In The Service Of What?

After Reading the article written by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer i agreed 100%. I feel service learning is a project that can change the lifes of many. i feel the person particapating and the person recieveing both can gain alot from the experience. It is important that we all particpate because we can change the life of many less Fourunate people. Some Quotes i felt were important were....

1." Ask not what your counrty can do for you; ask what you can do for you country".

This is important because we should all do thing in life to help others and not expect anything in return we can help so many less fourntuate is we just do little things. The little things can make a huge difference.

2. "Educators and legislstors alike maintain that service learning can imporve the community....."

This is so true if we all particpate in at least one service learning project we can make a huge difference in out community. Every little bit helps and if we can change the life of one person thats a start to a big and better change.

3."Students would interact with those less fourtuante than themseleves and would experience the excitment and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom."

This is important i think that children need to do learning outside the classroom. It is important for them to get there hands on things and actually experience it for themselves. So much learning can be done outside the classroom. Its Teachers job to find things for the children to particapte in outside the classroom.

Unlearning the Myths That Blind Us

After reading the article written by Linda Christensen I was left speechless. I never came to realize how many negitive messages the media is portraying. Now when I watch any type of media, movie, or television show, i have a different outlook. I am more aware and I can pick out many of the negitive messages it sending to the minds of the people. It never dawned on me how young the media starts to manipulate the young minds. Some quotes that stood out to me in Christensen article were:

1. " Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by childrens media or advertisment. No one wants to admit that they have been "Handled" by the media."

This reminds me of when we discussed the topic of oblivious. I feel like we know the media is manipulating us, but its not downgradeing the white class, so we have the attitude of why should we care. It is sad to say but this is something that goes along with the white privilege. something we put in the backpack.

2. " The impact of racism begins early. Even n our preschool years".

This is so true because we dont realize what the young minds our viewing each and every day. Working in a preschool i see racism all the time there young minds our be minipulated by televison and there parents. We need to start teaching ans stressing equality and how everyone is equal no matter what they look like or where the cam from.