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The least horrible group projects

The least horrible group projects

Wow look at me posting this blog late, I was sitting watching the latest Hunger Games with my family and realized that I had forgotten to post my reflection on the wonderful group presentations that I got to be a part of for the past few weeks. So here I am, frantically trying to recall and record all that I learned in a few sentences.

The group I was in dove into the topic of adolescent literacy, which brought up a bunch of things that I wasn’t even aware were affected by one another. For example, the things that we see in media or social media can completely help develop and shape a young adolescence’s personality or perspective of themselves. We focus heavily on appearance and the way that we present ourselves on online outlets. This begins to consume our thoughts and transform our actual actions. We see many adolescents trying to form an identity through shortcuts to friendship such as Twitter or Instagram. Here, a person can present themselves in the best possible light or feel that they are able to be whoever they want to be.

Overall, every group was a blast to interact with and learn about all of the cool things that they had invested in learning about. The hip hop group had some great ideas and showed examples of classes that used hip hop as a gateway to literacy and education. I even got to be a rapper in front of the class and drop some super sick beats! …well at least I thought I sounded pretty good. The next group was talking about video games, which I will admit, isn’t my thing at all. But I am still able to appreciate the interest from students and the idea that video games give you a chance to try again. As a future teacher, I would like to be able to implement some form of this, and not making failure such a big deal, rather a chance to learn and better oneself. The maker group was a funny and fun way to explore our more creative sides. I loved being given the opportunity to really do anything with the silly materials, and see all of the different outcomes.

This project taught me a lot. I was surprised how much my fellow classmates taught me in the group setting, rather than just being preached at by the teacher. I feel like I got some great tools and a new mindset on education and teaching styles.

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