Part1:
survey done
Part2:
while i was taking this survey i needed a little bit of outside help with some questions since i knew i would not be 100% truthful so if i agree with another opinion about myself i would try and rationalize the answer. Since outside opinion affects everything we decide and do in this world it seem no harm to get some help to maybe new ideals that i have never thought about.
Taking the survey didn't make me feel self conscious about myself since there is nothing really to hide that know of. I felt this was a great was to see how i compare to other students in the grade, and if i would fall into the most popular response in number f people whom took the survey. i felt like some questions sounded like they repeated over and over again and my answer didn't change even though i might of contradicted myself now that i think about it.
I didn't talk about the survey with my family since i thought that there was no need to gather their opinion since they would be about the same with my friends, on what they think about each topic.
By thinking about my answers it didn't change my daily life at all since everything seemed normal even though i thought about my relationship with others and how close i am with them in this world. I didn't even think about the fact that all this thinking can be a lie and the truth is something i do not want to remember and experience.
There is so much to think about but no matter how much i want to change about how i feel i just can since it is apart of my normal life and it is the route i decided to take regarding my relationships with others and how i feel about them.
Part3:
An interesting thought by looking at the survey is that is they questions is asking about something good than the yes is a majority most of them time but if it is dealing with something else it varies, this shows some pattern to how we think about our lives and what truths and lies are hidden in those surveys results.
I am most surprised of how good our lives are but the sample size was only 51 comparing to the rest of the world or new york city. this sample size i feel is still insignificant to the real results or some people were lying, since it is highly unlikely that a majority of the people have good lives. Maybe with was just our perspective of what we consider good so the judgment was varied to different standards since different humans have different standard for different things.
Part4:
By comparing my thoughts to the data we collected and analysis, i feel like it is hard to make an assumptions to how our lives are like with relations to others and with ourselves. This is shown that our initial thoughts were somewhat off from what we see with how people lives are with their family and friends and to themselves. This experience shows how weird humans are thinking one thing and answering another. It also shows the complexity of how things are related in this world since everything has a certain level of significance in this world.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
HomeWork: 52
in this society we have many different relationships with other people and when ever we look at friends and family usally many different people act differently alternating between the two sides and one will always ask is which is my real side, and which wsa just a creation. Wells i would say that all your relationships are a creations of a reactions to the certian social group.
There are so many different aspects in life that we do not take into account, since there is millions of ways that thing are connected, and so many thing that we all share in common.
On topic i really notice if the topic of gossip, since gossip some thing people call, their way to attack other people, or to make one self feel better. Since gossip is something that all humans do in some way or another to make others feel bad. When people are complaining about some thing or saying some thing negative about some thing or someone else, is a form of hate to make one feel more supuior. this is something most don't notice, since it is part of todays human nature to feel better than the rest.
This unit is connected with the human emotions which is a very complicated thing to define in this world. emotions are apart of our lives and pretty much run them from the sidelines and affecting the way we interact with others. if we didn't have emotion in this world than the world would be dull and more organized since emotions dive a human or animal in a way that the rational mind cannot function and think clearly. all out actions are kind of similar if you put different people into the same situation, they would all react and think almost the same way, even though they are thinking they are thinking rationally they will never know if they are run by rational or these little emotions.
Friends is another question in this world since what do you define as a friend, since there are borders everywhere that restrict one and one might never really know what a true friend it they can only be since the mind can play tricks against one self while each person will have to battle each other over who is on top and which social group they fall into. Each social group is like their own different family but even family is not perfect, each family can have different people they shut out of their lives even though they are related. Most people would think that a friend is defined by oneself but i feel there is a deeper meaning to what we feel as a friend. It is something that one cannot understand fully but instead follow it blindly thinking one is in control. We humans don't have any control over our lives, since we can't pick our parents, or our friends and in this world the definition of friends and family mike and get lost along the way.
Thinking about how other people interact with each other in confusing since the more i think about it the more things contradict each other and that in this world i do not know if these ideals are correct but i do not know if these ideas are connect with something and they ill someway help me find a deeper knowledge on how we interact with others.
There are so many different aspects in life that we do not take into account, since there is millions of ways that thing are connected, and so many thing that we all share in common.
