Group 7 Discussion

    1)  A man and his son are driving home from a game together. The father is exhausted from a long day at work and swerves off the road and gets into a car crash. The paramedics and police rush to the scene, both the son and father are critically injured and rushed in separate ambulances. They are taken to two different hospitals. The son is rushed into the operating room and the doctor who receives the boy cannot perform the surgery required to save his life. The nurse looks to the doctor and ask why? The doctor replies, “ this boy is my son”. Who is the doctor? According to the New York Times article there are many forms of sexism towards women in the scientific community. With the riddle being presented to many they all assume that it is the father who cannot operate on the boy, but to most people’s surprise, the mother is the doctor. Girls from a young age are not encouraged to be “good a math” or often times discourage to “ apply to MIT” as educators how can we start molding our young students to think outside the box of gender specific careers?

  

     2)   Nothing seems to be off topic now a days on television shows that target teens like Glee, Teen Mom, and 16 and pregnant.  It seems now a days a traditional sex education classroom is obsolete. Yet we are restricted on the material that may be covered in this class, so schools will have strict protocols that we as educators need to oblige by. In our groups we should discuss about how we can use the media to be our teaching tool and how we can revamp our old “traditional” sex education lesson plans. Students can see a birth easily on YouTube, or see pictures of STDs that were once used as scare tactics, what do we have left?