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Group 3 - Megan Stevens, Thanujaa Parameswaran, Julia Augurusa, Lisa Conte

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Group 3 - Megan Stevens, Thanujaa Parameswaran, Julia Augurusa, Lisa Conte

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Group 9 - Abisha Visakan, Alana Gnida, Emina Gladstone, Julia Frank

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Group 9 - Abisha Visakan, Alana Gnida, Emina Gladstone, Julia Frank

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- Media
- Street smart - learning by knowing or associating with people
- Our own cultures and beliefs
- Prejudice and stereotypes

Transformative knowledge can enhance or create conflict when teaching between students or students and teachers. As teachers, it is important for us to recognize that any knowledge we're passing on is not objective, whether or not we are aware of it, the knowledge we're presenting always reflects a societal standard.

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Sabrina M, Mariam S, Natalie P, Danesha J

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Sabrina M, Mariam S, Natalie P, Danesha J

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-Some examples of this knowledge: do not wear shoes in the house, and respecting elders.
-This knowledge affects us as teachers because the classroom culture can be impacted through the knowledge we bring about what we deem is acceptable vs what is not.
-This can affect student's because it can cause teachers to make assumptions about students without really knowing what their cultural knowledge is

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School knowledge can only be found inside the school/educational institution. Tests evaluate student memorization rather than understanding and applies pressure to the student. There is a place for tests, making connections between different student's understanding but it is not equitable. Having different forms of assessment would be more beneficial to student engagement. Certain subjects that are more formula based are harder to challenge, however often times in English, teachers expect students to look for the missing voices.

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Examples of Personal/Cultural Knowledge
- Family values
- family rules and expectations
- religion/faith
- community/where they live
- Friends perspectives/peer influence

How it affects teachers
- ensuring everyone in the class gets their voices heard
- ensuring we do not discriminate against our students experiences
- making sure all students are represented within the classroom through our open ended materials
- bringing in students cultural assets to the classrooms
- celebrating all our students perspectives
- maintaining relationships with students families

How it affects students
- possibility for students to be discriminated or bullied
- affects students academic performance
- affects students friendships
- their personal and cultural experiences will influence how they learn best and interact within the classroom

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Nadia Santoriello, Susanna Lee, Kristian Tuerke, Ranmeet Gill

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Nadia Santoriello, Susanna Lee, Kristian Tuerke, Ranmeet Gill

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1. We can obtain mainstream informations from

Printed media ie. books
Textbooks
Podcasts
Social Media
Radio
Community...Family and Friends/Educators and Students

2. This information comes from outside the classroom and so it is the responsibility of the educator to address them when they arise.

Students can bring biases obtained from the outside into the classroom. This also provides a learning opportunity for students and educators alike to address their own biases.

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Iqbal Wehliye, Sabrina Porretta, Marilu Potestio, and Julia Ciardulli

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Iqbal Wehliye, Sabrina Porretta, Marilu Potestio, and Julia Ciardulli

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- The way academic knowledge has shifted and knowledge is mainly transferred through social media. For instance, Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Google Classroom.

- Websites such as teacherspayteachers.com which has great online resources that teachers can use to share lesson plans and other information with one another.

- Others include: Books, radio, family,  friends, teachers, podcasts

- Students and teachers can find mainstream knowledge almost anywhere. It is hard to find out what is credible and what is not in this day in age. It is easy for both students and teachers to determine what is credible vs what is not.

- As educators, we can use these mainstream forms of media in our classroom and help break down barriers as we help students process academic knowledge.

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Group 4 (Matthew, Sara Maxwell, Alondra, Deanna B)

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Group 4 (Matthew, Sara Maxwell, Alondra, Deanna B)

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* Is relatable - could be used to engage students
* Adapts with time / Is time specific
* Keep lessons relevant?

* Is often biased - question what you're being told
*Can perpetuate harmful biases

* Influences social and gender norms and expectations (Style, behaviour, Etc)

*Social Media - major influence
* Eg: TV/movies portray inaccurate representations of high school/relationships/etc

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Group 10: Ridima W., Lecs Petel, Christina Giovannoni, Jael Yuzon

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Group 10: Ridima W., Lecs Petel, Christina Giovannoni, Jael Yuzon

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Transformative knowledge is rooted in the capacity to understand that our perspectives and viewpoints are not uniform, universal or neutral. Our thoughts, feelings and opinions are informed and shaped by various identities as well as socio-economic, historical, political and cultural contexts that surround us and many of us tend to internalize. In knowing that this is one of many factors that influence both educators and students, educators must be aware and dismantle existing biases and assumptions as it inevitably influences our pedagogy and practice. Not to mention, if we remain complicit in acknowledging our own biases and influences, we may intentionally or unintentionally limit our students and community from diversifying our resources and opportunities with them. Also, when we are able to confront our biases within ourselves and our students, we can better serve them in that we prioritize their lived experiences and can expand critical thinking with them. Critical thinking and transformative knowledge is learning to "unlearn".

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Stephanie E, Leah W, Sarah F, and Laura B

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Stephanie E, Leah W, Sarah F, and Laura B

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- In elementary school grades, students are taught to memorize and trust the information, rather than practicing critical thinking. This leads to the inability to relate the material to the real world.
- Causes students to become close-minded
- The pressure for teachers to follow the textbook can also lead them to be close minded
- We should be learning from each other through open discussion, rather than solely from a textbook

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Group 11 - Simona M, Veronica R, Tayler G, Carrie L

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Group 11 - Simona M, Veronica R, Tayler G, Carrie L

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Popular knowledge affects teachers and students in terms of beauty standards. Students use social media and they see and are exposed to unachievable perfected levels of beauty standards. Therefore it is the responsibility of the teacher to be aware of the norms and the media culture and discuss about it in the classroom to have students be involved and also learn about what is going on in the current society. We as teachers also experience what is popular culture of what is the standard of being a "good teacher". Culturally relevant materials help students and teachers.