Our group has completed our planned fun night over a month ago at Madison Elementary on October 10th which took place from 6:30 till 8:00. We all participated in different activities during the fun night with the diverse groups of children present. We interacted with these children by participating in the many activities that we had planned.

Since our project we feel that we are better able to understand why kids act they way they do. Since our interaction with children and their parents at Madison Elementary we find through watching other kids we can get some sort of grasp on how they might have been raised. We are better able to estimate the upbringing of children from viewing their interactions with other kids and their parents.

If parents aren’t there to reach to their children and do activities with them and just allow them to watch TV all the time then they will model themselves after the media they have been exposed to. Mass media affects children in many ways. The word mass implies a large number of recipients of the same message and part of mass media is advertising, marketing and entertainment. Children are affected so greatly by mass media because of the visual and colorful aspects they use to entice the younger population. From our own experiences watching children’s shows and what is aimed at children since we have been young we’ve noticed a drastic change in the way media is aimed and portrayed for children. Even in the past ten or so years the visuals and colors have been much more intense and studies have been done to see what attracts children. Mass media has even gone as far as promoting adult products to children just so kids will beg their parents for the product.

Kids now days are also becoming more technologically savvy at a younger age. As a group we reminisced about the fourth grade days when everyone asked each other if they had a computer at home, now fourth graders don’t even go to school without their cell phones. The use of different media at a younger age by children will consequently effect how children view interpersonal communication in the long run.

In conclusion our overall experience at Madison Elementary has incorporated many ethical concepts and theories throughout this term. It was a fun, interesting and valuable experience interacting with these children and learning a little bit more about how upbringing effect s overall perspective and communicative relationship with others.

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Group Blog 3

Our group has just completed our planned fun night at Madison Elementary on October 10th which took place from 6:30 till 8:00. We all participated in different activities during the fun night with the diverse groups of children present. We interacted with these children by participating in the many activities that we had planned.

Many of us feel that parental influence on the child determines many of the child’s behavior choices in various situations. For example, there was one child with curly hair and freckles that agitated many of the group members by being disrespectful of our authority. Towards the end of the night we saw the child’s mother scolding him in such a way that was disrespectful to the child and also showed her immaturity as a parent. It was evident that the actions portrayed by the mother were directly demonstrated through her son’s behavior. We feel this is a large contributor of child diversity. There were children with the opposite actions that were directly influenced by their parent’s actions as well. Their parents were calm, caring and respectful so in return the child acted in a respectful way towards us and other children.

Some ideas that we have discussed since the last blog have included the ethics of care as described in our book as stressing relationships , nurturing, and the actual human circumstance in which people find themselves. We feel this applies to our project because we can see the different ways that parents interact with their children. The way the parents care for their child effects the child’s view towards relationships with other adults, authority figures, and close peers. This is based off of the parents we saw interact with their children at family fun night.

The second term we have used to analyze our experience at the Madison fun night was Dialogical Ethics. Dialogical ethics, is defined in our book as a system in which ethics can be judged by the attitudes and behaviors demonstrated by each participant in a communication transaction. For instance; we used our previous experience dealing with children and used that in order to prepare the activities and assignments. Our previous experience helped us to create ethical ways of dealing with children of diverse backgrounds.

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http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/ethics/virtthry.htm

(We feel that our picture is applicable to our blog in that it shows children of different cultures interacting with one another in a positive way.)

Group Blog 2

-So far our group has compiled a list of activities we would like to show and interact with the kids at Madison Elementary. We have also discussed the materials we will need including the following.
Fishing Game
Nerf (if someone can get a hold of Dan Glenn)
Sucker Tree
Doughnut Hang
Bozo Game
Crafts (bracelets, necklaces)
Supplies we would need: fishing poles, clothes pins, cupcakes, stickers, buckets (for BOZO) ping pong balls, String

The relationship between communication ethics and diversity has changed because we are nearing the date of the Madison fun night and we are realizing that we need to adjust our activities according to the diverse needs/wants of the children. For example we need to have enough people present to accommodate the children’s needs through each activity.

The approaches we have learned thus far in class relating to diversity have influenced us by knowing that we should respect and appreciate others. Since we are sharing responsibilities with another group we have been able to split the duties with out conflict creating a workable relationship between groups and this will correlate how we will be able to interact with other groups like the children. Ultimately the end consequence will hopefully be a fun night at Madison elementary.

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Group Blog 1

Our group has decided to work with Madison Elementary School on the student and family fun night. The event will take place October 10th at 6:30p.m at Madison Elementary in Winona, MN. Children from pre-school level up to elementary age and there families will be at this event. The reason we chose this event was because we were interested in participating in events and the diversity that takes place when interacting with young children and adults.

Our project relates to communication ethics and diversity by taking into consideration the diverse cultural, ethnic, and various other diversity factors when planning specific activities.

Assumptions about moral character differ across cultures because of different influences such as parental and geographical location. Communication ethics for us can be defined essentially as treating individuals as you would like to be treated and respecting all individuals with their views because after all, everyone is diverse.

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