These are the class preparation sheets for my EDP 370: Applied Child Development Course. This course is taught as a 'hacked' course. Lectures are prerecorded for students to listen to at home, we complete activities in-class. The culminating project is the Children's Thinking Project (adapted from Penelope Oldfather & West, 1999). Thus, we integrated a series of interviews from American Public Media: Dick Gordon's The Story radio program into the pedagogy for students to develop their interviewing skills.

1. EDP 370: Applied Child Development
How can I prepare for class on January 28th?
Tasks for Week of 1/21: Understanding the Impact of Macro-Context on Biological
Development
 Task 1: Enter your field site (StepUp, PreEminent, YLearning)
o Read: “Making the Most of One Session”
o Use the Conferlite APP to make field notes on your observation of
CONTEXT & CULTURE at your field site
 Listen Lecture on Macro-Systems: Poverty (Bronfenbrenner’s Theory; in iBook /
Dropbox)
 Prepare for Jigsaw: “Context on Biology”
o All Read: Biological Beginnings (Chapter in Textbook)
o Group 1 (0-K): Read about “Brain Development”
o Group 2 (1-4th): Read about Physical Development
o Group 3 (5th +): Read about Physical Well-Being
o Complete Preparation Activities (in iBook): Be prepared to share your
slide with your group
I am in Group ____________
 Read the Mia! Email (posted on MOODLE / Dropbox).
o What are the mom’s concerns?
o What can you tell about this mom’s social class from the e-mail?
o Drawing from our understanding of context/culture, what might be the
obstacles for poor children receiving services for developmental delays?
[i.e. consider Economic, Cultural, Social (Lareau), and Cognitive (Nisbett)]
 Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: “The
Layoff - A Child’s Perspective” (In Dropbox)
“More often than not, when we try to see how the great recession is affecting people, we talk to the
adults who are looking for work. Today, we talk to a child. Nine-year old Alison Spiller wrote Dick
Gordon a letter after listening to an episode of the program. She wrote, "I hope my experiences will
help your listeners with children." Turns out, Alison's father was unemployed for more than a year
before he found a new job and that meant big changes to Alison's lifestyle. Alison Spiller and her
mother Rachael Clark join Dick Gordon to talk about their family's experience after unemployment.
OR
 Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: “Death Valley Bus Stop” (In Dropbox)
“Dick speaks with Deb Watterson who lives in a Timbisha Shoshone community in California that may
lose bus service for school children. She talks about not wanting to leave her community and not
being able to homeschool her daughter.”