Monday, August 31, 2009

How we learn 3344

Everyone has their own style of learning and way of reminding themselves of what they learned. My style of learning of like music. Just like musical notes and scales, short quarter notes can represent what was learned in infantcy, sixteenth notes are even shorter and quicker notes that represent memories or skills that are not so great, and eighth notes are longer and extended notes that represent skills that a person specializes in such as mechanics, computers, history, etc. The scales of music could also represent a timeline of learning, so if you are an infant you would start from the bottom of the scale and move up as you grow older. Or the scales could represent the level of knowledge in a particular skill, so if you don't know much about math, for example, then math will be lower on the scales. The higher scales would be the skills that are your specialty.
The notes and scales can be connected with previous notes and scales and some of the notes and scales can be repeated so if you need to remember something you can sort through the memories.
Of course to get children or even adults for that matter to learn anything the teacher needs to find a way to motivate the students to learn one way or another. For this there are two known types of motivation: Intrinsic and Extrinsic. Intrinsic is an internal, gut feeling, or instinct. It's a drive that a person has when they have a goal to accomplish and that person does if for themselves only, but they still like to get compliments and know that someone else cares. Extrinsic is an external source and reward system that results when a task is completed that student gets a reward of some sort. Many behavior therapist believe and rely on this theory to help improve on a child's self esteem.
Multiple Intelligence was thought up by a man named Howard Gardner where it helps a teacher to discover how their students learn best.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

1st assignment

Create blog site complete