My first thoughts about my driving question revolved around a training I had the privilege to participate in over the summer about culturally responsive with our students. In this training it talked about how even if we don't think we have biases we do and much worse we act according to them. This has had a profound effect in my teaching. I have reevaluated almost every action I have made since. So my initial question was based around this.
Since I have started this course I have read a lot and discussed and even heard a lot of things that I have really liked. I work in Vallejo with some of the city's most economically impoverished children. I wouldn't change it for anything. I love those kids. I don't want to take away from them and I want to give them every opportunity to achieve their educational/life goals. I know that there has been discussion already about the overuse of technology in a classroom but, I see that to help prepare my students for the future they need to have these skills that only can be given through the use of computers. Even it is something as simple as using edutyping to learn how to type. So all this leads to my driving question. I really liked and looked into more of the concept of a flipped classroom and how to use this model of letting the students take control of what they are learning and coming back and discussing it or working with the lessons and expanding on them in the classroom. How to bring the flipped classroom model to the economically/technological impoverished children while not diminishing their culture?
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November 2016
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