Literacy with an Attitude

 Overview: Throughout this text, I have gotten this sense of routine and how students these days are being taught in similar ways their parents or educators have been taught. It's almost like this sense of routine that just keeps on passing down. We have grown to follow our parents lead and look up to them in just about everything they do. What we don't seem to realize is there are kids out there that are being taught the wrong way by their parents and educators. Children are normally very creative, very active, and always themselves at a point in their life. With the educating system that occurs they are loosing this special knowledge point in their lives. 

Reflection/Connections: 

Like we have talked about in class, we mentioned the fact that students have this one way to learn and it's the way they are being taught. They have no other outlook in their lives. If this method they are learning is not successful or helpful to them it is doing absolutely nothing in their favor. Finn mentions "John Carter," one of his professors when he was young. Now we learned that John Carter was a very smart man and always stuck to the curriculum but John rarely ever created relationships with his students. His students always thought to themselves like Finn, "how would this work in my classroom?" which meant that anything to aesthetic was out. They never really thought that anything John Carter said would help them in their classrooms. That was because of the way they were taught individually, they have always had one method of teaching and John Carters method wasn't apart of it. 

Students these days don't need a wider variation of learning because their careers have already been guided to them throughout what's been around them their whole lives. Kids are just forming jobs and other things needed in life based on what they have grown up on. We come to realize how important the society and environment you grow up in is. It's basically a preview of your own life because rarely kids go the opposite of what they have grown up to love. Overall, in this text we are taught that students are expected to learn in one way, and if they fail to do so they will have loads of problems in the upcoming future. 

https://career.sites.clemson.edu/parents/parent-guide-to-career-development.pdf