tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post7453730414287157791..comments2023-10-23T13:40:11.669-07:00Comments on In the Know(ledge): Writing and EducationGideonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13328578010572353558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post-3861530394862057792011-10-17T15:30:55.175-07:002011-10-17T15:30:55.175-07:00I appreciate you connecting the class lecture to y...I appreciate you connecting the class lecture to your blog post, as I missed that class period. I wonder how my learning experience would change personally if i didn't take notes, but instead tried to absorb what was the most important. We would need to come up with different learning strategies and techniques for this. I wonder if we are too tied down to the pen and paper and concerned about what "we need to know" from the objective stand point of a test. For example, in this class, we are not tested objectively on what we talk about in lecture. Instead, if we choose to, we can allow the lecture to catapult our ideas and build on it in a blog post or continue to ponder its significance and/or application to our lives and society.Brianne Burrastonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12153968639802447062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post-41506929907407752942011-10-17T12:58:54.343-07:002011-10-17T12:58:54.343-07:00Jared, I really like your comment about how temple...Jared, I really like your comment about how temples are places of learning, and how these places of learning are those without a classroom. I find this to be very true. In my major, we learn that some of the most impactful life experiences are those that are outside, in a challenging environment, where you are forced into action. This is opposite of a classroom where you just sit and do hardly anything. Most of the time, your teachers conform your thoughts instead of learning how to think for yourself. That is why so many Dental students fail their first year: because although they might have gotten a 4.0 in college, they did not learn the practical skills necessary for what the actual job entailed. <br /><br />In my major, we really emphasize this issue in terms of "generality" and "Co-development of skills." Generality is how your self-efficacy (confidence; belief of yourself) in an activity can transfer to a different activity. And co-development of skills is how the skills for one thing can be applied to another thing. They are very much the same, but one is your self-efficacy and the other is your skill level.<br /><br />If more students were allowed the privilege to participate in vocational training, internships, and study abroads as a part of their education, they would be able to learn the proper skills necessary, and then be able to apply them to other areas (because of generality and co-development of skills), thus facilitating a higher level of learning.Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18059240899427746560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post-9884323422519075022011-10-13T22:08:54.051-07:002011-10-13T22:08:54.051-07:00Ah you see the difference is that my college caree...Ah you see the difference is that my college career has only just begun. I was referring to high school, middle school and even elementary school. So far so good in college.Alex Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11306632917029801453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post-32179718681787258042011-10-13T21:36:31.854-07:002011-10-13T21:36:31.854-07:00I have had a significantly different experience th...I have had a significantly different experience than you have in my college career. Somehow I've managed to get several professors who sought to teach me how to identify and solve problems, using their knowledge to guide me toward what answers they already knew. Thus I've had a significantly open-ended education, in contrast to the 'rote learning' that you cited earlier. This may be because of my Computer Science major, being tied closely to rapidly growing technology where unsolved problems are still being discovered. <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~mike/mikeg/CS252/p36-kramer.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here is an interesting article</a> on how different majors may tailor their teaching styles to allow for more or less freedom to their students.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07257798265518241987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1018898419073522077.post-25890645106108476972011-10-13T10:36:30.318-07:002011-10-13T10:36:30.318-07:00I loved the quote that "Early in Sumerian civ...I loved the quote that "Early in Sumerian civilization, schooling was associated with the priesthood and took place in temples." In the Church, we often refer to temples as places of learning. This may seem strange at first given that there are no classrooms like there are in a meetinghouse, but because of the things we do in the temple where we learn more about God's Plan of Happiness and more about ourselves, temples are indeed houses of learning. This could definitely be one of those pieces of truth that different civilizations have picked up incompletely through history that was in fact picked up by the Sumerians. When we think about other ancient temples, they weren't used for learning. There were no teachers or students in the Parthenon or Hatsheput's temple. Perhaps this was a truth that initially was held by the Sumerians but was lost by the time centuries later when the Egyptians began to construct temples to their pharaohs and instead of teachers had gardens or 50+ foot tall statues.Jared Willdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12915828265766451373noreply@blogger.com