As an educator, reflect on how Adichie's TED Talk might help our community, our school, and your classroom. Over the years of working at Sweet Home, the student population of the school has changed and become much more diverse than when I started in 1995. The children have stories to share that are vastly different from my own experience. I have had to adapt and learn to listen to the children’s stories to better understand them. The danger of the single story is very real and our community, school, and classroom need to be open to listening to the actual experiences the children have to share and not let our single story color their lives. Why do you suppose the video from Part 1 "What Makes History Useable," paired with the TED Talk "The Danger of a Single Story?"The gist of what makes history usable is that one must dig deeper into the past stories of a community to form a more complete picture of the history of a community. This idea is very similar to the idea of “the danger of a single story”. If we form a picture of the history of Buffalo based on one story told without uncovering the millions of other stories that have occurred in the past, we have simplified Buffalo's history from an ocean of living to a history of a single drop of water. The picture is blurred and broken.
