According to Vivian Vasquez's article, "Our Way: Using the Everyday to Create a Critical Literacy Curriculum" from class, "This power ranger story helped me realize that I needed to listen to my students differently"(2000).
I keep thinking about observing my second graders at recess. Sometimes students make up games according to what they have seen on TV or heard about through others. Since the Twilight movies have come out, students have mimicked the way the vampires run and they try to catch their peers in a particular form of the game "tag". The students would run around with their arms behind them and they acted like bats flying through the air to portray the popular image of the vampire. One of the ways that students seem to learn how to interact with their peers is using what they have seen or heard through numerous literacies in the world they live in.
I agree with Vasquez that teachers need to carefully listen and speak with their students in a way that connects them to their own life experiences and support appropriate behavior at the same time.
Great observation! When we allow ourselves to take the time to notice or are looking for something i think it is amazing what we will find.
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