On topic i really notice if the topic of gossip, since gossip some thing people call, their way to attack other people, or to make one self feel better. Since gossip is something that all humans do in some way or another to make others feel bad. When people are complaining about some thing or saying some thing negative about some thing or someone else, is a form of hate to make one feel more supuior. this is something most don't notice, since it is part of todays human nature to feel better than the rest.
This unit is connected with the human emotions which is a very complicated thing to define in this world. emotions are apart of our lives and pretty much run them from the sidelines and affecting the way we interact with others. if we didn't have emotion in this world than the world would be dull and more organized since emotions dive a human or animal in a way that the rational mind cannot function and think clearly. all out actions are kind of similar if you put different people into the same situation, they would all react and think almost the same way, even though they are thinking they are thinking rationally they will never know if they are run by rational or these little emotions.
Friends is another question in this world since what do you define as a friend, since there are borders everywhere that restrict one and one might never really know what a true friend it they can only be since the mind can play tricks against one self while each person will have to battle each other over who is on top and which social group they fall into. Each social group is like their own different family but even family is not perfect, each family can have different people they shut out of their lives even though they are related. Most people would think that a friend is defined by oneself but i feel there is a deeper meaning to what we feel as a friend. It is something that one cannot understand fully but instead follow it blindly thinking one is in control. We humans don't have any control over our lives, since we can't pick our parents, or our friends and in this world the definition of friends and family mike and get lost along the way.
Thinking about how other people interact with each other in confusing since the more i think about it the more things contradict each other and that in this world i do not know if these ideals are correct but i do not know if these ideas are connect with something and they ill someway help me find a deeper knowledge on how we interact with others.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
HomeWork 51:
3. HW - 51 - A 3-5 page paper, drawing on your independent research, interviews, class materials, etc on a particular topic of interest to you related to schooling. This will be due Tuesday, April 27 at 9pm.
If you don't yet have a topic please consider the following - linked to what we've studied this unit:
1. School as salvation - what can schools realistically do to address the systematic problems of inequality, anti-intellectualism, and meaninglessness in our society? (Savior Teacher Films, Obama speech, Sizer, Freire, Hirsch, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)
2. School as domination - How do schools train us to be sheep, to be dull, to be dumb, to be absurd? Is it possible/preferable to escape, to transform, or to understand the institution? (Dead Poets Society, Freire, Sizer, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)
(incomplete)
If you don't yet have a topic please consider the following - linked to what we've studied this unit:
1. School as salvation - what can schools realistically do to address the systematic problems of inequality, anti-intellectualism, and meaninglessness in our society? (Savior Teacher Films, Obama speech, Sizer, Freire, Hirsch, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)
2. School as domination - How do schools train us to be sheep, to be dull, to be dumb, to be absurd? Is it possible/preferable to escape, to transform, or to understand the institution? (Dead Poets Society, Freire, Sizer, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)
(incomplete)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hw: 49 (edited)
1. HW - 49 - A 4-6 paragraph analysis of your section's class savior/teacher film. This will be due Friday, April 23 at 9pm. Please address:
a. your personal contribution
b. your analysis of the message and tone of your section's film
c. contrast the film with the savior/teacher films we watched clips of
d. theorize (explore thoughtfully and powerfully) the connection between salvation and education/schooling in our culture
If your section didn't successfully complete a film you could choose to use this film to compare/contrast.
Our class didn't finish our movie, but in our movie we made it on the fake glory teachers get for changing a student who chooses to change him/herself. in the movie i contributed as a extra in the class and was assigned as the editor, but since we never finished filming we didn't do that part.
Sections 1's movie was a quick revelation on a happy tone to a serious tone after a day. in the beginning it show an empty classroom with the teacher stressed sitting at his desk drinking his pain away. After he feel asleep it was unclear either he was having a dream or remembering what happened that day. Since it blurred out as a time skip, either forward or backwards. the first day when the teacher was active trying to "teach" them, that didn't work since the students didn't care about it. Even though the students said that they didn't care about learning what was in the school curriculum but when it is about anything else, school is all they know. Even though they got a revelation at the end they still went back to be noisy kids and the students didn't care what was being taught to them, either it was based on sizer point of view or herize point of view.
This film is not like the super teacher films in many ways, since the teacher tried to teach them "a school topic" and they didn't listen and when he tried to teach them the said reality of life they didn't care. When it connect to their real world and can help the student's current lives don't matter, since they wont care. But the short film did follow the guide line of the teacher trying the school way, then get a break down on what to do next since they "seem" to have lost and then try to connect to the students on their terms and point of view.
