HW for the Wednesday night 1A class

Hey there, below are 4 assignments for you to do, and then to post to your blog. (I had said I would give you 3 assignments, but this way we can do 4 and then 4 more on Monday--to kind of balance out the work.)

1. For this post assignment, you are asked to first watch this video that was made by 2 students here at Chabot. The movie profiles 6 kinds of community college students. After watching it, please create a post on your own blog that is a response to the movie. Questions you can consider: Which kind of student do you consider yourself to be? How do you feel about being a ___________ kind of student? Do you want to change categories? How might you do so? How can we talk about where students are in their college experience without turning it into a kind of "blamegame?" What role or relationship does Passion play here?

2. For the second assignment you are asked to read chapters 9 and 10 in our text, Why School? (pages 117-137) One of the things Rose writes about is that there seems to be an impulse in Higher Education to "kick remediation off campus." Write a post in which you discuss whether or not you agree with this idea. (Remember to Rule of 3 this, bc it is a complex issue and you will want to dig into it.)

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3. For your third assignment, please watch this video interview with Jeff Duncan Andrade. Please write a post in response to this interview. Here are some questions to consider (you don't need to do them all): 

What seems to be his philosophy of education? What do you think about his philosophy? Why is he such a badass lol? In what ways does this interview speak to or reflect your own experiences with education?

4. For this assignment you are asked to see if you can find your own video to embed and write a post about. The video should have some relationship to education. It can be explicitly about education, like the two videos above, or it can be a video that perhaps talks about education in a more symbolic or metaphorical way. (For example, one student picked a video of a person bungee jumping whose cord broke. The student wrote about how that could be a metaphor for education.) What ever video you pick, you should write a post that explains why you picked it and how it relates to education.