
That's what the drums [inaudible].
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