In honor of Respect for All week, we are going to screen a film called "A Class Divided" and write about the film.
Please click on this link to watch the film (use the continuous play feature).
When you finish, please answer the questions below in Google Docs. Then post to our class blog.
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What
did you learn?
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What
scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why
those scenes?
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Did
any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race,
ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
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Both
Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should
be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful
to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might
do?
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It's
easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher,
but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the
adults object?
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How
is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me
not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that we can not have discrimination to our classmate and our friends. It is a very bad behavior to us.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I remembered those children were supported by each other, I think this is very touched to us.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, many part of the film was surprised me, I think different races, ethnicity, or religion will find it surprising, because every one is equal to each other, we can not discriminate others.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think this exercise can keep continuing because this exercise can help children to know more information about discrimination.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because those children are only child, they will not refuse to their teachers. Also, those adults were touched by this activity, and they understood how this behavior important. So thay did not object this .
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
They do not want to have discriminate between them. And they will respect for each other. It is very important to us and the world.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that we should never discriminate others no matter what. No one likes to be treated like they are less important.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
The scene that on the second day, the teacher told the group of kids with different eye color that they were superior to the other group.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, the response that students had after they grew up. Some responses surprise me.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think that is a very good idea. Because they will learn a lot about discrimination and they will know that we should not discriminate others.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because they like the idea of being better than other.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Because you will never know what they think if you don’t have similar experience.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learnt how to put ourselves in other people’s shoes especially those who are discriminated. Also I learnt people will be more respectful if they once were treated unfairly.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I will remember the scene that the adults who are the former 3rd graders come back to the school and they still have those feeling printed in their heart.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yeah, one of the child felt it was wonderful to be superior than others. He liked the feeling to be like a king. I think other group of people will also find it surprising.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think it should be done over children. Because it’s the reality in the world and they should touch it by themselves. Actual discrimination is the same situation when the teacher said blue eyes are the best while you are brown eyes. In addition, there would be a lot of regulation and unfair rules on brown eyes.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because they are all educated and sophisticated. They have their own experience and they want to know their score.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Blue eyes/brown eyes exercise is the same situation when we are kind of ignorance due to the absence of unfair treatment directly to us.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned about the importance of treating others the way you want to be treated. I also noticed people’ feelings when they were being discriminated against.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I think I will remember the scene where the teacher switched the “superior group” of eye color. It made the students who discriminated others on the first day to have the feelings of being discriminated. Another scene I will remember is the oral fight an adult had with Elliott. The way Elliott treated her was really bad and that adult was fighting back.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, there are some part of the film surprised me. the film mentioned a research on students’ exam performance. They all performed better when they were consider superior and when they worked together with others. In other words, students performed badly when they were being discriminated against. I think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising because the issue of racism and discrimination could happen and affect any group of people.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
In my opinion, this exercise might be harmful to some children while actual discrimination would do more. I still think all children should do this exercise. This exercise will help us to know how it feel when we are the minority group and when we are being discriminated against. When we know it really hurts, we won’t intend to hurt other people. Try to imagine if we discriminate other people, those people who are being discriminated will basically perform badly on everything in their life. It just makes their life harder.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
I think it’s because they are also curious of that exercise. They might want to be empathetic.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
I think both of them express the same idea. The exercise make childrens judge others by the eye color. External appearance has other to do with one’s inside. You never know others’ experience if you don’t get to know them.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that you should not judge people on their look, you should judge them on what kind of person they are.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
When on the second day teacher said them, that she lied about the superior color of eyes.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
This film surprised me a lot, how a 3rd grader teacher can change the opinion of her students. That our teachers can affect our future, what they will teach us, it will stay with us. Here we can see a life lesson, and this lesson changed those kids a lot.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think it will be harmful to children only in that way if it was bad. Here what we have, they trying to teach children that racism is bad, and after they are trying to do the same thing with adults. In early ages, children learning about the world, and what will they learn it will stay with them. So I think it was a good thing, that they taught kids that discrimination is bad.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Childrens also care about their score, they also trying to be better than others.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
I think we can’t judge the person till the time we will know who is this person, is that a good or bad person, then, after all the experience we gained we can start judging that person.
