Media- Photoshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM



We want to be like these girls in magazines, but in reality, it's all fake, due to photoshop. It is not even the real person in the magazines. It's all fake and make believe. We can't be looking at the media, and have them to try to influence us. I always wish that I was pretty enough to be photogenic, or to have a nice picture of myself. It didn't help me by comparing myself to other magazine artists. What they are in magazines, are not what they are in person. People just have to be happy for who they are as a person, and just have confidence. In reality, we are the natural ones, and the prettier ones. We have no need to become photoshopped.

Nas- I know I can

Nas- I know I can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nA3PhHXGCUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nA3PhHXGCU



I feel like this song, influences children to not give up on their education, and to not give up on their dreams on what they want to be!

Talking Points #10-Education is Politics- Shor

1) "School funding is another political dimension of education, because more money has always been invested in the education of upper-class children and elite collegians than has been spent on students from lower-income homes and in community colleges. Moreover, testing policies are political choices, whether to use student-centered, multi-cultural, and portfolio assessments, or to use teacher-centered tests or standardized exams in which women and minorities have traditionally scored lower than men and whites." 


      I do not think it is fair that people would rather give more money on the upper class instead of the lower class. The lower class needs more money than the upper class. How do people want lower class schools to learn the same as upper class schools, if lower class schools do not have the material they need to teach. We should be more considerate to the the lower class because they need more help financially than the upper class. That is just not fair.


2) "People begin life as motivated learners, not as passive beings. Children naturally join the world around them, and by using play to internalize the meaning of words and experience."


    I agree 100% with this quote. Children need to experience and see what is out there for them. They need to learn for themselves without anyone telling them. The more experience they have with the world they have around them, the easier they will get things and the knowledge. Children are not dumb, the are very intelligent and they learn really fast. The key word is being involved and participating. When someone participates, it actually means that they get what what they are doing. 


3)  "If the students task is to memorize rules and existing knowledge, without questioning the subject matter or the learning process, their potential for critical thought and action will be restricted."


               When a student learns a material, it is not all about memorizing. It is about understanding and practicing the material. A student is not going to learn something when they memorize . When students practice lessons, they are also getting a hands on environments. Meaning, it is not all about learning from a book. It is learning from a book and putting into reality. 

Final Days at West Broadway

   Tutoring at West Broadway for the past three months has been such an experience. It made me realize that it is not going to be easy on becoming a teacher. It is all about having patience, and believing that you can make it and do it. I enjoyed working with my six students. I liked getting to know them, and I enjoyed watching them improve throughout these three months. We are at different times and at different generations. My elementary school years were completely different from what they are today. This also has to do with where you live, your community and environment. I never realized that there is a big population   of hispanics. It is amazing to see how generations are changing, and they are going to continue to change, up to and including we become teachers.
    I personally would not be able to do elementary education. As much as I love children, I would not be able to control them. At least with high school students, they know how to behave and know when to stop. With elementary, I have to teach them all those steps. It was although a good experience, because there was a point on where I wanted to do elementary education, but was not positive. I enjoyed working with the little kids, because they always  put a smile on my face. It was an excellent experience, and I hope that I will get a chance to do the same thing, but with high school students.

Nas- I know I can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nA3PhHXGCUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nA3PhHXGCU



I feel like this song, influences children to not give up on their education, and to not give up on their dreams on what they want to be!

Media- Photoshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM



We want to be like these girls in magazines, but in reality, it's all fake, due to photoshop. It is not even the real person in the magazines. It's all fake and make believe. We can't be looking at the media, and have them to try to influence us. I always wish that I was pretty enough to be photogenic, or to have a nice picture of myself. It didn't help me by comparing myself to other magazine artists. What they are in magazines, are not what they are in person. People just have to be happy for who they are as a person, and just have confidence. In reality, we are the natural ones, and the prettier ones. We have no need to become photoshopped.

Talking Points #9 Citizenship in school- Christopher Kliewer

1)"Education is considered a dual process of group and individual transformation through which children 1) establish together a unique  community in thoughtfully planned activities, projects, experiences problems 2) support one another's membership in that community."

  This quotes makes me think of the movie that we are watching in class which is Freedom Writers. The children all become close to one another, and start getting involved in the community. They planned activities and got the lady who hid Anne Frank to go their school. Everyone in that class had problems, whether it had to do in being in gangs and fighting. The teacher made them get that idea out of the students head, and introduced them to the Holocaust, to see what other people went through. The guest speakers really touched the students, and changed them into more respectable people.

2) Community requires a willingness to see people as they are different perhaps in their minds and in their bodies, but not different in their splits or in their willingness and ability to contribute to the mosaic of society."

Everybody is different, and that's why the community wants to see them for who they are and not for anything else. They want people to accept them in the community for what that individual person is. They do not want to be judged, they just want to fit in. It's good for people to be different, and for people having their own type of personality.