Embracing Individuality

The Reading In a Media, Technology and Education (EDEC 262) course, I read Gargia's (2002) Swimming against the mainstream: Examining cultural assumptions in the classroom. Gargia explored the struggles of being ethnic and its implications on educational practices. She stated that we as educators, instead of placing students into categories based on their races, “must focus on…

Collaborative Video Production

The Reading The study Video Production and Youth-Educator Collaboration by Michelle Stack explores the relationships between high school students and university professors and the impact when they are asked to collaborate on a public service announcement video clip production. One idea that really resonated with me in the study was that video production projects promote democratic pedagogy because "video…