8310 Dis 2 week 6

Colleagues Response

Respond to one of your colleagues’ posts and explain how your colleague’s codes are similar or different than yours.

Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.

Tanya Nordhaus

I coded Isaac's Scholar of Change video this way because it seems a natural way to divide the two topics of the video. Isaac stressed his ability to be a scholar of change, so this seemed like a natural code. The way he is affecting change is by way of teaching the viewers that special needs children have needs, too, like the need to be treated like normal children.

I chose Benjamin Isaac’s Scholar of Change video (2016). Isaac is a doctoral student studying special education. He created an educational cartoon for children that features three child actors as cartoon bugs. The first bug, Skeeter, is voiced by two children with autism. The second bug, Buzz, is voiced by his son, who has ADHD. The third bug, Gigi, is voiced by his daughter, who has cerebral palsy. The idea behind the video is to show children that children with special needs are normal.

          I uncovered two significant codes. I am calling the first one “special needs children’s needs.” The three quotes fitting for this code are:

1. Students with special learning needs who feel good about themselves perform better academically than those with low self-concept.

2. Show children with special needs in a very normal light.”⁸

3. The children will merely be who they are.

            The second code is “positive social change through education,” which is a quote from the transcript that I would include under this code. Other fitting quotes would be:

I am attempting to effect social change with the help of a few very special friends of mine.

The education I am receiving from Walden University will serve to provide research-based teaching strategies and information about students with special learning needs that will be incorporated into the show’s production and shared with the viewers.

I intend to leverage the power of teaching in technology.

It is my hope that the characters will serve to inspire, influence, and impact all children with special needs.

It is my goal to show the world that students with special needs are just that, special, blessed with differences that force them to interact with the world differently because they view it from a different perspective.

4. The potential to educate the world about the true nature of children with special needs.

           Whereas I found the coding to be quite obvious in the Topper Scholar of Change video, I found Isaac’s video to be a bit more challenging.

References

Isaac, B. (2016). Scholars of Change – Benjamin Isaac. [video file]