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‍Discuss your group activity here.
===‍ __** Each participant must use a different text colour to identify themselves. **__===

Katie=pink Miatta=black Asheley=purple Teagan=blue
=== Hello this is Katie :-) I think that we had some good ideas this afternoon. I look forward to exploring it more. I will let you know what readings I do over the next few days. ===

===Hi all - this is Miatta checking out our wikispace and choosing black font. ===

=== Hello again everyone, I just found a course resource that I think would be interesting for us to read. It is number 19 for Challenges in the CRO and is called Reconceptionalising the early childhood curriculum. There are four chapters so it could be good if we each read one if you are interested and then we share what we have read? I am going to read chapter two and Miatta is going to read three. This is the link if you are interested if I can mannage to insert it: Hello click on me. Yay I just added a link too :-) ===

=== Hello girls, Asheley here....trialling the wiki space. So far so good :o) Great chat yesterday, I feel asthough we will come up with a great display with all the fun ideas. Catchy and creative. I will check out the chapters that you have suggested, have yet to go over any on moodle, woops. Be in touch! :o) 4/11/11 ===

hey ladies, its teagan here. learning my way around wikis spaces, looks like it will be helpful :) i checked out the link katie, and ill do chapter four :) it was great getting some ideas down and having our discussion thursday. I took down some notes, so ill pop them up for you. see you all soon 7/11/2011

ideas: global differences rights beliefs, religions stereo types cultures ^we you can and can't do

installation: A variety of tools, recourses to communicate our idea/message variety will help all types of learners understand

recourse: music touch, feel (play do) recordings images movie (BBQ area)

Well done ladies for getting a good start on your planning. It's a good idea to throw some ideas around. Kathy 7/11/11

I was thinking that we could summarise the readings in a table here so that we have them when we need references. Kinderculture and popular culture ( I think this was a chapter in an edited book, it is from the CRO's ) || This reading discussed magazines aimed at children. some interesting points were  ||   ||  ||
 * **The reading to support understanding.**
 * (title, Author, or link)** || **The key concept or idea taken from the reading.** || **Questions, ideas, thoughts prompted by the reading.** ||
 * BLock, Alan A. Reading Children's magazines -
 * the magazines are written by adults ( for the most part) and selected for children by adults
 * Their purpose is commercial - to make money
 * aimed at a certain sector of society, middle class, educated.
 * Discussed the idea of "structured play" ( an oxymoron??)
 * The auther asked, are corporations purchasing our children?
 * raised ideas surrounding the need for critical consumption of media
 * what narratives are not voiced in children's magazines?
 * the image generated of children/childhood is one which can generate profit. || * the question of whose voices are not present was interesting and linked somewhat to the sector of society that these magazines are aimed at perhaps?
 * Critical literacy and it's importance in today's world
 * that big corporations and their involvement in childhood need to be critically examined. ||
 * 

Great Miatta, I will add my thoughts in there soon, I am currently reading a really interesting one about the social context of the early childhood curriculum.

Thanks for taking down those notes Teagan, we expanded on those today and thought of some new ideas.

Miatta and I had a quick impromptu meet at uni this morning and though that it would be a good idea to break dwon the criteria and brainstorm ideas for each topic that we liked to see whcih would be the best direction to take. The top five were: -A sustainable world for children -The techno child -Children brands and buying power -Children's spaces - adult surveillance andanxiety. -Refugees children: multiculturalism when it suits.

We basically tried to brainstorm images of the child, teacher, and curriculum desision making processes in relation to each topic and came up with some good ideas (i hope)! We even have a couple of ideas for our actual installation/presentation. Does everyone like these topics? Any other suggestions? They were all quite good we just wanted to narrow them down!

Katie 8/11/11

We will do more on the different images of the child in tomorrow lecture that may give you some different options. Kathy 9/11/11 I have just recovered this page information from the history tab at the top of the page. I found what appears to be the most recent full page and managed to copy and paste it back here. I took the weekend to myself to celebrate my birthday but I have been thinking about our chosen topic. I am thinking along the lines of the idea of helicopter parenting and free range children - a quick google may explain these ideas, or I will be back later with more information. Not sure how I see this relating to the educational context so much. I also had a bit of a look for images. I will share with you guys at our group meeting on Tuesday morning too.- I think I lost a bit of text out of our table, sorry Katie, I think it was a reading you might have done by Malaguzzi? Miatta 14/11/11

Happy Birthday Miatta. :-) Good use of the retreival chart for your readings, ladies. Miatta - your idea about the free range children and helicopter parenting sound interesting and I think would be a different approach to other groups. I know that you have still not worked it through and there may be other group ideas but perhaps give this more thought.  Kathy 14/11/11

Hey girls, Yes I agree Miatta about the whole idea of free range children, I have that great article on the database titled 'free-range children'. Miatta and I were talking and we thought that we could use this idea to base our installation on. We were thinking along the lines of free-range vs caged children? 21/11/11

Hey Teagan, can you please just bring the balloons tomorrow as well as any newspaper that you may have, as well as some glue if you have it. I will write this on our group facebook page also in case you check that first! :-) Katie 22/11/11 22/11/11 - great meeting today. Just noting here that Asheley has had trouble with the wiki and therefore we have not found this as useful perhaps as it would otherwise have been. It hasn't been a big deal as we have all been able to meet up in person and the rationale is coming along well.  23/11/11 linkety link . Now that I have made sure we are all ok with it, I've added the link in here for our facebook group. Using facebook as a platform is working well for us as we have been able to use the doc function in groups to share our rationale work together and we all have access to facebook.


 * What was Ashley's problem with accessing the wiki? Is there something that I can do to fix the problem? **
 * Your planning looks as though you have been communicating well. It's good that you have also formed a facebook page to communicate. I assume that since you have supplied the link that I am allowed to look at it???? I'm guessing that you have deleted any bad comments?? :-) **
 * Kathy 25/11/11 **