Journal Entry #9#DifferentTimes In my academic life there isn't a large number of moments, events and experiences that first stick out in my mind in the beginning of my ideation process. I've already journaled about my experiences in elementary school, being bullied in middle school, and my high school having very low expectations for a large majority of their student population. But the last thing that I usually think about, that relates to all three ideas and events is the transition from each, elementary school, middle school, high school and even into college life. The main three elements from this topic that I will be reflecting on is through friendships, technology, and of course the academics of each.
Now in elementary school I started originally in first grade, I didn't attend your average kindergarten in the district like most kids, so this was one reason I was academically behind according to the districts standards. But one thing that I remember about Woodglenn elementary school was my friends, everyone was friends with each other, in terms of bullying it did really exists from what I know of. Now, not every elementary school from what I learned after moving to a different one and observing at Beattie is like Woodglenn. And compared to middle school it was a lot more difficult to make friends, a common theme if found from gathering people's reflection about middle school. In all 6th-8th grade is just a difficult time for students from all generations, its harder to make friends because of drama, the chemical makeup of students in 6th-8th grade is just all out of whack from hormones. Friends for me became easier in high school as I didn't care much about making friends or wanting to be accepted, after three years of being bullied in middle school I lost interest in trying to impress the “popular students”. And in college I didn't start out wanting to make friends but being in the dorms living with the same people and rooming with my best friend from high school it actually became a lot easier to make friends because we all had multiple things in common and got to know each other. Now in my life from friends I have about two friends from high school still in my life, and the rest are from becoming friends in the dorms at Newsom. Now technology, again I've written about how technology has affected my life briefly, and the drastic increase of it in the last 10 years. But this goes back from starting at my kindergarten at the parochial school to college life now. Comparing my kindergarten with the ones I have at Beattie its very drastically different regarding the use of tech. From what the teacher has told us is, she's noticed a lack of motor skills, critical thinking and creativity from the Kinders, and she’s linked them to the greater use of technology in the younger kids. When I was 4 or 5 we had one large computer at home, a TV, Radio, and a home phone. So overall my childhood was mostly spent watching tv if we looked at my use of tech at that age, the most I could do was play a VHS tape onto the TV, and call my grandma on the home phone. My creative experience was great because of my mom, she drew cartoons and painted often with me from a young age, so without the technology I was able to be more creative, explore art and Praxis. Kids in the 21st century are not doing this with their parents from what I’ve observed. And finishing up with reflection on academics, that for me didn't become more of my priority till I got into high school, as I just skated by in 6th-8th grade, doing what needed to be done to get by. But in high school and comparing to college, I feel that in college I definitely saw a difference in curriculum and how I looked at homework then I did in high school. Some of it could be that I wasn't in advanced college prep classes in high school, so getting into college it became somewhat daunting and a shock for me about the workload. Maybe that's why I chose to pursue art because it was a familiar feeling and knowledge from highschool to college. This subject is a good topic to explore when it comes to creating art and showing the change or revisions made as the whole K-college experience was one big revision regarding the three topics I wrote about. You could easily create an art collection for each grade, how I felt from each grade, exploring different mediums for the emotions that are being felt. For example in 7th grade it was my lowest I’ve ever felt regarding my mental health, bullying and constant sickness that I experienced made me drained, physically and mentally, so I would use darker colors, charcoal, and very abstract forms to exhibit how I was feeling during this time in my life. Finally as an art teacher keeping in mind all these three topics as I see that students know these are their three main concerns in K-12 life. Friends (social status), Technology, and Academics are things as a teacher in any subject you have to keep in mind with your students, and even yourself. I think that we forget sometimes in college to have an actual life outside of academics, and that's doing things with friends and now a days I find that I go to technology to help relieve stress, through Youtube videos, writing on a blog like this, and creating artwork digitally helps with stress.
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