Talking post 7

Gender and Education

While searchign Gender and Education, I didnt find too much information on it. there are a bunch of random sites and a lot on other countrys. However sex disctimination came up a lot. The discrimination mostly effects the women. One fact that I really was upset by didnt have to do with education, it was stated that for every dollar a man makes a woman only makes 75 cents.

The biggest topic came up around my search was the gender gap. The gender gap is defined as the difference between the way males and females are treated. There has also been many studies of the ways that boys and girls brains grow.

Talking Point #6

Tim Wise and Brown vs. Board of Education

I have been extremely busy this weekend and since the videos and website were not posted until Saturday I didn't have anytime to do them. However I had a chance to do so today. I really enjoyed the change up of things. I was getting really bored with the readings and this was a good break from that. I enjoyed taking a look at the website and getting a good feel for the Brown vs The Board of Education and more. I had gone through this before in some previous classes but for some reason it just never sticks in my mind. Looking at the website brought some things back that I have already learned. Wise said a lot of really great points that I had never really thought about before. There was a lot of proof and statistics that he had for some scenarios. I really enjoyed this assignment this week and can understand everything a little more.

talking point #5

In the Service Of What? The Politics of Service Learning

by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheime

This article is about the two different parts of Service Learning. It also talks a lot about how it is beneficial to both the student giving the service and the student receiving the service. Both participants gain many positives aspects to their learning expediences. Unlike many of the previous articles that I have read I almost completely agree with what this one is saying. I found some good quotes in the article that really helps to understand what Service Learning is.

1. "It is the combination of service and critical analysis, not either by itself, that seems most likely to promote interest in and insight into these complex social issues."

I agree that each part can not serve by itself. Like many other aspects of life most things don't work completely or perfectly without something else to hold it down. Both parts are beneficial and need each other to be proactive.

2. "Students tutor, coach softball, paint playgrounds, and read to the elderly because they are interested in people, or because they want to learn a little about poverty and racism before they head out into the waiting corporate world..."

I don't like how some people think of Service Learning as charity work. There is way more to it than just helping those who are less fortunate. There are learning opportunities for both the students who are receiving the service and those students who are actually taking part in the tutoring.

3. "Students would interact with those less fortunate than themselves and would experience the excitement and joy of learning while using they community as a classroom."

I agree completely that students need to learn in other places than the classroom. Having other experiences is what makes the students who they are individually and there is still a ton of learning to be don't. Finding things for the students to do and participate in outside the classroom is a key component of the roles of teachers.

Talking point #4

Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us

by Linda Christensen

1."Many of us grow up in neighborhoods where we have limited opportunities to interact with people different from out own families..."

I believe this is a very huge part of why we don't know any different that what we see. There are so many different types of people and we are so set on what we already know. The narrow view that many people have, is the only view people are willing to use.

2. "Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be achieved through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."

This is the way every fairy tale is played out. Cinderella is the most popular Princess story and personally my favorite. Even though this is how the story portrays happiness, I feel that once you get old enough you will realize its just a story and not real life.

3. "For some the lesson doesn't end in the classroom. Many who watched cartoons before we start our study say they can no longer enjoy them."

This is not the point of cartoons. Cartoons such as Looney Tunes are meant to be funny and entertaining. I personally don't see how analyzing cartoons like this is important. I understand that there are not enough diversities brought into the cartoons, but the fact that analyzing cartoons is ruining peoples take on them is not what should be happening.

This article was very hard to read. The text was very blurry and i couldn't focus because of that. What I got out of the article was that people were over analyzing cartoons and the meanings of them. Like I said before, I understand the problem that different diversities are not very well represented but I don't believe that we should have to over think the point of a cartoon. I liked that she provided her students the chance to make a difference by doing all the different types of projects.