Thinking Maps

Trying to explain learning to anyone is a challenge I think. I feel as though the term “learning” is not just one straight forward definition. If I had to explain it to someone who hasn’t taken this class, my old definition would have been simply any information gathered and stored in the brain through the use of our five senses. Taking this class, and critically reading the text given, has made me realize that my explanation of learning was only partially correct. After conducting a…

On July 30, 2012 three women from the punk group called Pussy Riot, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were in court on the charge of hooliganism for disrupting a church service in Moscow 's Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Although the evidence is enough to put away the three women the court acted unjust and biased throughout the whole trial denying Pussy Riot a fair trial. Since the Russian court system did not allow a fair and just trial for the members of Pussy…

disadvantage to the student. In addition, younger children usually have a harder time with the capacity to be reflective thinkers. This could cause them to be more dependent on the teacher for information. This leads to rote memory and not higher order thinking. This brings to light the biggest disadvantage when using tis instruction technique; dependency of the students. If too much scaffolding takes place by the teacher, the students are not able to make their own connections or form…

In this article it mentions some interesting facts.it says that service learning has an impact on student in various aspect areas like critical thinking, moral development, leadership skill, and civic responsibility. No doubt, working with these kid make me need to be more critical thinking person in order to find a various ways to teach my fellow students, as individual student is different from another. It’s impossible that you can teach every kid in a same pattern…

Since the late 1800s, there has been a constant struggle to maintain equality and equity for African Americans students in the public education system. Even after the success of Brown vs. Board of Education, which granted African Americans and other minority groups the right to receive an equal education in public schools, there has been a major increase in the achievement gap between African Americans, other minority group(s) and the dominant Caucasian race. This gap has been understood to be…

In this paper, I will explain Rene Descartes’ response from his Sixth Meditation to his dreaming argument from the First Meditation. Descartes’ Meditations are the processes of thinking that he attempted to create a stronger basis for our ways of thinking by doubting on various beliefs that are skeptical. In his Sixth Meditation, Descartes found an answer to his doubt and used that to refute his first premise of the dreaming argument. He knew that he could actually tell the different whether he…

just as much, maybe even more than what he did, making them disagree. They would disagree so much to the point where she threatened him with a dagger or sent the guards in to take him away, although she’d dismiss them once they arrived. Critical thinking could have played a role for yogi if he were to sit back and continue asking her more questions about what she knew so he could get educated on the things he was unaware of or disagreed with. But after their arguing, they laughed together and…

Identified Flying Objects Passage located in page 92 of How to Think About Weird Things claims that there is too many empirically profound evidence to simply just deny the existence of extraterrestrials. People sometimes say things that seem to suggest that knowledge doesn’t require belief. For example, after reading extraterrestrials’ evidences we might remark, “I understand that they exist, but I still don’t believe it.” What we mean, though, is not that we doubt that what we’ve read is true…

teacher? Being a teacher is the without doubt the hardest work I have ever done, but no other type of job has ever given me as much satisfaction. Helping my students to comprehend the science behind this world we live in and watching their critical thinking skills grow warms my heart. I think teachers play a critical role in society in these rapidly changings times, a basic comprehension of scientific method is crucial to the development of an informed citizenry. Finally, I enjoy being around…

The Common Core standards promote critical thinking as well as thinking analytical. Common Core challenges students to critically think rather than guessing which multiple choice answer is correct or the memorization of the correct answer. These standards are meant to get the student to fully understand what…