In-Class Blogging

I really don't like anything about my hometown, but one social change I would make is to eradicate racism. One year when I was in high school, Miss Pennsylvania came to my school to sing and talk to us in the high school auditorium. She was African American and all the the redneck racist people acted really rudely toward her. It was so bad that the teachers in my school announced that they were never going to invite another black guest to the school. One reason why so many people in my rural, Western Pennsylvanian hometown are racist is probably because there are only a handful of black people in the town, therefore many people aren't familiar or knowledgeable about black people, so they fear them or pass inaccurate judgments. One thing I would do to tip an anti-racist epidemic would not be to stop inviting black guests into the town, but instead invite more of them so that people will understand them better and become more familiar with them.
I am an education major so I thought the chapter on Sesame Street and Blues Clues was most influential. I think that not enough money is spent on education in this country and that our education system is seriously lacking. An uneducated society is, of course, a bad thing. In addition, I think that many parents do not pay as much attention to their children's education as they should. It is good to have a television show that can effectively teach children, especially if they are not getting an education from any other source.
As mentioned before, I hope to one day teach children. I think the Stickiness Factor is one thing I will consider when teaching. The whole point of teaching is so that students understand and remember information. If I make my lessons sticky, then my students will be more likely to remember them. As demonstrated in the Columbia Records advertising, simply getting the customers physically and actively involved in something makes a message sticky. Therefore, when writing lesson plans, I will come up with ways to get my students actively and physically involved in the lessons so that they remember them.