Neither the super teach films or the short story films really show the reality of this cultures institutions. Each were to focused on their own theme and was not looking at the different possibilities that the film can have. the reality of the school culture is something that cannot be fully realized and changed in this world no matter how much it seems wrong. Teachers in reality would not give up as easily as the teacher in the short story and would not try and change their teachings like in freedom writers, but in the french movie "the class" showed the closest reality of what teachers and students faced, and how in school there cannot be a solution all the time, and that this world institutions are just poorly structured with the teachers and students looking different ways, and not caring for the other sides needs.
a. your personal contribution
b. your analysis of the message and tone of your section's film
c. contrast the film with the savior/teacher films we watched clips of
d. theorize (explore thoughtfully and powerfully) the connection between salvation and education/schooling in our culture
If your section didn't successfully complete a film you could choose to use this film to compare/contrast.
Our class didn't finish our movie, but in our movie we made it on the fake glory teachers get for changing a student who chooses to change him/herself. in the movie i contributed as a extra in the class and was assigned as the editor, but since we never finished filming we didn't do that part.
Sections 1's movie was a quick revelation on a happy tone to a serious tone after a day. in the beginning it show an empty classroom with the teacher stressed sitting at his desk drinking his pain away. After he feel asleep it was unclear either he was having a dream or remembering what happened that day. Since it blurred out as a time skip, either forward or backwards. the first day when the teacher was active trying to "teach" them, that didn't work since the students didn't care about it. Even though the students said that they didn't care about learning what was in the school curriculum but when it is about anything else, school is all they know. Even though they got a revelation at the end they still went back to be noisy kids and the students didn't care what was being taught to them, either it was based on sizer point of view or herize point of view.
This film is not like the super teacher films in many ways, since the teacher tried to teach them "a school topic" and they didn't listen and when he tried to teach them the said reality of life they didn't care. When it connect to their real world and can help the student's current lives don't matter, since they wont care. But the short film did follow the guide line of the teacher trying the school way, then get a break down on what to do next since they "seem" to have lost and then try to connect to the students on their terms and point of view.
Neither the super teach films or the short story films really show the reality of this cultures institutions. Each were to focused on their own theme and was not looking at the different possibilities that the film can have. the reality of the school culture is something that cannot be fully realized and changed in this world no matter how much it seems wrong. Teachers in reality would not give up as easily as the teacher in the short story and would not try and change their teachings like in freedom writers, but in the french movie "the class" showed the closest reality of what teachers and students faced, and how in school there cannot be a solution all the time, and that this world institutions are just poorly structured with the teachers and students looking different ways, and not caring for the other sides needs.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
HomeWork 48: Treatment
Opening:
Looking at the blue sky, all bright and wonderful, with pidgens flying across, moving to the front of the sidwalk where kids are going to school.
Scene1:
The sidewalks are emty and a kid steps into the picture with his school bag on one sholder. He stares up at the sign of the school and walked into the school building. The scurity officer giver him a star from the front desk, and he strolls by.
Scene2:
The kid strolls into the main office and he talkes to the desk person telling he/she they are here to see the principle. The lady is not paying attention to the kid, but has the impression that the kid is bad.
Scene3:
As the kid walks into the principle he is asked to take a seeat; and reviews the standards and motto of the school and what he expects from him. Of cource the kid agrees and collects his paper work, as the principle is staring at the kid looking confused. As the principle dissmis the student and he walks out the door quietly.
Scene4:
The student walks through a emty hallway with a couple papers on the ground, as he opens the door a rush of noise filled his mind from the classroom. students sitting tables (not rows) but like groups as the teachers welcomes the student and asked him to introduce himself to the class. A couple of snickers and wispers but the rooms is mostly quite as the kid takes his seat.
Looking at the blue sky, all bright and wonderful, with pidgens flying across, moving to the front of the sidwalk where kids are going to school.
Scene1:
The sidewalks are emty and a kid steps into the picture with his school bag on one sholder. He stares up at the sign of the school and walked into the school building. The scurity officer giver him a star from the front desk, and he strolls by.
