Talking Point #5 - Kahne & Westheimer

Argument: Kahne & Westheimer argue that SL projects, though sharing a common goal, should have subliminal learning letting students take away what they need and perhaps even choosing what they want to do as an SL, making them take more from the experience

1. " For example, one student worked in a center for babies whose mothers had high levels of crack cocaine in their blood streams during pregnancy. Another worked in a hospital, running errands for doctors and helping patients locate the sites for their appointments. A third student prepared and distributed survival kits for the homeless. By finding and engaging in community service activities, Mr.Johnson explained, students would interact with those less fortunate than themselves and would experience the excitement and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom."

I feel like all three of these are very good SL projects but I think i would appreciate the first as an SL project more.  in a class in HS, we did a project in parenting class with a doll that was programed to be like a real baby (even though it was not just like it at all and it only pissed me off) and before we were handed our 3 day babies, we were shown a doll that would be the same in comparison to the dolls we got except this baby was a crack baby. we got to hear the difference in cry's, in weight, in size, basically everything. that baby comes out of the womb yearning for crack. that baby is born addicted. nothing in the world except for crack and soothe that baby. i would 110% love to work with those babies. my heart aches for them  and i think for a young adult to see the cause and affects of something like that would  be great.

2. " Ms. Adams, a seventh-grade teacher at Lexington Middle School, took a different approach. Working together, Ms. Adams and her students identified issues of common concern and then voted to focus their energy on the issue of homelessness."

This woman's approach to work together as a team i guess works well. i feel like i like the path where the kids choose themselves. of course it works better for the older kids but maybe for the young ones a group would work out. i don't fully think that children will learn a variety of things with a common cause if they have to do the same thing. comparing and contrasting would be more beneficial i think.

3.  Some of the middle school parents object, saying that they were concerned for their childrens safety. In a written evaluation, the students said that they had imagined 'horrifying children running around on a dirty campus"

I dont quite understand why parents act like that sometimes. that just instills in our children how to be prejudice and in some cases racist. why would you do that and then tell them not to pick on other kids because they are different? its the same thing to me.

how frustrating. 

i guess this article was ok. its the blogging that irritates me. i feel like such a conformist when i blog. my sister blogs and its about stupid crap all the time. ive been against them for forever and to be forced to do them to get a good grade is crappy to me. my efforts in them are usually the bare minimum. o well.