Blog post 4

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PruRq94Klck

• Caillou Stands Against Racism | Caillou Cartoon
• A scenario, more entertaining and seems less educational than the other 2 videos but conveys a good message  

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ

• Systemic Racism Explained
• Good explanation outlining racism  

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNEKbVq_ou4

• How to Talk to Kids About Race 
• Talks about why informing children about race is so important, and suggest effective conversation approaches 

After exploring several youtube clips that represent kid-friendly explanations of racism, I decided on a 20-minute clip from Caillou Cartoon. My group plans to utilize technology learning for our Learning Design Blueprint and create a digital children’s book titled “Underneath the Umbrella”. We intend to educate students ranging from kindergarten to grade 2 on the importance of racism. To recognize Universal Design from the previous blog post, particularly the first pillar, multiple means of representation, which advises providing learners the option of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities to interact with the academic material. 

The Pressbooks media and student interaction template classifies Youtube videos in the category of learner-generated, implying the students are required to interpret and understand the clips’ meaning and purpose in relation to the course. Unlike other types of student interactions, YouTube videos are learner-material. Within our Blueprint lesson, we incorporate a portion of time for students to form small discussion groups, to share, elaborate, reflect, and express their thoughts and opinions of the lesson. Speaking and collaborating with peers helps students to improve or clarify any confusion the content addresses. In response to the video, an activity could be to answer the following questions in an audio/video recording, paper, or type, etc., 

1. Describe racism 
2. Attitudes about the issue
3. Propose an accommodation to reduce racism 
4. Provide an example of when you encountered racism
5. What did you learn from the video?

These questions are designed to encourage the learners to analyze the author’s messages, make personal connections, and provide the instructor with a representation of the level of the student’s understanding of the material. 

A potential barrier to showing Caillou’s Cartoon as a form of education addressing a serious topic involves students not recognizing the valuable lesson. Combining informative entertaining videos with education is effective to keep students engaged, however, tends to convey less in-depth and direct descriptions. To reduce this potential barrier, I followed up the Caillou Cartoon with 2 alternative videos that directly outline and inform students about racism.