Week Three Reflection
We were assigned two assignments this past week. We had to write a reflection blog about the prior week and a piece on the banking concept of education/problem-posing education. The banking concept/problem-posing was fun for me. We had to read a piece by Paulo Freire. The man had revolutionary ideas. I’m actually considering buying his book, The Pedagogy of Oppression. I have no idea when I’d actually have time to read it, but I’m going to eventually. In class this past Thursday we worked on our websites and discussed banking concept vs problem-posing. Michael, Anna, Emily, Ben and I stayed a bit after class to further discuss Freire’s ideas with Professor Mangini. I was thrilled to see how excited these kids were about what we learned. I have no doubt that if they stick with school they will do great. In class we did a practice where the professor had us close our eyes and write about what we perceived for a few minutes while he walked around the class and messed with stuff, making all kinds of noise. Afterward we talked about freewriting, which is the act of writing continuously, nonstop. If you mentally hit a roadblock, write about it. Mangini gave us 3 minutes to freewrite. I focused on the time and couldn’t think about much more, but as I wrote about losing focus on the writing, I came back to the writing. The Freire piece has been my most enjoyable to work on to date. His ideas of the education system being oppressive are something I actually wrote about in week one. It kind of reminded of that scene in the Matrix where Lawrence Fishburn says to Keanu Reeves “There’s something inherently wrong with the world… blah blah blah…”
Being in class isn’t really much of a struggle for me at all. I enjoy it. I’m still juggling the task of trying to get my writing and reading done while tending to my kids. Star Wars is coming to Netflix soon, and I want to watch the flicks with my son. September 5th was my 2 year old son Simon’s birthday. I don’t think I mentioned that in my last reflection. We did some swimming at my Mom’s house and had a nice little party for him. This past week (I guess Friday the 11th-Thursday the 17th) was kind of blah. I pretty much focused on my writing after work and read through chapter 3 in Psych. I wasn’t too confident that I retained the info, but tonight at work I actually broke down most of the chapter with a kid who’s taking psych in high school. I took a practice test and got most the answers right. I found out on Tuesday that a buddy I’ve known since grade school overdosed on heroin. His funeral was today. I wasn’t too close with him, but he was a really close friend of one of my closest buddies. I’m getting sick of this heroin shit. Its like an epidemic. I cut off all my friends who fuck with drugs. I don’t like that shit… I worry about my kids getting mixed up in that shit when they are older. On another note, last Thursday the 10th I went to this wacky flea market in Willingboro New Jersey with my wife Shannon and my kids. There was this really cool vintage toy store. They had a shit ton of toys I had when I was a kid (Transformers, He-Man, Star Wars, Thundercats, Pee Wee Herman shit, GI Joe, E.T., etc…) Shit was dope. I bought my son a Super Grover toy. The flea market was filled with stores selling weird shit, like knock off toys… They looked like Toy Story figurines, but were from the dark side of china or some shit. Fake toys crack me up. Cheesy ass packaging and Bart Simpson has red skin? Wtf? Anyhow, I always thought he was jaundiced out… but the flea market was weird. I’ll go back. I copped a case of 54 keurig Starbucks K-cups for $20. That’s my excitement right now. But it’s all good. I tried to watch Straight Out of Compton last Wednesday night but kept falling asleep. If you haven’t downloaded Kodi XBMC on your android phone or tablet, you are missing out. Stream shit and cast it to your TV. Dopeness. Maybe I’ll write more, maybe not… but right now I’m beat. Peace
We were assigned two assignments this past week. We had to write a reflection blog about the prior week and a piece on the banking concept of education/problem-posing education. The banking concept/problem-posing was fun for me. We had to read a piece by Paulo Freire. The man had revolutionary ideas. I’m actually considering buying his book, The Pedagogy of Oppression. I have no idea when I’d actually have time to read it, but I’m going to eventually. In class this past Thursday we worked on our websites and discussed banking concept vs problem-posing. Michael, Anna, Emily, Ben and I stayed a bit after class to further discuss Freire’s ideas with Professor Mangini. I was thrilled to see how excited these kids were about what we learned. I have no doubt that if they stick with school they will do great. In class we did a practice where the professor had us close our eyes and write about what we perceived for a few minutes while he walked around the class and messed with stuff, making all kinds of noise. Afterward we talked about freewriting, which is the act of writing continuously, nonstop. If you mentally hit a roadblock, write about it. Mangini gave us 3 minutes to freewrite. I focused on the time and couldn’t think about much more, but as I wrote about losing focus on the writing, I came back to the writing. The Freire piece has been my most enjoyable to work on to date. His ideas of the education system being oppressive are something I actually wrote about in week one. It kind of reminded of that scene in the Matrix where Lawrence Fishburn says to Keanu Reeves “There’s something inherently wrong with the world… blah blah blah…”
Being in class isn’t really much of a struggle for me at all. I enjoy it. I’m still juggling the task of trying to get my writing and reading done while tending to my kids. Star Wars is coming to Netflix soon, and I want to watch the flicks with my son. September 5th was my 2 year old son Simon’s birthday. I don’t think I mentioned that in my last reflection. We did some swimming at my Mom’s house and had a nice little party for him. This past week (I guess Friday the 11th-Thursday the 17th) was kind of blah. I pretty much focused on my writing after work and read through chapter 3 in Psych. I wasn’t too confident that I retained the info, but tonight at work I actually broke down most of the chapter with a kid who’s taking psych in high school. I took a practice test and got most the answers right. I found out on Tuesday that a buddy I’ve known since grade school overdosed on heroin. His funeral was today. I wasn’t too close with him, but he was a really close friend of one of my closest buddies. I’m getting sick of this heroin shit. Its like an epidemic. I cut off all my friends who fuck with drugs. I don’t like that shit… I worry about my kids getting mixed up in that shit when they are older. On another note, last Thursday the 10th I went to this wacky flea market in Willingboro New Jersey with my wife Shannon and my kids. There was this really cool vintage toy store. They had a shit ton of toys I had when I was a kid (Transformers, He-Man, Star Wars, Thundercats, Pee Wee Herman shit, GI Joe, E.T., etc…) Shit was dope. I bought my son a Super Grover toy. The flea market was filled with stores selling weird shit, like knock off toys… They looked like Toy Story figurines, but were from the dark side of china or some shit. Fake toys crack me up. Cheesy ass packaging and Bart Simpson has red skin? Wtf? Anyhow, I always thought he was jaundiced out… but the flea market was weird. I’ll go back. I copped a case of 54 keurig Starbucks K-cups for $20. That’s my excitement right now. But it’s all good. I tried to watch Straight Out of Compton last Wednesday night but kept falling asleep. If you haven’t downloaded Kodi XBMC on your android phone or tablet, you are missing out. Stream shit and cast it to your TV. Dopeness. Maybe I’ll write more, maybe not… but right now I’m beat. Peace