I watched the TED talk that talks about the idea that some people only hear one story their whole lives and that is all they will know because that is all they hear. It was interesting to hear about her experiences with her roommate having only one assumption about people from Africa and thinking one way about those people. I think this is an important lesson for students to understand as well because we want our students to be bigger thinkers than the speakers' roommate. We want our students to not think of groups of people based on their stereotypes but rather based on who that person is. We don't want them to become just the single thing they are described as in these stories. The middle school students that I work with can be very impressionable and we must be careful as the adults they see day in and day out how we prevent these "single stories".
