Collective intelligence

The Purdue Three Stage Model The Purdue Three Stage Model is a framework for a program or curriculum with an emphasis on creativity, higher level thinking, problem-solving skills, and independent learning abilities. This model is dependent upon trained and creative teachers willing to teach, facilitate and finally offer resources for each individual student. Criterion 1: Respect for individuals with diverse abilities, strengths, and goals (PARTIALLY MET) The Purdue Three Stage Model ’s gifted…

Intelligence is used every single day. It can be used effectively to manage a household and finances, to raise a family, to participate in higher education, in planning schedules, to file taxes, to operate a vehicle or to simply go to work and perform your job. Intelligence is essential in daily life. I use my intelligence when I am work on my school work. Without intelligence, I would not be able to comprehend the assignments and tasks…

Every person in this world has different attitudes towards learning. There is someone who wants to study for his or her own benefit and there are some people who use learning as a reason to fulfill desire such as gaining a title and money. Learning for external benefit is totally against the Chinese teaching, especially when it comes to Confucius. Confucius is well known as one of the most influential Chinese philosophers and teachers. His teachings are focusing on the social relationship such…

during tests I can remember them to help me answer questions. Multiple intelligence also explains different learning styles. Bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and musical/rhythmic are my top three learning styles. My bodily/kinesthetic intelligence basically is that I actively get involved with my learning. I just started taking my flashcards to the gym so I can go over them while on the treadmill. My interpersonal intelligence is being able to be a great leader, do well in cooperative…

In his book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein claims that those who constitute the population of individuals under the age of thirty are members of the “dumbest generation”. He even goes to such an extreme as saying, “You guys don’t know anything,” (Bauerlein). However, is this not true? In today’s society, the students in the education system have gone from genuinely attempting to learn subject matter to simply just caring about letter grades and percentages, rather than retaining the…

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning technique used in school systems around the United States. Its success found in the classroom with student participation has not gone unnoticed and more and more schools have started to use this style of teaching. Just as in a jigsaw puzzle, the jigsaw classroom works the same way. Each student is an important piece to the learning process and assigned a job to help create a final product. Since students’ parts are so essential, each student feels…

Throughout history civilizations have used physical objects to help solve everyday math problems. In Southwest Asia they used counting trays; wooden or clay trays covered in sand that the user drew symbols in as a tally chart. The ancient Romans then modified these to create the world’s first abacus. The Mayans, Aztecs and Incas all had different versions of knotted strings. The first true manipulatives were invented in the late 1800’s, they were maneuverable objects that appealed to several…

Throughout all events in history and through all decades of art and literature, one thing has been made abundantly clear: Humans do not enjoy oppression. Humanity is consistent in its innate desire to fight any oppressive leader or social behavior that infringes on their rights as an individual. Whether it be through social and political movements or war, humankind has shown that what every individual wants - above all else - is freedom. They crave the freedom to live as they choose, protecting…

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world” (Ludwig Wittgenstein, n.d). There are four theories on how children gain oral language they are Behaviorist, Innatist, Constructivist and Social Interactionist. All four theories have there own belief as to why they feel the way they do, there are also questions on these theories about how they are missing key points for children to gain oral development. Every one is entitled to their opinion and their view as why they feel the way they…

Vygotsky placed a great deal of importance on the position played by culture in an infant’s development. He accepted that infants were born with established mental abilities like the capacity to focus on specific items. However, according to his theory, infants don 't have the capacity to do thing such as problem solving. Infants are able to learn through guided learning from more intelligent people. One of the key ideas of Vygotsky 's theory is the zone of proximal development. This is the…