Scene2:
The kid strolls into the main office and he talkes to the desk person telling he/she they are here to see the principle. The lady is not paying attention to the kid, but has the impression that the kid is bad.
Scene3:
As the kid walks into the principle he is asked to take a seeat; and reviews the standards and motto of the school and what he expects from him. Of cource the kid agrees and collects his paper work, as the principle is staring at the kid looking confused. As the principle dissmis the student and he walks out the door quietly.
Scene4:
The student walks through a emty hallway with a couple papers on the ground, as he opens the door a rush of noise filled his mind from the classroom. students sitting tables (not rows) but like groups as the teachers welcomes the student and asked him to introduce himself to the class. A couple of snickers and wispers but the rooms is mostly quite as the kid takes his seat.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
HomeWork 47-Class film preparation 1
Please compose a colorful list of 5-10 ideas that should be considered for inclusion in your section's version of the "Savior/Teacher" film.
You could address plot, character, theme, tone, cinematography, dialogue, key images, tropes, references, or our collective process of making the film. Indicate which of the ideas are most important to you by putting an asterix by the one or few which you think are most compelling.
1. The students should be zombie like, shown in modern time (maybe black and white background) showing how all the students are oblivious to the world around them while they are "sucking" on the brains of their teachers to "feed" themselves.
2. Show more than one teacher or more than one class for a teacher, since the same students may not be interesting since it has been don't many times. it should show how a new york school really is and not all miracles can happen since it needs to point out the reality of schools and not just the made up fantasy that only happens in a few occasions.
3. We can show in a principles point of view walking into class rooms, since they always make the administrative seem bad and maybe we can shed some light and make the administrative look good.
4. a good 10% of the movie at least has to be scenery shots
5. some really overly dramatic scene to capture the audience attention
6. a choice can be a student teaching the teacher more about reality by switching roles (probably a new kid (transfer))
7. something unusual...
8. "film" of us filming the movie?
9. bad teacher?
You could address plot, character, theme, tone, cinematography, dialogue, key images, tropes, references, or our collective process of making the film. Indicate which of the ideas are most important to you by putting an asterix by the one or few which you think are most compelling.
1. The students should be zombie like, shown in modern time (maybe black and white background) showing how all the students are oblivious to the world around them while they are "sucking" on the brains of their teachers to "feed" themselves.
2. Show more than one teacher or more than one class for a teacher, since the same students may not be interesting since it has been don't many times. it should show how a new york school really is and not all miracles can happen since it needs to point out the reality of schools and not just the made up fantasy that only happens in a few occasions.
3. We can show in a principles point of view walking into class rooms, since they always make the administrative seem bad and maybe we can shed some light and make the administrative look good.
4. a good 10% of the movie at least has to be scenery shots
5. some really overly dramatic scene to capture the audience attention
6. a choice can be a student teaching the teacher more about reality by switching roles (probably a new kid (transfer))
7. something unusual...
8. "film" of us filming the movie?
9. bad teacher?
Monday, March 8, 2010
HomeWork 42- More thinking
Question: How does extracurricular activities affect how a student learns in school. The definition of an extracurricular activity is something done outside of a normal school day. I would say than no matter what kind of "Extracurricular activities" a student participates in, it would have no affect on how a student learns.
Since school is only about 8 hours a day in my life, what do i do in that other 16hours than our affect my learning, would it be helpful or hurtful to students if they spent all the time outside of school having leisure time? What would going on facebook, or other social networks do to student and how a person learns in school, the next day.
Through out my life i have tried many different of activities outside of school, from sleeping to sports to academic. But i have never as a person knew why schools offer these opportunities and how they would affect me as a student. I have always know parents and teachers telling students how important school is, but do these things really help us or hinder us and, i as a student want to find out.
reminder to use this source to find more information on this topic. http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Since school is only about 8 hours a day in my life, what do i do in that other 16hours than our affect my learning, would it be helpful or hurtful to students if they spent all the time outside of school having leisure time? What would going on facebook, or other social networks do to student and how a person learns in school, the next day.
Through out my life i have tried many different of activities outside of school, from sleeping to sports to academic. But i have never as a person knew why schools offer these opportunities and how they would affect me as a student. I have always know parents and teachers telling students how important school is, but do these things really help us or hinder us and, i as a student want to find out.
reminder to use this source to find more information on this topic. http://www.eric.ed.gov/
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