lesson excerpt: project 1 testing step (modal aptness)

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0:01 Let’s look at this one. Okay, a look into why the social media trend of full-time van life and family blogging could be damaging to kids.

0:09 So again, shining a light of critical attention towards this. Um, parents commodifying. I gave the student that word, I don’t think they knew what that was.

0:20 Well, I’ve seen the look on their face and Like, So, when you take something and you commodify it, you make it, you make it sellable.

0:30 You make something profitable. So, they’re commodifying a lifestyle. They’re making money off of something. And they’re in turn impacting their children’s mental and emotional health.

0:41 So the student was really fascinated with the, you know, the fact that these, this van life stuff started and everything seemed great until they started seeing the posts from children of these families like, this is messed up.

0:52 And I’m having a really hard time with it. And I don’t want to do this. And the conflict between the parent and the child.

0:58 Right? So, this is an essay. It’s kind of taking, like, inspiration from the Rihanna piece, where it’s an op-ed and then there was the little social media post that we looked at that kind of did the same thing.

1:09 It worked pretty well. So, you see the images. This is just one section of the essay. This is a figure that they show these two, um, posts. 1:18 And then a little caption. And then they wrote the little paragraph. The concept of family vlogging has been around on social media and YouTube for years.

1:25 It’s been an ongoing trend without any sight of it going down in popularity. But in the last two years, as the newer platform TikTok’s grown, even as someone who never paid attention to these types of YouTubers or content creators before, I constantly see this new trend concept of van life.

1:41 Or full-time traveling family vloggers. That was the longest sentence. No, Seeing the van life videos at first glance, I remember thinking about how cool it must feel to constantly visit new places and being able to travel so frequently.

1:57 But, as the trend grew, I started to notice more families on TikTok completely selling their homes and placing families of 5 to even 10 into these small vans.

2:07 That’s insane. It’s giving clown car. So, so this again, one section, in all fairness to the student, they said, you know, they, this isn’t the very first paragraph.

2:19 This isn’t the first thing you see. So again, it’s just a snippet. But again, as an ex, as an expert, you’re all experts, title, purpose, what you see.

2:29 Does it seem to align? Is it going in the right direction? What kind of like things are we, as experts, but expert audiences, what, what are we thinking? 2:48 I think it can even be interesting, because I, I was interested in man life for a minute, but there’s a lot of younger people doing man life.

2:58 Like I’ve even seen people who are like 19. Yeah. Yeah, so it’s like maybe that could be a little bit more relatable.

3:07 And how it’s influencing other people too. I mean it A man with a bunch of, I mean like, if I had to spend, if I was just married No, but like I would.

3:28 I think it’s like falling off the bridge. I mean, can anyone see no man? I don’t know. That is good though.

3:40 As like an essay, that’s an, I would read the essay. I think the format was a good choice. It’s intriguing.

3:46 It’s an interesting topic for sure. I was like super excited because I’m like, oh yeah, like it’s super cool. But again, you know, in choosing topics, in gearing them towards particular audiences, there is something to be said again about, okay, we’re talking about kids, I’m not, you know, many of us

4:06 are not moms yet, maybe don’t have an intention of being a parent, whatever that is, how do you keep that person engaged?

4:13 Or how do you show applicability or relevance to that person? It’s interesting though. How is that a phenomenon that college students are faced with right now?

4:30 Yeah. I don’t know. You know, like, and I try to think of this different ways, and again, I said, you know, this, these many projects kind of take on this, this question.

4:40 Like, okay, how are we talking about kids in, to you, and making relevant for students that are just coming out of that phase, right?

4:47 Or maybe they didn’t have college students travel in RVs, and how has it changed since Mhm. You know, so like, maybe, too, would this be a, one of those, like, uhm, think-about-this things, like, down the road, making choices for families.

5:05 Maybe it’s not advanced for van life, but maybe it is the whole concept of commodifying something. You know, you get, like, uhm, what is it?

5:16 All the, you know, all the, those families with the kids that they, like, take them all day long. They run around and play with Oh, like vloggers?

5:24 Yeah, like, you know, but I’ve been trying to think of the names. There’s Ryan. Ryan is one of them, right?

5:29 And then there’s a girl. I don’t There’s a lot. You know what I’m They’re like multi-billionaires Plus their parents. Oh my goodness, she’s cute.

5:41 I don’t think the two-year-old is like, I got a great idea. Yeah. Or even though, it could be talked about how they’re filming their son in the hospital, right? 5:49 That’s crazy. Is that a hospital? No, I don’t think, I think that’s part of the Oh, Which also speaks volumes.