· What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteWe are all same, we are all equal. Even though we have different color of hair, skin, eyes. Don not discriminate others.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I saw a boy is very angry, the teacher said the brown eyes are better than his blue eyes. The look on his face said that he was angry. But he cannot say anything to argue.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The teacher asked a boy who has brown eyes to write “w” on the blackboard. And she said the brown eyes people are better than blue eyes people. I don’t think so.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think children who experiences discrimination will not discriminate others. Because he known these feeling. I think Elliott teached them and letted them feel discrimination is a daring lesson. The discrimination might be jeer others.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because they are young, they will not refuse to their teachers. And they would accept the lesson more easy.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
I think we can’t judge the person is bad or good from blue eyes or brown eyes. The outward appearance can not decide a person.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you learn?
I learned that everyone can be different, but no person shall discriminate others based on their race, religion, or ethnicity.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I would remember the 2nd scene, which is “Day Two”. In this scene I learned that we are all equal, no matter what, we can’t judge people based on their backgrounds. Also, being discriminated is humiliating. Therefore, with that lesson, I believe that the children will learn not to discriminate others.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, when the teacher started to separate the section of the class. I saw that many of the kids were treated unequally, that is really astonishing. As an audience, I feel like every kid deserves their right to be treated equally. Of course it would, because they will be surprised how the teacher judged the kids unfairly.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I do think that this exercise should be done with all children. This may be an extreme exercise, however, this can be something that they will not ever forget. I think that the actual discrimination will greatly impact the children’s lives. Their self-esteem might extremely decline, it also might stay in their mind for a long time.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
As we all know, a human’s mind can be shaped when they are young. It is pretty easy to teach or tell something to a child, they don’t have much things in their mind, that is not what make them so innocent. However, when they get older, they learn things as they grow up. Therefore, an adult may be much harder to be taught.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
It really is related to the Sioux prayer, in a way that you will not want to be discriminated based on your race, religion, or ethnicity. In this case, based on the color of your eyes. This exercise will wake up the children’s mind that being discriminated is so humiliating. Thus, both of them deliver a message that no man shall discriminate nor be discriminated based on their backgrounds.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that everyone can be different, but no person shall discriminate others based on their race, religion, or ethnicity.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
When on the second day teacher said them, that she lied about the superior color of eyes.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The teacher asked a boy who has brown eyes to write “w” on the blackboard. And she said the brown eyes people are better than blue eyes people. I don’t think so.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think that is a very good idea. Because they will learn a lot about discrimination and they will know that we should not discriminate others.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because those children are only child, they will not refuse to their teachers. Also, those adults were touched by this activity, and they understood how this behavior important. So thay did not object this .
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
I think both of them express the same idea. The exercise make childrens judge others by the eye color. External appearance has other to do with one’s inside. You never know others’ experience if you don’t get to know them.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteWe are equal , we are the same . these different color , skin , language ,tradition …can not stop us to respect others and make friend with others .
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
In this film I saw here have one student who have blue eyes , other people ridicule him ,did not respect him . this student feel uncomfortably stay in the class .
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
I was surprised when they ridicule the blue eyes student , no body stop that and help him . that is a big problem in there . we can not discrimination others . also their responses surprise me .
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to
children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think this is a good exercise to do . because they can learn more about respect and discrimination .
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because when the human was young their mind is very simple and blank , we can shaped a good idea and a good point od view for their mind . They can learn something when they are grow up .
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
We can not judge a blue eyes/brown eyes person is good or bad . If they never enjoy this exercise they can not know other's life .
