“How might education mediate difference and dominance?” - Youtube Link
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:01 am
Another assignment, this one is freaking me out a bit as its a You Tube presentation! 
I have been on You Tube and searched the question of the assignment (given below) and looked at previous students assignments but everything I have thought of seems to have been done and I don't want to come across as copying someone elses work so I need to use a topic that has occured recently to overcome the issue of seeming like ive copied someone elses ideas (you can go on You Tube if you want to see what previous ppl have come up with)
Anyway I need ideas for a topic to use - this is what it is
Prepare and mount a presentation on YouTube that addresses the question:
“How might education mediate difference and dominance?”
This assignment involves taking a seemingly everyday event and extracting transformative teaching possibilities from it.
Students are required to select an event and use this as the basis for the development of a teaching
episode.
Assignment sections
Part 1: The event or issue (approximately 2-3 minutes duration)
IIn this section of the presentation, you should clearly and fully describe an issue or event you have selected as the basis for this assignment. You should also explain how you see the issue or event touching on notions of difference in the social context by drawing on the relevant course materials, and how you see the the event connecting to national or community identity. You should not assume any specific prior knowledge of the event on the part of the viewer. Connection to, and use of the relevant course materials (that is, lecture materials, readings and other resources) must be utilised.
Part 2: The event as curriculum (approximately 5-8 minutes duration)
This part of the presentation asks you to present some ideas as to how you might use the event as curriculum - that is, as the content of an educative experience for students. Essentially you are asked to think about how you might address issues or events in the community from the perspective of collective and individual identity, difference and diversity presented in the course.
Some questions to prompt your thinking about this are:
• What ideas do you have for how you might “teach” this topic?
• What would you hope to draw out of the event that might assist learners
deepen their understanding of Difference and community identities?
• What potential does the event hold for critical engagement with some of the
implications of various identity locations and senses of Self?
• How might the event allow you to work as a transformative educator, in this case working to overcome disadvantage and marginalisation of some
groups within your class and the community?
• How might the event allow you to work to reduce discrimination in the
community?
We are not looking for formal lesson or unit plans - we acknowledge that most students taking this course are yet to be exposed to this aspect of teacher preparation. We are, however, looking for you to generate some ideas of how to use this type of material to generate positive understandings of difference and diversity
This part of the clip could take the form of:
• Ascripteddiscussion
• A roundtable session ;
• A simulated teaching episode, or..........the possibilities here are endless and entirely up to you. Just be sure that whichever method of presentation you use, that clear
• connection to the requirements of this task are met.
I have been on You Tube and searched the question of the assignment (given below) and looked at previous students assignments but everything I have thought of seems to have been done and I don't want to come across as copying someone elses work so I need to use a topic that has occured recently to overcome the issue of seeming like ive copied someone elses ideas (you can go on You Tube if you want to see what previous ppl have come up with)
Anyway I need ideas for a topic to use - this is what it is
Prepare and mount a presentation on YouTube that addresses the question:
“How might education mediate difference and dominance?”
This assignment involves taking a seemingly everyday event and extracting transformative teaching possibilities from it.
Students are required to select an event and use this as the basis for the development of a teaching
episode.
Assignment sections
Part 1: The event or issue (approximately 2-3 minutes duration)
IIn this section of the presentation, you should clearly and fully describe an issue or event you have selected as the basis for this assignment. You should also explain how you see the issue or event touching on notions of difference in the social context by drawing on the relevant course materials, and how you see the the event connecting to national or community identity. You should not assume any specific prior knowledge of the event on the part of the viewer. Connection to, and use of the relevant course materials (that is, lecture materials, readings and other resources) must be utilised.
Part 2: The event as curriculum (approximately 5-8 minutes duration)
This part of the presentation asks you to present some ideas as to how you might use the event as curriculum - that is, as the content of an educative experience for students. Essentially you are asked to think about how you might address issues or events in the community from the perspective of collective and individual identity, difference and diversity presented in the course.
Some questions to prompt your thinking about this are:
• What ideas do you have for how you might “teach” this topic?
• What would you hope to draw out of the event that might assist learners
deepen their understanding of Difference and community identities?
• What potential does the event hold for critical engagement with some of the
implications of various identity locations and senses of Self?
• How might the event allow you to work as a transformative educator, in this case working to overcome disadvantage and marginalisation of some
groups within your class and the community?
• How might the event allow you to work to reduce discrimination in the
community?
We are not looking for formal lesson or unit plans - we acknowledge that most students taking this course are yet to be exposed to this aspect of teacher preparation. We are, however, looking for you to generate some ideas of how to use this type of material to generate positive understandings of difference and diversity
This part of the clip could take the form of:
• Ascripteddiscussion
• A roundtable session ;
• A simulated teaching episode, or..........the possibilities here are endless and entirely up to you. Just be sure that whichever method of presentation you use, that clear
• connection to the requirements of this task are met.
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