Sunday, March 8, 2015
Blog #5
My individual part to this group project is working with Tamieka to come up with many different microaggression scenarios that the class can act out together. We all grouped up in twos and sectioned off doing different parts of our presentation, which we found a lot easier. Tamieka and I focused on doing about 15 scenarios that we will have the classroom portray by picking names out of a hat. We felt that this would've been a much better idea than a skit because the classroom can get involved and we can also have discussions on the way that each person portrayed their character to be and what they did that the audience liked and what they did that they didn't like. We really wanted the class to get involved in our presentation so we felt this was the perfect idea. Tamieka and I last class, worked on putting this scenarios together and I think we did a pretty good job. By allowing each person in the class to partake in these scenarios, I think it's going to have a good outcome because we will be able to see how each person would individually react to a situation that they may not like.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Blog #4
Why do we need to have these conversations about race? What can we do to shift the tides towards justice and change? How can we connect to make our projects matter in the world outside our classroom?
I feel that we should have these conversations about race because it is essential with the world today because there's many different diversities out there, and we should all be able to have an understanding of that, yes your race or ethnicity may be different than others, but we're all people and we need to come together. Without these conversations, I probably wouldn't really think about race or ethnicity in the way that this class brings it out of me. I realize that there's so much more to just the term race or just the term ethnicity. So many things can come from that which brings me to the next question about justice and change. Race and Ethnicity can be used against people, which in entail causes problems in the world today. I think what we can do to shift the tides towards justice and change is really just let people know what's going on, all these racial issues out there need to be taken serious. I think we can make these shifts by presenting our information in a way that would really get our audience and even outsiders to see that there's so much more than to just what a person is other than their race or ethnicity. If people are able to really see the problems that come from within those two words, maybe that can make a change because I personally believe that some people may not want too, but once they see another persons experience or hardships, it may trigger something in their brain to say, "You know what? This should not be occurring, there should be no reason why there is any injustice within all races and ethnicity". As a whole we need to come together and really put forth vital information in such a way that the audience will change the way they feel about what's going on. I know for my own self, I may not believe something until the facts are proven to me, (which can also include personal experiences) Just by hearing a person's story who's really been through a lot, it can really change a persons outlook and get them to understand what the issue really is at hand and what do we need to do to change that. I believe that this can definitely help. I think we can connect our projects to many websites, articles, youtube videos etc, basically anything that can possibly break the internet and get a ton of viewers. That can be a first step and than hopefully can bring forth a movement to get these ideas flowing in our audience's heads. If we present vital, and interesting information, it's only going to attract more and more audience and it's how you spread the word in which we as a group can change and make these issues matter to the world today.
I feel that we should have these conversations about race because it is essential with the world today because there's many different diversities out there, and we should all be able to have an understanding of that, yes your race or ethnicity may be different than others, but we're all people and we need to come together. Without these conversations, I probably wouldn't really think about race or ethnicity in the way that this class brings it out of me. I realize that there's so much more to just the term race or just the term ethnicity. So many things can come from that which brings me to the next question about justice and change. Race and Ethnicity can be used against people, which in entail causes problems in the world today. I think what we can do to shift the tides towards justice and change is really just let people know what's going on, all these racial issues out there need to be taken serious. I think we can make these shifts by presenting our information in a way that would really get our audience and even outsiders to see that there's so much more than to just what a person is other than their race or ethnicity. If people are able to really see the problems that come from within those two words, maybe that can make a change because I personally believe that some people may not want too, but once they see another persons experience or hardships, it may trigger something in their brain to say, "You know what? This should not be occurring, there should be no reason why there is any injustice within all races and ethnicity". As a whole we need to come together and really put forth vital information in such a way that the audience will change the way they feel about what's going on. I know for my own self, I may not believe something until the facts are proven to me, (which can also include personal experiences) Just by hearing a person's story who's really been through a lot, it can really change a persons outlook and get them to understand what the issue really is at hand and what do we need to do to change that. I believe that this can definitely help. I think we can connect our projects to many websites, articles, youtube videos etc, basically anything that can possibly break the internet and get a ton of viewers. That can be a first step and than hopefully can bring forth a movement to get these ideas flowing in our audience's heads. If we present vital, and interesting information, it's only going to attract more and more audience and it's how you spread the word in which we as a group can change and make these issues matter to the world today.
Monday, February 23, 2015
Blog #3
What will your part be in your group presentation?
