Chicken Scratch on Kolker Kash

In a bulleted list, chicken scratch notes that you capture and post, or an informal paragraph, start to brainstorm your final project for this class.  How will you bring all the theory we are learning into practice?  How do you make this real in your school/classroom?  

Here's the scratch!

• Kolker Kash goes big, becoming a school-wide incentive system
• Realized in this course even more the value of authentic experiences that get kids to construct new meaning about how the world around them is ordered. This is most powerful and reliable experience-generator I know
• Students run it
• Teacher advisors for each class (9, 10, 11, 12) oversee it
• Elected student treasurers for each class are given banker access to run the bank
• Could live on without me
• Students begin to push the program on other teachers (who can say no to a cute kid excitedly giving you a stack of cash named after you to give out to kids and make your behavior management easier?)
• Admin would have to buy in, at least give some sort of blessing to us trying to do this, though not giving a directive necessarily
• Get local businesses to offer deals for when kids with their Bucks
• Bring in guest speakers to talk about starting a business, mortgages, etc
• Johnson: use this to launch discussions in the classroom about class, vote democratically to revise the Kolker Kash system (needs a new name: CF Cash? Warrior Bucks?) to be more equitable etc as ideas arise
• Delpit: teach kids how to succeed in a white man's world
• YIA: scaffold support for kids to do amazing things, really let them take the lead
• Problem we all live with: run social experiments? Leave out one class, have them be upset, reflect? No obvious opportunities here yet but could think about some more
• SCWAAMP: How do I use this to problematize, not just recreate, economic structures out there? Unsure. Democratic voting to reform the system? Student leaders get to redesign it? Is it totally color-blind? Is there a way to include race?
• Digital Kids: kids are NOT naturally fluent in all things tech, like...bank statements
• Seeing Queerly: idk if there's a way to make things like race, sexuality, etc more explicit here...but at least have the idea that we have a GSA; after school activities could have Bucks incentives in some way, to encourage kids to engage in their community. Could get points for volunteering, holding down a job, etc
• Finn: [financial] literacy with an attitude
• Midterm paper: got useful feedback about how this system could serve to reinforce problematic stuff, need to engineer a bit how to work in more positive directions. Either way kids learn useful lessons about how to manage money
• Sum: glad this gave me the idea and impetus. Key is figuring out more of a roadmap now of how to more explicitly address issues that align with financial issues in the real world, but in our simulation...