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Overall I found this project very interesting!

I liked how you could interact with other students and share ideas to enhance learning. I also liked how you did a bit a week so it was less overwhelming than a big assessment.

I dislike however that it is a huge part of our grade and I am still unsure how well I will actually do. I personally think I have met the requirements of the rubic but i'm so worried my grade will be awful because it isn't what was actually expected. I would've liked a mid-semster review of the tumblr just to know I am on the right track.

Overall i enjoyed it however, it is definitely a good way of learning in an extramural class and it encourages you to keep up to date with the class work.

Ending on a happy note!! This song is so inspiring! She pretty much says 'I don't care what you think about me, i'm telling you my secrets, i'm not hiding them anymore, and SO WHAT'! Be proud of who you are and be who YOU want to be!!!

Week 12: ADHD is just one of the disabilities that requires special attention in relation to how they learn in the classroom. It is important to give children and adolescents who have this disorder high opportunities for physical activity with a teacher constantly monitoring their environment. School have a huge part in adjusting to how different people learn in order to optimise the students education.

Week 12: This source looks at how peer mentoring may influence students from low socioeconomic status households and school to attend university.

Week 12: I personally learn best this way. This website gives further detail into the constructivist approach to learning.

Make sure you don't start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don't value you. Know your worth, even if they don't.

Thema Davis

Week 11: Dating Violence. Pretty much explains itself. Something I think all adolescents need to consider when in a relationship, especially when establishing that their relationship might be a violent one (either physically or mentally and emotionally).

Week 11: 90% of people have dated by age 16! Say what! I found this so shocking! While I understand the want for love and companionship, I feel like this doesn't need to be attained through romance by age 16! I was quite happy with my friends at age 16, I had crushes on boys but I didn't see a serious future with any of them. My own personal opinion is that you date someone with the intention of carrying out a serious relationship with them, I am not bagging on high school sweethearts but I doubt all 90% of those couples stayed together. I think there is so much pressure for adolescence to date because 'everyone else is doing it'. I waited until I felt mature enough to have a proper relationship and I think it shouldn't be a scandal to do this. Last year I was a leader at my high school and I had a 13 year old boy ask me (very awkwardly) if it was wrong to be a virgin. His exact words. I was so speechless, 13 years old and already feeling the pressure of loosing his virginity, i think this is an extreme case, but none the less and example of an adolescent at high school right here in Palmerston North! I really feel think we need to help reshape the norms of dating amongst adolescents so its not seen as 'wrong' to not date or have been in a relationship by age 16.

Week 11: An innocently cute picture with such a sad reality. I was so shocked to read that nearly 20 percent of adolescents are rejected form their friend group- causing a lot of them to drop out of school. My sister has experienced rejection continuously and it never fails to shock me how excluding teenage girls can be. The school councillor told her that she wasn't being bullied. While it is not mainstream bullying I feel very strongly about rejection and exclusion and I definitely think people need to have their eyes opened to the detrimental effects of it.

Week 10: An interesting study done on whether working mothers effect their child development in different ways than stay at home mothers. it was found that neither option affected the child and it was the families choice as to what method they thought would work best for them. Remember to log in via Massey to actually view the article!

Week 10: I quite like how this image gives more ways to describe the different parenting styles, i remember this topic from the Human Development course and I think this image is really helpful in giving a big overview of the parenting styles. This image could actually be used in counseling session with adolescents, they could be asked to rate how their parents treat them on an image like this one to give the councillor/ psychologist an idea of their situation at home.

Week 10: This was the first image that came up when I typed 'family' into google images. Although the shape of the second adult depicts a woman, I like how this photo could be viewed as two men with their three children- due to the people being silhouettes. While gay marriage is still frowned upon by many, I think it is becoming more widely accepted. I think it would so interesting to do research on how children develop depending on whether they were raised by a man and a woman, two men, or two women. While I don't think any of these would have negative affects on the children, I definitely think the children raised in the single sex parent families may have different morals and overall prejudices.

Week 9: This can relate to sexuality but i think it shows an emphasis on moral education- character development in particular, which teaches moral behavior and avoidance of harming behaviour to others. This makes you question the boys morals. He knows sexual abuse is wrong as you see from him standing behind the mirror yet he doesn't see this when he is 'in the moment'. Why is this? Is this related to his morals?- or lack of moral for that matter.

Week 9: He is a bit repetitive but this video helps to demonstrate how parents and family values have and affect on what be believe our morals to be. This made me question my own morals and why I have these morals.

adolescents-of-today

Divorce. What an ugly word. This brings back so many feelings and emotions. Growing up in a broken home, actually more than one broken home where my mum has been married several times as well as my dad. It is a horrible act that two people can put their children through but I guess divorce is better than living in an unhappy household.

Being moved across the world, separated from my entire family especially my dad has not been easy for me. I am lucky enough to go back quiet often to see him but that still does not make it any easy. I hope that one day when I get married I do not get a divorce and can grow up with a loving family as cliche as that sounds.

hayleymarieb

Such an awful thing for children to experience, but unfortunately an experience that is becoming more and more normal.

krugernicole

Never confuse morality for normality

Sometimes in some cultures and communities they might see something as being morally right but in a different culture in might be seen to not be morally right at all.

hayleymarieb

This is so accurate for how social norms affects peoples perceptions of morality.

krugernicole

This is a very powerful message and just yet again states that Moral development is such an important part of the development of a teen. It influences their decision making reasoning skills.

larasheridan-ad

Seeing this and reading the message with it really got me thinking… quite often we are obedient to keep others happy.. but really, shouldn’t we be showing morality?

hayleymarieb

I like how this message is being said by a women who appears to be young herself.

larasheridan-ad

Every single time I see this image it not only sickens me but also saddens me..

This relates so much to the saying “think before you speak”. Especially at adolescent age group, majority of girls are very self-conscious about their size and how puberty is affecting them. Every little comment made can not only affect them emotionally but also physically.

Bulimia and anorexia are two major issues in the adolescent age group which are mental diseases usually begun by rude remarks which are not fair.

bazel4

This saddens me, knowing that this kind of pressure is on our children, boys and girls alike. When my daughter was year 7 there was a boy, hitting puberty, who stopped swimming because he put on weight and was consistently teased and bullied for this. When he was made to swim he would wear t-shirts. The thing is, he was earlier than the other boys (in reaching puberty) and they all went through this stage and not once did this child tease or bully the other kids.

hayleymarieb

Such a sad image, sadly shows how a lot of adolescents probably feel about their bodies.

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