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Julie WakefieldI think the kids would get a kick out of some lesson on SPAM. I am wondering outloud if the culinary teacher (and classes) would be willing to do some SPAM cooking for us for taste tests. It is could be a fun cross-curricular activity.
So I am looking for some good videos and articles that are student friendly to create a lesson.
Video - Gordon Ramsey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZ59LQtWH8
SPAM in six different world regions- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEkTBqGf6zo
Julie WakefieldI guess the first part of this goes to the MSG controversy....I still don't understand. As I said last week, I honestly have clue what MSG is and if I have ever eaten it knowingly? Not sure what this says about the 'controversy' or just my lack of eating/cooking Asian food.
The scare based on one story from 1968 that created the Asian Restaurant Syndrome?? MSG causing cancer? Natural sensitivity to MSG?
I am reading and watching videos in an attempt to try to understand this.
More to come....
Julie WakefieldThank you for this great introduction to many of the cultural foods from that region that are also popular here. I hope, come this spring, to have a tea ceremony or at least a tea tasting in class! 🙂 So, I am definitely interested in looking more into the different types of and diffusion of tea, chopsticks, and rice. I think these are topics the students could really get interested in. I remember from having visited China, Japan and South Korea that the discussion of who has the best rice is real (as the kids would say!). There are very strong opinions! I look for to learning more.
Julie WakefieldGood Day!! My name is Julie Wakefield and I am in smoky northern Nevada. I am in my 25th year of teaching at McQueen High School. I always look forward to learning about new topics in depth and get ideas as to how I can use them in my classes. I teach AP Human Geography and World Regional Geography. I have never specifically implemented any lessons on food other than in passing...so I am looking forward to creating something!
Julie WakefieldI am not quite sure how to respond to all this information. Since I really don't have any questions, what did happen with all the great visualizes is that I was able to choose some and create some possible FRQ questions. FRQ - Free Response Question used in AP Human Geography. The questions will have either one or two stimuli so there is definitely a possibility of mix and matching the visualizes I clipped and a lot more questions to explore.
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There were no new surprising details but some tidbits and updates that will be helpful. The China maps from the first presentation are great and will be incorporated in my presentations.
I have a better understanding of the Hukou system. I was first introduced to this system in another NCTA course - Book Group for The Eternal Street of Happiness by Rob Schmitz (highly recommend). This is a collection of stories about migrants from the rural areas to the urban areas and the challenges they meet. One of the particular stories I remember is finding schools because of the lack of citizenship cards.
The One-Child Policy is always of interest to my students and they always ask lots of questions. The more case studies about individual stories and situations I find, it helps them understand the challenges to implementing the system and then the reasons behind dropping the system. I look for (and would love more) stories of people who are a 'One-Child' and even stories of those families who chose to have multiple children. Another NCTA course (I just love them!) I am taking now is reading a book called Choosing Daughters by Lihong Shi focuses on her PhD work in a village that fairly quickly evolved with the idea that an only child being a girl is on ok idea. We hear so many stories that girls were abandoned, high rates of female infantice, illegal abortions, revealing the sex of the fetus becoming illegal, moving to a more rural village to give birth so there is not documentation, etc. This village did experience some of that, but it does not seem as long or as drastic as it took other places to adopt the idea. The book also has some great commentary about how the policies were implemented at the village levels.
I look forward to learning more to update the information I already have and some new resources to use in class.
Julie WakefieldGood Day! I teach in Reno, NV - yr #24. I teach World Geography, Honors World Geography, and AP Human Geography. I am looking forward to learning more about contemporary China!
Julie WakefieldTuesday, October 20, 2020 4pm - - Webinar hosted by the University of Washington 'Where We Are At' series
An information packed webinar with lots of current information, as current as academics can get outside of China.
The professor spent time talking about how challenging it has been these last 7 - 8 months of getting accurate information from 'on the ground' in China as journalism, tourism and diplomatic relations have drastically been reduced and controlled.
