Blog Qustion Week #7

The left side of the brain recognizes words, letters, and numbers. It also deals with the areas of speech and certain sequences. The right hemisphere recognizes faces, places, and objects. Using different teaching techniques will help all students larn better because some use there right brain more and visa versa. Some students prefer lectures while others prefer a more visual approach. Art plays a huge role in human development and cognitive growth.

Blog Question Week #6

Transfer is defined by Sousa as the ability to learn in one situation and then use that learning, possibly in a modified or generalized form, in other situations. I think that todays learning is tomorrows transfer means that we have to teach kids the right way today for them to use the information taught successfully in the future. Our ultimate goal as future teachers is to be able to teach students information successfully and for them to use it successfully in the real world.

Blog Question #4

Does practice make perfect? I believe that the more that you practice, the better that youll be at aomething. For example, if you taught a lesson where you had to solve 100 equations and they were almost the exact same equation, eventually you would get better at them and be able to solve them easier. The way that i teach will include doing a ton of practice along with visual learning. There will be a ton of action and minimal lecturing because i dont think that kids will learn that way.

Blog Question Week #3

A metaphor for an information processing model would be a product at a factory. It starts out with all the ingredients and things tht are needed to make the product. Then as it moves along the conveyor belt it adds information and eventually ens up as a finished product and is ready for storage and then eventually to be shipped out and moved.

Blog Question Week #2

Why is it important to include novelty in a lesson.

Novelty is important in a lesson because it keeps the students interested in what the teacher is teaching and to keep the students paying attention in class. Novelty keeps the students on their toes and makes them excited about learning. It also reduces the risk of sleeping in class.

Blog Question- Week #1

When asked how i would define my intelligence, i would say that i define it as the growth mindset. I never knew anything about the brain but i was constantly learning and knowing that i could obtain knowledge. I think for a person to be intellectual, they have to be both book smart as well as street smart. There were some classes and times when i thought that i could not grow and that i was doing as well as i possibly could. I think that if i was in the experiment and i was one of those 7th graders, it would not have helped me to learn about the brain. I dont think of my brain and how it can grow. I think that i would be better off learning betr ways to study and im slightly skeptical about this new neuroscience in the class room study.