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that teaching kids about how bad is discrimination can help build a no place for hate environment for everyone.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
The time when those third graders get together after the exercise and they were really happy for being with their friends again.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, the time when all the students came back and remembered the feeling that they had back into the third grade.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think its a good way to teach the children about the discrimination because that time if they understand discrimination really hurts peoples then they will never hurt others and they will teach their generation about that. And its the real life so they have to know there is no good side except worst when its about discrimination.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Because they know the teacher is doing something different to make their children to understand better.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Because they both have similar idea.
I learned that we should not discriminate anyone based on ethnicity, color,religion,race, language etc that are different from each other. we all need to respect and treat other equally.
ReplyDeleteScenes that i will remember are, the way kids behave and obeyed their teacher and after the exercise they behaved each other well as before. And those students are using those knowledge to teach their own children.
Part that surprise me is when some kids found them as king after the first part of the exercise. and I think other different race or ethnicity will find it surprising.
I don’t think it would be harmful to play this game with all children because will help them to understand how it feel when someone discriminated. And Ithink actual discrimination would more harmful to them.
I think adult found it interesting and and also adult respect their teacher.
This exercise and the saying are much related. Both of them express the idea of feeling pain of being discriminated and the massage is we should judge people from their point of view before we judge them from ours.
Mahim and Progga
ReplyDeleteMahim: I learned that we should not discriminate anyone based on ethnicity, color,religion,race, language etc that are different from each other. we all need to respect and treat other equally.
Progga: I learned that we don’t have right to discriminate someone based on ethnicity,color,religion,race, language etc that are different from each other. we all need to respect each other.
Mahim: Scenes that i will remember are, the way kids behave and obeyed their teacher and after the exercise they behaved each other well as before..
Progga: Scenes that i will remember are, the way teacher taught them how to behave with others, how kids behaved and obeyed their teacher and after the exercise they behaved each other well as before.
Mahim: Part that surprise me is when some kids found them as king after the first part of the exercise and I think other different race or ethnicity will find it surprising.
Progga: The teacher asked a boy who has brown eyes to write “w” on the blackboard. And she said the brown eyes people are better than blue eyes people. I don’t think so.
Mahim: I think that is a very good idea. Because they will learn a lot about discrimination and they will know that we should not discriminate others.
Progga: I think it will be harmful to children only in that way if it was bad. Here what we have, they trying to teach children that racism is bad, and after they are trying to do the same thing with adults.
Mahim: This exercise and the saying are much related. Both of them express the idea of feeling pain of being discriminated and the massage is we should judge people from their point of view before we judge them from ours.
Progga: I think both of them express the same idea. The exercise make childrens judge others by the eye color. External appearance has other to do with one’s inside. You never know others’ experience if you don’t get to know them.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteThis film pinpointed that we are not aware of things and forget to put ourselves in other people’s shoes until the same thing happens to us.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I will still remember the scene where Elliott was blaming a blue-eyed man standing at the back and nobody wanted to step in from blue-eyed group. The explanation provided by a lady stating that people always choose to be in winning side as long as they are not affected, reflects the reality.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
I found this film surprising from the beginning when Elliott started her lesson plan. It is not ordinary teaching technique and it might seriously leave some racism in the kids’ minds if not properly taught. Yes, I also think everyone will be astounded by this whole new concept of this discrimination lesson plan.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I really like this exercise and believe that it might be both helpful and harmful to children. It will be helpful if children understand how to empathize with others and the exercise can be wrapped up well at the end. However, it might be harmful for others because this is inserting discrimination inside their minds with their experiences if they do not get it well.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Adults are engaged in this exercise and want to see others’ reactions and even their own in this kind of situation. That’s why they don’t object.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Judgement should not be made by the cover of the book. What really matters is what is inside of you. Any physical traits are negligible. Therefore, before you want to say something about somebody, try to be in his/her point of view and feel how it would be like.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that even though we have differences in anyway, we have different cultural background, different skin color, different races, but in common, we are all equal to one another, we should get treat equally.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I think I will remember the lesson that is on judgement on eye color, because I never heard that discrimination can be made base on eye color, and it teaches us how we will be feel when we are been discriminated in order that we can learn how to respect others.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, this film really surprise me a lot, this film shows how teachers can affect students, and these education are important for these students, they will learn how to respect others, and they knew the feeling of been treated unequally so I believe that they are going to judge others in same way, and I think someone who has differences will feel in same way, because no one want to get unequal treatment.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think this exercise should be done, because this is a great lesson for these students, when these students are very young, it is easier to shape their mind, after this lesson, they will know how others are feeling when he treat others unequally, and of course they don’t want others to treat themselves differently, in this way, they will learn a lot.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
I believed that these adults want their children learn how to respect others, and they would understand how important for children to learn positively.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
I think both of them express that don’t judge others based on their appearance, everyone has different background, judge others based on how their looks like is really disrespectful.
