Watch Young Gunz the video being discussed in chapter 2 (warning; contains adult language).
1. What are your concerns about teaching young people to make videos about social problems?
Using the Young Gunz video as an example, I would be concerned about my students' safety. Students need to be aware of where they are, the conditions around them and conscientious of how people may interpret their questions. Additionally, I wouldn't want to inadvertently promote a social problem...for example, "you should have a gun. Everyone else has a gun..."
Then read Chapter 2 in the course text and answer the following questions:
1. Name a social issue specific to the Appalachian region that you think young people in your community would or should address.
In our area, a big social issue being dealt with right now is bullying. Over the summer, a group of parents in the area raised over $13,000 to bring the Rachel's Challenge program into the schools. As part of my Cadette Girl Scouts journey, they are talking about doing a PSA concerning bullying.
2. Find an online resource you might use to scaffold community-based video production process.
3. Choose on of the following perspectives; teacher, parent, or community member. From your chosen perspective, would you be supportive of a school program that engaged students in community-based video production? Why or Why not?
In any of those perspectives, I would support a school program that engages students in community-based video production. I think it is important for students to take an active role in their communities. Such activities could promote awareness of certain social issues. Change often comes when people are made aware of the problem.
QUOTE:
"Educators who choose to teach media must carry in their minds the images of potential oppotunities, conditions, and levels of learning. The teacher must be ever vigilant, on the lookout for these teachable moments, creating, capturing, and exploiting them whenever possible." (p. 54)
Reflection:
This quote should apply to every teacher, not just those teaching media. It made me think of my sister. She is a Reading Specialist at a middle school. She is always coming up with ways to relate things to learning. Constantly capturing, creating and exploiting teachable moments, I am continually amazed at how quickly she works up solutions to problems and makes it look like "we meant to do that". She often says that we have a "BA in BS". We inherited it from my father.
I found this article My Generation: Teachable moments from quotations. Although it is a short article, I thought it was interesting how they linked quotes to teachable moments.
In any of those perspectives, I would support a school program that engages students in community-based video production. I think it is important for students to take an active role in their communities. Such activities could promote awareness of certain social issues. Change often comes when people are made aware of the problem.
QUOTE:
"Educators who choose to teach media must carry in their minds the images of potential oppotunities, conditions, and levels of learning. The teacher must be ever vigilant, on the lookout for these teachable moments, creating, capturing, and exploiting them whenever possible." (p. 54)
Reflection:
This quote should apply to every teacher, not just those teaching media. It made me think of my sister. She is a Reading Specialist at a middle school. She is always coming up with ways to relate things to learning. Constantly capturing, creating and exploiting teachable moments, I am continually amazed at how quickly she works up solutions to problems and makes it look like "we meant to do that". She often says that we have a "BA in BS". We inherited it from my father.
I found this article My Generation: Teachable moments from quotations. Although it is a short article, I thought it was interesting how they linked quotes to teachable moments.
I thought the Young Gunz video leaned to anti-gun but as the author noted the video fell short of offering a solution or complete critique of the problem. That is the challenging part of documentary video production. How do you make an organic learning process meaningful for school-based learning?
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