Welcome to EDU 2650 - Sample Blog
Once again, welcome to EDU 2650! We are now in week two of our course and you will need to start blogging next week. Blog #1 is due by September 24th. This is an example of a blog and what I am expecting from you based on the detailed instructions I shared on the Blogging page and in the Blogging Edpuzzle, which you should have completed by now. Blogging is the basis of this course and therefore you need to include the documentary and at least two of the articles from the module in your weekly blogs. In addition, you must locate one additional recent article every week about the topic and include it in your blog. For the most part, the readings, viewings, and careful writing of the blog is the work for each week. Over the course of the semester, you must reply to at least 10 classmates' blogs plus complete the other "projects" as outlined on the syllabus with links on our course home page.
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| Image from Buncee Presentation by M. Craig |
So for this week, you are not yet blogging but instead, this week in our fully online course we are discussing race, anti-racism, and social justice. There are so many titles for this very important topic - you can probably think of even more titles for this module based on all the media coverage of this topic over the past months. As educators, it is so important that we are aware of our biases, privilege, and the circumstances of the lives of ALL our students. Education Week reported recently that there are efforts to ban the teaching of race, specifically critical race theory, to a third of America's children, more than 17.7 million children! (Pendharkar, 2022). Notice how I cited that article in parenthesis in APA format. You need to do that in every blog too!
It was SO difficult to narrow this module's readings since there are just so many interesting and important topics to cover which is why I am asking you to read the module's contents and go through the amazing resource list and choose one of your favorites after browsing them all and then I ask that you share it with the class on the Padlet. After reviewing the Padlet posts, comment on one and upvote it.
Below is a music video by Nwigwe (2020) to start our module that is so emotional. I discovered it from Christopher Emdin's Twitter post. Christopher Emdin is a faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University and wrote the book, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y'All Too (Emdin, 2016) and Ratchedemic: Reimagining Academic Success (Emdin, 2021).
Dr. Craig,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through this blog post, I am excited to start my own blogs and look deeper into the critical issues in education this semester. When doing this week’s module assignment, I also found it difficult to choose one resource. In the end, I chose one that explained how to talk to children about social justice issues, racism, violence, and other heavy topics today. I felt that it was a helpful resource because talking to young children about these topics can be tough, especially in a classroom. Additionally, I thought the video you shared was very moving. I loved how the singer seemed to truly feel the lyrics he was saying. It is so important that children, and people in general, feel safe in their own skin. It truly emphasized the importance of making sure each one of my students knows they will be safe in my classroom, and that each one of them deserves a fair education, no matter the color of their skin. I look forward to seeing the resources you share with us this semester!