One aspect of learning in social studies in New Zealand, is students carrying out inquiries that include looking at people's values. A relevant topic for this is boy racers- young men in cars who like to race and do burnouts in the cities on Friday and Saturday nights. In the past we have got students to ascertain the different values by reading newspaper articles. Today, the boy racers themselves are developing classroom resources through Youtube. Watching the attached video students should be able to clearly identify boyracer values from a boyracer source.
A bit of a dilemma may be that some of the students may become boyracers as a result of this!!!
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After our experiences driving an ex boy racer rental from Invercargill to Bluff I was inspired to run a workshop exploring boy racer culture - I encouraged participants to plan learning experiences aligned to SOLO Taxonomy - try conversation 3 and using the HOT planning template on our wiki. Would have even better with YouTube clips.
The extended abstract meta understanding we came to (without the advantage of YouTube) was that the values of boy racer learning community culture are closely aligned to those valorised in the foreward of the MoE's E learning action plan 2006
"For New Zealand, the development of a prosperous and confident knowledge society means the development of new skills and knowledge. It will require a culture of continual inquiry, innovation and improvemnt, risk taking and entrepreneurship." Steve Maharey Minister of Education
Excellent conclusion! What I like about this topic is that it looks beyond boy racers are bad...
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