#stroms

Marlene Vasquez

October 11, 2021

Family and Community Treasures

EDCE 22102 - Fall 2021

                                              Blog II Reflection

             For my second blog post I have decided on posting my “My Ecological Map” assignment. This was a fun assignment for me because I decided to keep it very local to the places where I spend most of my time with and make the most memories in. As a class assignment me had to show in the map the places where we’ve been to and write a description on each place and how it can relate to a song and/or movie line. I think that by connecting the places to music and movies that I’ve enjoyed made the assignment even more amazing because now I have found myself quoting them whist I go to those locations. We also had to connect them to system theory which allowed me to rethink of how those locations connect me to other systems. Not to mention, how other systems can be affected by just one switch or change that can be caused by other systems. After this assignment I think of how music and movies can relate to the places that I’ve been and how those things are systems in it of itself. I now think of/ wonder if others think the same way that I do. Weather they ask themselves how the systems they are in may cause an effect on other systems. Which leads me to the class dissection on the September 2, 2021. We disused the storm that happened in New York. 

The way the subways got affected and places in the stress where floated which affected the bus. The system of transportation was affected by the storm. Which them affected the way people would get to work or hospitals or reach family members; thus, causing an affect to other systems. I now wonder about the many ways one system failure can cause an effect on others. The way of thinking is one thing that I have started to change after this assignment. As well as trying to find other ways that I can solve the problems when something like “a storm” happens again; that way it won’t affect my day-to-day life. In other words, not only dependent on one solution but instead having options. This way I could feel better prepared in the future. According to the article “The Experimental Ecology of Education” by Urie Bronfenbrenner states, “While the Thesis that most behavior in social situations is reciprocal is generally accepted in principle, it is often disregarded in practice” (Bronfenbrenner, pp 9). What I understood from this passage is that even though we may think we have thing in order we would still be able to have disruptions that can occur, thus, affecting the systems we are in. Which is something that was discussed in the class on the day after the New York City storm.

Questions:

·       Have you thought of system theory?

·       IF so, how to you find it to be relatable to you?

·       What might be three Locations in your hometown that you’ve been to?

·       Can you come up with a song line that can describe or connect to each place?

·       Where you affected by the storm that happened in New York City that happened on September 1, 2021?

·       If you could think of three different types of food you enjoy, would they all be in one country/city, or would it be around the world?

·       If so, would you be interested in creating a map to show it?

                                                Citation 

Urie Bronfenbrenner. (July 16, 2014). The Experimental Ecology of Education.

I brought you daffodils in a pretty string

A Storm Passing Northwest of Anadarko is one of four paintings in Wilson Hurley's Visions of the Land: The Centennial Suite that represents the four quadrants of Oklahoma's diverse landscape. The paintings were an official Oklahoma Centennial Project dedicated in 2002. The commission was directed by the Oklahoma Arts Council. Philanthropist Roger M. Dolese made The Centennial Suite possible. First of all, I did not set up my easel and paint this storm in front of me. I left that daring deed to the folks at O.U. and Channel 9 Television of Oklahoma City. I did set up in stormy skies and light rain south of Gracemont and just north of the bridge crossing Sugar Creek and went head to head with that angus bull who never took his eyes from me the whole time. As for the cloud, dropping and beginning to turn, and the wild force latent in it, perhaps it is that part that created the phrase 'terrible beauty' which describes Oklahoma so well. - Wilson Hurley