Assignment 1.2 As stated in Chapter 2 of your text, critical thinking involves an integrated set of thinking abilities and attitudes, including thinking actively, exploring situations, thinking independently, viewing situations from different perspectives, and discussing ideas in an organized way. For this assignment, you will analyze a fictional court case with Mary Barnett as the [...]
2 Comments. Continue Reading...Assignment 1.1 Chapter 1 of the text introduces critical thinking as an active process and lays the foundation for achieving goals, making effective decisions and learning to think creatively. For this assignment, you will analyze a future decision. First, describe an important decision in your academic or personal life that you will have to make [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...This is a reflective post as it relates to my Learning Styles class. We are using the Strenght, Improvement, Insight model. (Beyerlein & Apple, 2005) Strength – Describe the strongest learning experience(s) you had thus far and why it/they were important to you. I have very much appreciated creating and participating in the blogs in [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...After reading Learning Styles theory at controversy? by Victor Hugo Rojas, I was surprised that there is such debate on Learning Styles. Even to the point where some are calling it racism. I believe education is going to change radically in terms of teaching to the individual and not mass producing industrial age, standardized workers. [...]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...Assignment 3.2 To begin, let’s take a look at the environment which you have created to help your learners learn.* Discuss the following (please provide specific details, so that others may borrow or adapt your ideas for their environment): How have you helped develop/create an environment that promotes trust amongst your learners? How do you [...]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...Assignment 2.1 Find at least 2 to 4 resources that discuss other learning style theories. Based on the information you find, discuss the following: How does the information you found compare and contrast to the theories discussed in the book? What new knowledge can you take and apply to your learners or to your approach [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Blogs on Learning Styles from my fellow students in the Bellevue AEDU 321 class: http://aedu321-boom.blogspot.com/ http://badort.blogspot.com/ http://bellevueaedu-stacey.blogspot.com/ http://5reeds.blogspot.com/ http://my.siouxlandvoice.com/Groups/Foodies/blog http://www.educationrebels.blogspot.com/ http://creatinglearningstyles.blogspot.com/ http://tungebellevueuniv.blogspot.com/ http://nahnook.blogspot.com/ http://rosiaaedu321.blogspot.com/ http://mythoughtsonadultlearning.blogspot.com/ http://misslisathoughts.blogspot.com/ http://cjbeebe.blogspot.com/ http://delightfulinsights.weebly.com/ Will edit as more add their blogs to the discussion site! There are some really good ideas!
No Comments. Continue Reading...Assignment 1.2 The book does state that it is not necessary for an instructor to prepare 20 ways to teach the same thing – it would be unreasonable. I believe we can agree with that, but are there techniques you can be using to spice up your instruction? Utilize the internet (not Wiki) and library [...]
2 Comments. Continue Reading...Assignment 1.1 It is important to know your own learning style before you begin to assess those of others. In the Course Documents please click on the link to the learning styles assessments. You will see there are a variety of them – each of you much complete the first one, “Rightbrain-Leftbrain Assessment” and then [...]
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Assignment 1.4 – Group Project This assignment will be one that you will work on in an assigned group, and you will work on it all four weeks. The final result will be a presentation of your group’s new and improved theory of learning. Throughout this course you will learn about different learning theories and [...]
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