Knowledge worker

Looking back I was a much kinder and warm hearted child but for good reason. My mother taught me to be kind because she was never taught anything else by her mother. This is where education is biased because she is only teaching me off of her own knowledge. I have always been praised for being kind not only from my family, but from my girlfriend and from friends as well. Sadly only two out of those categories of people know what I have been through in my life. My family, mostly my parents never…

learning (Schiro, 2008). The aim of learning is personal growth rather than knowledge acquisition and this has obvious implications in the way curricula are designed. A learner-centred curriculum may allow students to decide the learning objectives, learning methods and pace of their own learning; assessment is usually formative or from self-evaluation; teachers are there to facilitate learning rather than to transmit knowledge (Ross 2000; Harden 1984). Ross (2000) gives further detail on a…

Each individual has a specific learning style that fits their personality and how they think, learning helps us to gain new knowledge and acquire new skills that we may incorporate in our daily lives. As you work through this course you will understand that the way we learn is dependent on how we think and make decisions. Our different styles of learning fall into patterns. After taking this course and understanding my LCI learning patterns, I have found that we practice each pattern in a…

and computer science. There are four basic components of ITS, including the student knowledge, domain knowledge, tutoring knowledge, and communication knowledge. Student knowledge is also known as student model. It is a database used to diagnose student 's understanding, learning characteristics, and even the level of concentration. It is used to modify the teaching strategy after the test. Domain knowledge is also known as expert model. It contains the comprehensive theories and…

Describe the information-processing theory of cognitive development. According to K. Berger (2008), the information-processing theory is a “vew of cognition as comparable to the functioning of a computer and as best understood by analyzing each aspect o the functioning” (pg 310). The information-process are comprised of three important components, sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory. The sensory memory is the component that allows stimulas information to be stored for a split…

Pedagogical content knowledge is the knowledge of “representing and formulating the subject matter to make it comprehensible to others” (Shulman, 1986, p. 9). In other words, PCK comprises knowing the subject matter and how to teach it. Shulman described PCK to include the representation…

I believe, based on personal experience, that the majority of people don’t find pleasure in being wrong. I have also found that people dislike even more when someone else publically acknowledges their falsehood. This was the case back in 399 BC when Greek philosopher, Socrates, sought to find the truth of things and was charged, convicted, and sentenced to death. Because Socrates never committed anything to paper, the only glimpse we have to his life is through the writing of others,…

The lesson that I have taught before was an application of using proportions as an application for Algebra 1 and as an introduction to the lesson of similarity of polygons for Geometry. The objective of the lesson was to use ratios to find your height. First, I give my height, and the students measure my shadow with a yard, using inches as units. Then, the students measure the shadow of their partner. Then, the students use my height, my shadow, and their shadow to find out how tall are they…

Chapter 3 1. Accretion: The most common type of cognitive learning. Adding new knowledge, meanings, and beliefs to an associative network. 2. Activation: The essentially automatic process by which knowledge, meanings, and beliefs are retrieved from memory and made available for use in cognitive processing. 3. Affect: A basic mode of psychological response that involves a general positive/negative feeling and varying levels of activation or arousal of the physiological system that…

Vygotsky’s ideas about providing students with scaffolding that builds knowledge, building those structure properly means knowledge can be transferred and explored by students. Bruner mentioned “…education is not to impart knowledge, but instead to facilitate a child 's thinking and problem solving skills” (1961, cited in McLeod, 2012a). This process of facilitating a child’s thinking and problem solving…