A few highlights
- there is still high, strong pressure to conform to Party preference and ethnic Chinese (Han) culture even as China globalizes.
- there is available evidence of attacks of religion, crackdowns on corruption (yet also evidence of more corruption) in an attempt to control and limit freedoms
-the Chinese economy is the only world economy showing growth (there was a data point behind this comment, but I missed it). As the economy grows, China continues to give out loans, which is a typical response for them when their economy is strong.
- there are huge pushes for investiment in Chinese developed and manufactured computer chips, AI, miedical devices, agricultural machinery and much more - as China pushed forth with their Made in China 2025 campaign (which is not widely publicized worldwide at the moment but still strong in China)
- there was some talk about Hong Kong - many facts with focus on China's continuing attempt to control and exert influence over HK. There is a talk in a few weeks about Hong Kong.
- additional information about Taiwan and their relationship with China (which is decidely different than that of Hong Kong). There is a lot of support outside of Taiwan to throw more support towards Taiwan against China, but Taiwan seems to be a more complacent in their relationship than Hong Kong (not sure if that is the word I want - but the two relationships with China are different.)
Julie WakefieldIt is completely undestandable in the 1800's that Japan and China were looking to more isolationist policies of self-containment and self-support. European countries and the US were coming on strong (economically and militarily) to expand their empire looking for resources and markets - both of which they knew existed in China and Japan.
I would pose the question of advantages and disadvantges to the students of this type of policies in a brainstorming idea - I wold encourage them to think about the economic and cultural consequences of both sides.
Julie WakefieldOne of the areas I focus on when teaching about aging populations (both in East Asia and Europe) is the need for a tax paying labor force. This comes in the discussion of a dependency ratio - the young and elder cohorts dependent on the working class. Then we talk about population policies which are pronatalist and immigration policies to increase the work force now and in the future. It is important to also point out that this is distinctly a problem with highly developed countries.
Julie WakefieldDepending on if I am teaching World Geography (9th and 10th) or AP Human Geography (10th) - the introduction is different.
In the World Geography class, East Asia has it's own unit. The introduction to region is with physical geography of mainland and the islands focus on challenges to living in some extremes and examples of HEI. Later we get into the human geography topics of population, culture, history, economic development, globalization, popular culture and trends, etc.
In the AP class - East Asia can appear in every unit if I choose to use one of the countries for a case study. I try to emphasize different regions but some topics are clearly more applicable to East Asia. Some possible case studies include: population, migration, culture (religion, language), political geography (East China Sea), agriculture, urban geography and industrial and economic development. All of these are units within the AP Geography course and case studies from East Asia can easily fit in to each one.
Julie WakefieldHello, I am Julie Wakefield from Reno, NV. I teach high school World Geography and AP Human Geography. Most of my students are 9th and 10th graders. I am really looking for to learning from the course and other and finding new resources I can use in my classrrom.
Julie WakefieldAmazing read by a genuinely nice person! I was fortunate to attend a seminar at Stanford through SPICE (https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/)and he was a guest speaker one morning. Then I was fortunate to see him speak in Reno (where I live) later that year as a part of a literary community project. He allowed my students to have their pictures taken with him and he signed books for them! https://125.stanford.edu/adam-johnson-writer-of-uncommon-experience/
He also talked about one of his classes at Stanford in which the students write and illustrate graphic novels then they get published. So cool!
Julie Wakefieldhttps://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191010-south-koreas-population-paradox
https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/south-koreas-population-may-have-already-peaked/
https://www.csis.org/analysis/south-koreas-demographic-troubles
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Seoul-announces-new-measures-to-counter-population-decline-48032.html
This is a great website for some demographic data on countries https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/south-korea-population
Julie WakefieldI had to look up if Kim Jung-un has kids because I had no idea. He definitely controls the media on this one. The title of this article...that there are three possible heirs. https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-heirs-what-we-know-2017-12#most-sources-agree-that-kim-and-his-wife-have-had-three-children-since-their-secretive-marriage-in-2009-1
