As an educator, we need to be able to encourage students to learn from different stories and experiences that come from different heritages and cultures in our world. So many people have different background stories. If students are raised to only know one part of the story, then they will only think they will get the chance to have one story. She only knew to write about white peoples families because that’s all she knew about. She didn’t think that she could have her own story. In Sweet Home we have such a variety of cultures that we need to make sure that this does not happen.
Pairing the history video along with this Ted talk, was very smart. It was able to show the importance of diverse perspectives. The danger of a single story did a very nice job of making sure we know as educators to not rely on that single story. But if we respect that others come from different backgrounds, maybe a new story will be written for the people around us. Unfortunately, our society is too quick at judging people. Social media does not help with us at all. We need to take the time to go back from history, and no, each other’s passed in order to create the future..
Pairing the history video along with this Ted talk, was very smart. It was able to show the importance of diverse perspectives. The danger of a single story did a very nice job of making sure we know as educators to not rely on that single story. But if we respect that others come from different backgrounds, maybe a new story will be written for the people around us. Unfortunately, our society is too quick at judging people. Social media does not help with us at all. We need to take the time to go back from history, and no, each other’s passed in order to create the future..