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ReplyDeleteWhat did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that how to put myself in someone else shoes and see the world through their eyes. I also learned how hard life can be for those people who are being discriminated in this world.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I remember the scene when the teacher said that the brown eyes were better than the blue eyes which offended the boy very much.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Yes, when the teacher started to separate the section of the class. I saw that many of the kids were treated unequally which really shocked me. I think most of the people would find it astonishing.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think this is a good exercise for the children because they can learn more about respect and discrimination so they can be aware of it .
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Its easy because the children mind are easier to be shaped because of their innocence compare to the mind of an adult they will obey what they want to obey.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"
It is very related to the sioux prayer, in a way that you will not want to be discriminated based on your race, religion, or ethnicity. They also have a similar idea within them.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learnt that People are born physically different but they should not be judged by their appearance or their race, religion or ethnicity. Also it’s very important what we teach and how we act in front of kids because they follow what the elders do.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I will remember the scene where a boy was trying to tear off the collar when she told them to throw it away because it shows me how they really hated the activity of treating each other differently.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
When I first saw the video I was surprised to see how she is teaching these students but later it all made sense to me. It’s also amazing how these little kids change their ability to perform in academic activities in a short term of 24 hours before and after they were tested with the experiment.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think this should be done with all the kids because these issues should be taught to kids at a fundamental age which will reflect and have a great effect in their lifestyle to make a better planet without discrimination.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
The kids are more likely to obey teachers because they don’t always learn to refuse, but the adults are really touched by the activity and they might understand the purpose of this activity.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
It is related to the sioux prayer that you won’t be discriminated because of race, discrimination or religion.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteWhat i learned from this film was, discrimination didn’t submerge from physical boundaries but instead from psychological boundaries.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I think i will still remember the entire movie and each little detail of it a month from now because, this movie is really capturable and thoughtful.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
yes , in fact the entire film surprised me, and i also think someone of a different race,ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think?
I am positively thinking that, this exercise should be done with all children because children of today are the adults of a tomorow, if we don’t teach them the right thing, we should not even imagine how the future society will be like.
If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
well, if a simple exercise like this could be harmful to children, lets imagine what actual discrimination might do. when someone is actually being discriminated, you have a another level of anger against that person, you feel like the only way to feel free is if that person doesn’t exist anymore, you might even hate your own self.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
i think the reason why the adults didn’t object is because at that time people were not open to stand up against discrimination.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
This exercise related to the Sioux prayer by the fact that at first the blue eyes people were the good ones and the brown eyes ones were the ones being discriminated but when they reverse the situation, at that time the blue eyes people felt the way the brown eyes people felt. It’s only when you are in someone’s shoes that you can really know how he/she feels about a situation.
• What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that in order to make a change you have to start with little kids because you can easily use philosophy to change their way of thinking.
• What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
The part that got stuck in my head and I’ll remember a month from now is the activity the kids had in the classroom.
• Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The part of the movie that surprised me was the kids with the color target would get low grade but as soon as they switch their grades improve. I think someone else would think the same way as me
• Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I believe it’s good but it is risky you might get in trouble for discriminating kids.
• It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
It is easier to brainwash little kids than adults.
