Fair vs. Unfair

It was really helpful to have the script of this discussion as opposed to a summary because even when you think you have an idea of how the lesson goes, you still don’t get a real idea until you look at what the students are really saying. I noticed this as well when I wrote my own script. This could happen at parts when you thought it was going really well and you realize that students were not understanding how you thought they were or the opposite where you might have thought the discussion was not going well when in reality students were asking great questions. This also gives the reader a great opportunity to see into the heads of the students and how they are thinking. If there is a misunderstanding then you can see exactly what the student was thinking. At the beginning with the discussion of what is fair or not it was so interesting to see all of the different definitions of what fair meant. If it was just written that students came up with different definitions for the fair, then we would not be able to see the individuality of the answers. For example here is a definition from one student “ It means that there are no tricks to it. Like those amusement park games. You never win those ‘cause there are hidden tricks to them that you can’t see,” and another response “ A fair game is when there is no trick to it. You know all the rules and there are no secrets to it.” (page 259). These are two different definitions of the word fair. From these definitions you also got to see how the other students interpreted them and were able to say them in there own words. I think reading a script is a great way to see into the discussion instead of just brushing the top.