First Class - Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Blog for all students so they can review what went on in class each week.
Beware! The blog when editing accepts formatting but ultimately when posted does not do well with bullets and sub-bullets USE NUMBERS INSTEAD...

First half of class

I. Discovered 5 similarities about a partner

1. attempted to find one similarity with two groups (4 people)

II. Short Term Memory has capacity for 7 +/- 2 bits of info

1. Learned techniques for aiding short term memory through an exercise
2. if something random associated with someones first name difficult to remember
3. if tag an animal name beginning with same letter or some other pre-known aspect it is easier to remember. Linking to a preknown memory is associating
4. attempted with second half of group of linking first letter of name to first letter of a fruit and it was much easier to remember

III. Reviewed what was due for next class with timeline of 1920s through the 2000s . A paper was handed out for this assignment. "A Brief History of Instructional Development" by Sharon A. Shrock published in 1991

1. timeline should show the education techniques/discoveries/theories AND
2. your own timeline to parallel this to help you and other people better associate it with the above timeline

1. cartoon was shown
1. family members at different times shown
2. timeline for games/gaming shown
1. you need to add your ideas for new learning developments in the 1990s and 2000s
1. 1990s www, email...
2. 2000s blogs, wikis, social networking...
   

Second half of class.

What is your definition for learning...
Acquisition of

1. new skills
2. new knowledge
3. new behavior
4. discovery

Reviewed Powerpoint Introduction Course

Education is not filling of pail but lighting of a fire

Dales Cone of Experience
10% Reading (only 10% effective w/ remembering)
20% Hearing
50% Viewing images watching videos
70% Attending exhibits or watching demonstrations
90% Engagement teaching skill Participate

Is knowledge?...

1. received - behaviorism
   
2. acquired - cognitism
   
3. generated/constructed - constructivism

A person needs to use first two to work with third.

Class is like puzzle solving.

1. Handed out a test to half the group with a Crytoquips and told them for several minutes to perform it individually.
2. Other half was told to work in groups to solve the Cryogram.
3. The individuals half were then asked to work in groups
4. The individuals groups solved it first

Moral of story: READ AHEAD OF CLASS DIGEST INDIVIDUALLY so we can better learn and discuss in class.