• How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
They now know how it feels to be judged by others and be forbidden to get close to the other group.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that in order to make a change you have to use philosophy to change others thinking.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
The activity I will remember is when the teacher made kids feel in other way.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The part of the movie that surprised me when the teacher said that kids with blue eyes are smarter than kids with brown eyes. After that kids hate each other so much, that friends became enemy’s.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
She was in a risky, because she didn’t know how kids will react to that exercise. She might get in trouble for discriminating kids. In my opinion the exercise was necessary to show to kids, how discriminated people feels.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
It’s easier to work with kids than with adults. Kids listen adults no!
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Now kids now how discriminated people feels.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned how discrimination might affect a group of people and that we don’t have to judge people based on their physical appearance.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I won’t forget the scenes of the teacher with the students on the second day, when the students were told that she lied and the brown eyes are superior.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The last part was extremely surprising because it was so weird that the teacher discriminated the blue eyes people.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think if the teacher spoke to the parents first, it wouldn't be harmful and she wouldn't be on risk. They could see a different reaction.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Kids are more likely to obey teachers and the reason why adults didn't react could be that they knew they were being part of a program, but at the end, they were getting upset.
How are the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Both of them talk about the same idea and also, they teach us that we will never learn if we don’t have similar experiences.
-What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteAns:I learned that everyone can be different, but no person shall discriminate others based on their race, religion, or ethnicity and we all should respect each other.
-What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
Ans: I would remember the 2nd scene, which is “Day Two”. In this scene I learned that we are all equal, no matter what, we can’t judge people based on their backgrounds. Also, being discriminated is humiliating. Therefore, with that lesson, I believe that the children will learn not to discriminate others.
-Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
Ans: Yes, when the teacher started to separate the section of the class. I saw that many of the kids were treated unequally, that is really astonishing. As an audience, I feel like every kid deserves their right to be treated equally. Of course it would, because they will be surprised how the teacher judged the kids unfairly.
-Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
Ans: I do think that this exercise should be done with all children. This may be an extreme exercise, however, this can be something that they will not ever forget. I think that the actual discrimination will greatly impact the children’s lives. Their self-esteem might extremely decline, it also might stay in their mind for a long time.
-It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Ans: As we all know, a human’s mind can be shaped when they are young. It is pretty easy to teach or tell something to a child, they don’t have much things in their mind, that is not what make them so innocent. However, when they get older, they learn things as they grow up. Therefore, an adult may be much harder to be taught.
-How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
Ans: It really is related to the Sioux prayer, in a way that you will not want to be discriminated based on your race, religion, or ethnicity. In this case, based on the color of your eyes. This exercise will wake up the children’s mind that being discriminated is so humiliating. Thus, both of them deliver a message that no man shall discriminate nor be discriminated based on their backgrounds.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteThrough this film, I learned a really big lesson which I think everyone should also know is that we shouldn’t discriminate because it is not a good feeling to have to be discriminated. Just imagine yourself being treated differently by people just because you have a certain eye color. Do you think it is fair to judge a person based on their eye color and then say things about them that aren’t even true?
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I still remember the scene on the second day of the experiment where the brown eyed kids were told that they were better than the blue eyes kids. Both groups expressions, abilities and also how they treated their classmates took a 360 degree turn from how it was the day before.
·Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The children’s behavior from day one and day two from both group really surprised me. They went from being best friends to enemies.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
Well, this exercise was done a long time ago. If a teacher were to do this activity in class during this time, it might harm the children. Also a lot of parents nowadays already teach their children to respect everyone and not to discriminate someone just because he/she is different.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Well they all knew that they were there for a workshop and they just wanted others reaction and think critically and thoroughly everything Elliot said.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
These two are so related. We are human beings. We can only relate to a feeling with another person if we’ve been through the same situation. Other than that, we just naturally do or say certain hurtful things without knowing.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that we can not have discrimination to our classmate and our friends. It is a very bad behavior to us and to others. No one likes to be treated like they are less important. I think we should all be equal.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I remembered those children were supported by each other, I think this is very touched to us.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
The teacher asked a boy who has brown eyes to write “w” on the blackboard. And she said the brown eyes people are better than blue eyes people. I don’t think so.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I do think that this exercise should be done with all children. This may be an extreme exercise, however, this can be something that they will not ever forget. I think that the actual discrimination will greatly impact the children’s lives. Their self-esteem might extremely decline, it also might stay in their mind for a long time.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Its easy because the children mind are easier to be shaped because of their innocence compare to the mind of an adult they will obey what they want to obey.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
It is related to the Sioux prayer that you won’t be discriminated because of race, discrimination or religion.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that being discriminated can be caused by characteristics other than skin color.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I will remember the scene when she just told the 3rd grade students about the blue eyed/brown eyed thing and how they reacted to it.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
I was surprised when the teacher just told the students about the blue eyed/brown eyed thing and how a couple of students actually didn’t believe it and said it wasn’t true.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think the exercise was helpful to the students. These students had felt how being discriminated really feels like. Knowing the feeling of it will always hold these people from discriminating others
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
Adults are engaged in this exercise and want to see others’ reactions and even their own in this kind of situation. That’s why they don’t object.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
It helped me understand that judgement should not be made by the cover of the book. All that really matters is what’s inside of you, not the way you look.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteThis video teaches us how people find many different reasons to discriminate others and how even someone's eye color might be a reason for people to be treated differently.
What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
I think the comments kids made about each other during the experiment and how they treated each other are some of the scenes I will remember.
Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
I think everyone finds the film as a whole surprising, regardless of their race ethnicity or religion because eye color is such an universal trait that nobody could ever thought that would be a reason to discriminate someone.
Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
After kids went through the exercise, their grades went up because they felt more confident about who they are and, therefore, I think the exercise could be helpful to teach kids how to be confident besides teaching them about discrimination. I think real discrimination impacts peoples lives in a very negative way through their whole lives just as the exercise had a negative impact on the kids performance.
It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
People don't object perhaps because they started to believe that they were actually inferior and, therefore, they weren't supposed to make objections.
How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
If we have been in someone's shoes, we don't judge them because we understand how they feel by being in the same situation. The eye color exercise makes puts makes people experience what it is to be discriminated and judged upon and teaches them how not to be judgmental.
What did you learn?
ReplyDeletei learned that discrimination is raised up in people’s mind that this kind of people should not have rights, however the truth is after people felt what it means to be discriminated they understood that all people are equal
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
the experiment about blue and brown eyes, which are better, this is because it made feel
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
yes that the teacher having such a great idea about the color for eyes, for example
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
i think this was a great experience for the kids, however it was rough but they haven't forget it throughout their life so it was a positive thing to do
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object. Discrimination actually means that to be against some group of people or person based on their physical look.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?\\
Because when i put myself on other people shoes and feel how they feel and that will make a difference in my perspective, and that will will change my mind in a positive way
What did you learn?
ReplyDeleteI learned that we should not judge people for their appearance but what they actually are from their inside. I also learned that people should not be discriminated based on their religion, race or their culture.
· What scene or scenes do you think you'll still remember a month from now and why those scenes?
i will not forget easily the scene where the teacher lied to the children about the discrimination based on eye-color. i had an impact on my feelings.
· Did any part of the film surprise you? Do you think someone of a different race, ethnicity, or religion would also find it surprising?
i got surprised from the part where the teacher discriminated blue-eye persons.
· Both Elliott and her former students talk about whether or not this exercise should be done with all children. What do you think? If the exercise could be harmful to children, as Elliott suggests, what do you think actual discrimination might do?
I think it shouldn't be done with all children because it would cause a negative effect in their ideas about discrimination since they don't have a complete developed mentality.
· It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
I think they did not refuse to be part of this exercise because they knew it was a way to educate people by making this film.
· How is the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise related to the Sioux prayer, "Help me not judge a person until I have walked in his shoes"?
It is related because in both cases the message is to don't judge people until you have been through the same obstacles or problems alike.