Tacit knowledge

Everyone has his or her own understanding of “justice” and their meanings of the word are shaped by different characteristics like culture and personal experiences. In today’s world, “justice” is a vague term with potentially biased notions since it is difficult to set up a perfect and universally acceptable criterion that describes ultimate justice. For the purpose of this essay, a more flexible and practical definition of justice should be employed. Upon examining the social realms across…

Standard 1: Learner Development and Individual Learning Differences The most critical standard in my opinion is Standard 1. As educators, we must make an effort in getting to know our students. Figuring out the best way they learn, what they are interested in, their family background and understand how they develop. Once we know that, we can differentiate any lesson or activity. This will then make it meaningful to them and they will enjoy learning. This part of the e-Portfolio will focus on…

Prescribed Title: With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. To what extent can shared knowledge modify our behaviour and perspective on aspects of life? Shared knowledge plays a huge role in shaping who we are as people, it helps us to identify ourselves and hence, quite obviously have a great influence over our personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is knowledge that many people take part in producing via collaboration, and…

There are various types of creativity and settings that cultivate creativity, but some of the characteristics are common to all types. First of all, before the creative process begins children need materials and basic knowledge of their properties. After the process has begun, if children are self-aware then they choose to deal with something that interests them. Creativity is about being excited about taking risks, doing something that is challenging, trying to make discoveries…

As Venkatesh continued to meet new people living in the Homes, and as he got to know J.T. better, he began noticing that most of them participated somehow in hustling. J.T. is a pro by now, and runs many side hustles besides only being a gang leader. He allows squatters to live in the Robert Taylor Homes in exchange for a tax, and he manages some prostitutes for a cut of their wages, for example. Some squatters, like C-Note, also hustle though. C-Note revealed to Sudhir that he was making more…

The reading of the week was Tool by Andrew Blauelt. We started the class by mentioning his example from the movie Odyssey: Intelligence is using and designing tools. With this in our mind we examined how our tools changed, how this changed us and the role of computer. Puckey says computer is not just a tool, in comparison to what I've seen in interviews of artists I admire such as Yuko Schimizu. She insists computer is just a tool but maybe that's because she's actually an illustrator. Puckey…

are only two ways by which humankind can produce knowledge which are through passive observation or through active experiment. It mentions the word ‘Produce’ knowledge, which is the act of creating something new, in order to create something new, imagination and self reflection is required, which are indeed new ways of learning. Active experiment can be seen as experiencing an event first hand. It’s where the learner keenly searches for knowledge, whereas passive observation can be seen as…

These helps us to bring different areas of knowledge closer and combine them to make things better. However, a single approach only makes us focus on things strictly within its limitations and restrictions, resulting in narrow visions and thoughts. Constructivism is a learning theory where people understand…

administered considering it to be the end of the learning process moreover the assessment pattern and the learning goals never matched each other and thereby leave the learner ambiguous. Testing of theoretical knowledge…

Case Study 1.1 1. Mr. Morgan and his teachers have a common goal and that is to match the teaching syles on individual teachers to meet the needs of the new students. 2. Mr. Morgan wants all teachers to be shared leaders in the selection process. They are working in groups wanting to achieve a common goal. Mr. Morgan creates the process by which the staff will be working toward realizing his goal. 3. If I were Mr. Morgan, I would encourage the group to trust the process, knowing that they need…