What should be taught?

 The video from "Get Lit" was amazing and eye-opening to watch. I have seen a few of their videos and they are all amazing. I think they pointed out a lot of good examples of ways teachers teach things to students without even realizing it. I think this was a good reminder that learning is not always lecturing. I have seen kids pick up on things no one has spoken about verbally. One of the things this reminds me of is a topic I am talking about in my ECE class. We were talking about gender stereotypes and how it only takes them seeing the mom doing the same characteristics or actions over and over for them to pick up on it. I loved learning the three categories of the curriculum.  I think the category I was most familiar with was the explicit curriculum because it is the most visible one. although I have seen the explicit one in school I think social media is highlighting right now is the book ban in the null category. This is making so many people mad because they believe children should be able to read about this. lots of people believe this because of the representation. I think it is important for kids to have this and teachers should be more willing to teach the content that is trying to be banned. There is a reason why books are being banned and it does not help the students it is hurting them in the long run.

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  1. Hi Sadie! I like how you talk about implicit curriculum in your post. I had not realized until this module, just how many instances there are where children are learning different things that they are not directly being taught. It makes me realize how important it is for us to be conscious of how we are acting around our future students so that we do not convey any stereotypes we may not mean to. I like how you mentioned a child may pick up on gender stereotypes just from watching a parent perform a certain action repeatedly in their lives. I completely agree with this. It is pretty crazy how many lessons have come together to shape who we are as people that we are not even aware of having learned.

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