3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Issue #255, 27th May 2025

What are your blind spots? As a parent, educator, or student? How do you manage those biases that fester in your blind spot? Here are some ideas that might trigger your thoughts in that direction.

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Three Images of the Week

Two Thoughts of the Week

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren’t blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That’s right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn’t consult you about this, doesn’t seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

• Daniel Gilbert

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

• Libba Bray

One Video of the Week

Dr Sasha Vassar invites audiences to rethink how information overload shapes perception, revealing how collaboration and fresh perspectives can unlock hidden insights. Where others see superfluity, Vassar recognises hidden patterns; turning the chaos of learning into something luminous. Award-winning researcher and educator Dr. Sasha Vassar bridges computer science, biomedical engineering, and pedagogy, pioneering generative AI tools to enhance learning.

And finally… against all odds

Bhadrasen Negi, VIDYA star alumni – In conversation with Nivedita He worked his way through many homes and realised his dream of becoming an engineer. Here’s an awe inspiring story of how an 8 year old boy from a shepherd family in remote Kinnaur village of Himachal is today leading a successful like of a husband, father and a computer scientist in Los Angeles.

Meet Bhadrasen Negi, Senior Application Developer at Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Internal Services Department Long Beach, California, United States.

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I work with the school leadership team as an advisor and collaborate with teachers as a pedagogical trainer. I also help parents as a parenting counselor and regularly engage one-on-one with students as a personal guide and mentor. This weekly newsletter shares what I read, learn, and experience.

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