Response to Luke's Precis on Ethnography

I plan to observe students at the Los Oos High School in Rancho Cucamonga. During this observation, I plan to use the mode of ethnography that seems to me the most appropiate for the audience I will be observing, that is, the comprehensive oriented mode. As in my past field experience with the students at Los Osos, I will be doing a whole lot of documenting. For the most part, the teachers have identified me as a student from CSUSB, who is aspiring to become a teacher, and is visiting the classroom just to observe the students. The problem with being identified is that, as we mentioned in our classroom discussion, sometimes; when the students are aware that they are being observed, they may very well alter their behavior, substituting it for good or bad. Personally, as a participant in field experience at Los Osos twice before, I have found that some cultures are predictable. The teenage culture is one of those cultures. They seem to be all made from the same mold. Their behavior is consistent and typical. They love their ipods, their cell phones, their facebook, their text-messaging, etc.--they love technology. I think that it may be difficult to reach a precise conclusion on a culture ethnographically, when as a parent of that culture, you have been privy to it on a daily basis. Nonetheless, I will truthfully document what is presented to me in the classroom of this culture.