Chapter eight looks at how blending younger and older generations enhances each other’s abilities. Either generation can become the student or the teacher, because so much has changed that either generation can give knowledge of how they learned (Beynon & Alfano pg121). Chapter eight includes two case studies that deal with the blending of the older and younger generations. The first case study deals with a boys and men’s choir. The Amabile Boys and Men’s Choirs case study provided that the…
Human intelligence is defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Gardner had a different idea of what being intelligent actually meant. In fact, he states that there are multiple types of intelligence that one can have. His works shows that children are not at the same stage intelligence wise, which challenged the work of Piaget. Gardner used his work to show that educators should integrate educational theories, teaching strategies, and other pedagogic tools in meaningful…
The fundamental roles of social interaction is the theme stressed in Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development as the whole comunity has a big part to do in a child's development unlike Piaget who believes that a childs develpment is ahead of their social learning. The zone of proxmial development is the conttrast with what an individual learner can and cannot do with or without assistances, an example could be a university student who understand course material being studied in lectures and…
“Does anyone know the difference? I’m pretty sure everyone has judged a book by its cover before!”. We all know that neat people are the ones that do not care about process, They like to see results. However, sloppy people are disorganized, but they tend to put more effort into whatever it is that they are doing. First of all, sloppy people have patience for everything, whether it’s at home, at school or at work.When they have a lot of homework that they need to have done, they will always have…
new book, “Smarter,” he embraces scientists’ assertions that cognitive training can increase working memory — the mental holding space in which we manipulate and combine facts and ideas — and even fluid intelligence, the all-purpose problem-solving capacity that is partner to crystallized intelligence, or knowledge stored in memory.…
Many people believe that an intelligent person are more likely going to life a happy life, but this movies shows otherwise. It really shows how that even intelligent people don’t always have it easy in life. The main character, Will, is portrayed as a genius but lives in a poverish like life style. Rather than use his talents to the best of his ability he would often hang out with friends. They would typically would do delinquent (not juvenile delinquent) like activities and get themselves in…
As Lao Tzu said, “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.” In “Flowers for Algernon,” Charlie Gordon is the subject of an experiment to correct his mind. Charlie is the ideal choice for this experiment, because his progress can be easily tracked through his writing, and his character traits make him easy to work with. Before Charlie’s neurosurgical operation, the quality of his written progress reports was poor. His spelling and grammar was horrible, and most…
mental ability. This story takes place in the 1960s, and during this time period, people used different ways to measure intelligence. Charlie faces the decision to artificially increase his intelligence by having a surgery performed on him. Intelligence is not worth it when your happiness is at risk. Charlie Gordon should not have had the surgery to artificially increase his intelligence. According to the text, “Before, they laughed at me and despised me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they…
Francis Willard Elementary School is located in a Urban city called Arkansas City, Kansas which is located about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma border and 45 minutes away from the big town Wichita Kansas. The population in this town is approximately 12,00- 12,500 . This city is in between low income and middle income families the average income is about 35,000 whereas the state as Kansas income is around 50,000 according to the data city. As not only can you tell that Arkansas City is low income…
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King took pace in 1968. Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher, decided to conduct an experiment with her students on race, discrimination and bigotry. During her experiment, she decided to split her students in to two section, which were the blue and brown eye groups. Elliot than decided that the blue eye go first on the first day of her experiment. They were the superior groups for that day, they had all the privileges. Example they were allowed seconds at…