In response to this question, I am in the Race and Identity group. We're not exactly sure yet exactly who's doing what and that is what we will be figuring out next week, but we're pretty much going to do everything as an entire group working together, instead of individual projects. We all agreed that we can do something much more effective and extensive if we do this together. Our planning for this project this week is gathering up all of our ideas on how we want to do our presentation and who's going to do what. When we meet tomorrow, we will all determine that. There were some people in the group who had specific "Microagression" situations happen to them, and we have to decide how we want to incorporate that into our presentation. It may be a discussion, or that can possibly be used within the skits that we plan on doing. For this presentation, I think we will all pretty much have the same part because we're focusing on the "How do you precede your self" and than go into "How do you precede others". Most likely to start as an introducton, were going to introduce the, "Finding your roots" and decide what formative questions we can use to deliberate a discussion within the classroom. We're all not still 100% clear on who's exactly doing what, but going from what we discussed last week, it seems as if everyone is going to have an even shared role in this group and we will all be participating in each aspect; even the skit. This week we will figure out exactly how our presentation to go, what finding roots episode we will look at, the questions forming from that, the skit, and any other essential information that we may come upon.
In response to this question, I am in the Race and Identity group. We're not exactly sure yet exactly who's doing what and that is what we will be figuring out next week, but we're pretty much going to do everything as an entire group working together, instead of individual projects. We all agreed that we can do something much more effective and extensive if we do this together. Our planning for this project this week is gathering up all of our ideas on how we want to do our presentation and who's going to do what. When we meet tomorrow, we will all determine that. There were some people in the group who had specific "Microagression" situations happen to them, and we have to decide how we want to incorporate that into our presentation. It may be a discussion, or that can possibly be used within the skits that we plan on doing. For this presentation, I think we will all pretty much have the same part because we're focusing on the "How do you precede your self" and than go into "How do you precede others". Most likely to start as an introducton, were going to introduce the, "Finding your roots" and decide what formative questions we can use to deliberate a discussion within the classroom. We're all not still 100% clear on who's exactly doing what, but going from what we discussed last week, it seems as if everyone is going to have an even shared role in this group and we will all be participating in each aspect; even the skit. This week we will figure out exactly how our presentation to go, what finding roots episode we will look at, the questions forming from that, the skit, and any other essential information that we may come upon.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Blog #2
For my project, I decided to choose the group, "Race and Identity". What I found important, was being able to focus on the judgement that comes with this. By judgement, I mean the way people think when they look at a person, or any form of racism that happens in the world today. I chose this idea because I feel that certain races/ethnicity get criticized much more than others, and I do not feel that this is fair at all. There is reasons that people feel the way that they feel and I think it's going to be essential to be able to explore that. For this project, I was thinking about possibly interviewing different people with different races/ethnicity. By doing this, I'll be able to get insight on some positive/negative things that they have experienced in their life because of "Judgement from others". By doing this, I'll be able to explore many different races and also see how they feel about others. I think what may be interesting is possibly being able to get an audio or a video where I would be able to make a documentary or just a film of some sort where we would all be able to visually see and hear the people speak about their different races and the struggles that they have to go through. This may be difficult because I do not have a camera, so that's why I'm still not 100% positive that's exactly what I'm going to do but I think for my focus, this would be awesome. If I'm able to the film instead of just the audio, I will make that atleast 20-30 minutes depending on how many people I interview and how much information I get. If worst comes to worst, I will try to use the video on my cell phone and somehow put it all together on the computer. What inspires me is just hearing all the problems on the news about Racism and all the incidents that are happening where people are being judged and misjudged and I've always thought this was unfair, so this class is allowing me to explore these feelings and be able to see how others feel about it also. If I am not able to get a camera or use my phone to do this documentary film, than I will most likely create a form of a website and add some visuals on there and the information that I get from my interviews from all the people in each race. I know the documentary would come out much more effective, but if I do not have the materials to do that, I will make sure that my website provides all the different races, the information that I had gotten from the people that I had interviewed (Possible audio or videos if I can) and I will also provide stories that have been on the news that has to due with judgement of ones race/ethnicity. I just really want to focus on the people whom I'm interviewing, but it's possbile that I can add in outside sources of issues going on around the world today and why this is pertains to Race and Identity.
Blog #1
What I would like to learn from this class is more about Race and Ethnicity. Since I'm highly interested in becoming a teacher for the ages from P-3, I know that knowing about these are very important since the classrooms will consist of many different races. I'm also interested in learning more about Identity. I feel that as being a part of a society, it's important to know who you are and where your family stems from. I know a small bit of my family tree, but I dont know everything, so I think that this class will help make it easier for me to understand my own personal race & ethnicity, and also many others. I'm also interested in the issues that come along with Race & Ethnicity, because JUDGEMENT is crazy in the world today. I believe that racism is still strong in many areas and there's many reasons why some people may feel like it. It might be interesting to explore this because it's a serious issue and it's something that needs to be understood. Even though I do not believe in racism at all, there's many reasons why people judge others and maybe that's something that we can explore and get into the deeper issue of why people do that. All of these ideas are great, and I know many of us are going to relate. So maybe we can get into groups and explore some of the issues that we all agree upon thoroughly, whether that's through a website, or some sort of presentation.
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