Class 6- January 31, 2011

   Today's class started with some members of the class asking questions about assignments and the blog. Dr.Smirnova explained that this is a new semester,a new course, that we are pioneers and explorers. The blog should include the first class activities which was the Name Tag activity. Name Tag activity: what happen in the activity and what you do with your own classroom. In your classroom you could use an   Icebreakers like Dr. Smirnova did on the first day of class. In the blog should include student's seeking science. The reflection for the first  two weeks in class should be included in the blog.. After we finished talking about the blog, the class went on to talk about the syllabus. 

  The class went on to do different activities after talking about the questions raised by my classmates in regard to the syllabus.  Dr. Smirnova asked the question: What concepts most important when teaching sciences? :  My answers were : scientific learning, observation, teaching, inquiry, technology, and experience. After answering that question, Dr. Smirnova had a word document on the screen at the front of the room and we had to put down a percentage for each of the statements listed under How People Learn. See my post called How People Learn for what numbers I put for each statement. We first put down the number percentage individually and then we discussed the statements and what number percentages we put with our group members. After all the groups had discussed all the statements and the number percentages we put for each statement, Dr. Smirnova put up the results. After doing the How People Learn activity, we did the Conceptions of Learning. There were five statements about learning on the white board / smart board from the module site. In groups we (the class) worked with our group members and figured out what learning statements we thought defined you as a person. My group, group number three picked statements four and five. We picked statements four and five for this activity because four and five are the highest level of learning and represents a deeper type of learning. After the Conceptions of Learning activity, Dr.Smirnova talked about what is knowledge? We as a class had a discussion about what is knowledge? some of the responses from the class were: facts and ideas, representations, opinions, thoughts, discoveries, concepts. Knowledge is facts, concepts, and declarative knowledge. After we (the class) discussed the word knowledge, Dr. Smirnova showed use Jerome Bruner pyramid of knowledge..

This pyramid represents important concepts. declarative knowledge is important. 

concepts: illustrate facts

abstract 

concrete

generalizations: statements about science

metacognition: learning about learning 

today in classroom: the children just repeat what teachers says and drill to the test

* predict, create, evaluate- high level of Bloom Taxonomy 

To conclude class today we watch a video called Fish is Fish Story 




This lesson has taught me the importance of asking questions. It is important for students and teachers to ask questions. It is a good idea for students to be curious and to ask questions to learn more information about a topic we (the class) are studying. Questioning is a form of learning and a way to engage students into learning about certain topics. Asking questions are good to do throughout the lesson. It is important to ask questions as a way to hook and engage students into a lesson.  As a future teacher I learned to engage students into the lesson and to make lesson fun for students and to test the students in your class knowledge by asking the students questions. It is also important for all the students in the class to agree with the response that their classmate gave to one of my questions. If the student does not understand the question or topic or the process or method I as the teacher will explain that topic or process or question the whole class so that student understands that concept as well as the whole class. Questioning is very important for lesson and in teaching.