tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23321354853712039682024-03-05T11:26:50.659-08:00Yee Thought of MaThyeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-58900018243444749152012-09-24T09:08:00.002-07:002012-09-24T09:08:57.254-07:00One year after graduationNew job...not what I studied for....but honestly is bit relaxing....<br />
nevertheless, is this what I want?<br />
<br />
continue to further Master.....<br />
Please give me strength to read all the books....<br />
<br />
And recently read back what I prepared for Psycho Math....<br />
thank you that I still keep this site and can use for my course....<br />
<br />
New Role....New Responsibility.......<br />
I need determination and motivation.....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-80745286330315975732011-12-28T23:14:00.001-08:002011-12-28T23:14:16.007-08:00after LM<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i have went to casino in Singapore, start gambling at 3 am....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">went to kuala selangor, sekinchan </span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">went to bangkok with relatives....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">preparing myself for graduation.....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i really cant believe i m graduated!!!</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i still looked very childish in the convo photo...</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">a change occur with a call on the day b4 convo....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">tutors was needed...</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i tell parents, get their approval, arrange place to stay...(the old place) </span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">and start a next journey....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">actually i cant stay those questions anymore(what are you doing? what do you plan to do.....)</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">and all my friends pursuit me to try another more challenging job....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">with a doubt, i sent in a terrible resume....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">and went for interview....and i get the post as an assisstant teacher and mandarin teacher at a very young international school....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i cant really believe it....!!!!</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">i think it is really my luck that they desperately need teacher....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">so i work as a tutor on tuesday, thursday &friday.... 7-7 and get 250 that week....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">attnent cousin convo....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">and start another journey....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">working as an assistant teacher, is quite fun, challenging and little bit stress...</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">cos i lack of the experience and confidence....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">too worried if the pupils (rich ppl children) dun like me or the parents/teacher dun believe me....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">nevertheless....i wnat the experience!!!!</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">we went to FRIM togehter....though they just 7-10 yrs old, they manage to conquer the climbing....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">they are able to carry themselves.....even though they maybe just 4 yrs old, they would vomit or pee in class....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">but we cant physicall punish them...</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">everyday must start fresh, expect it will be a good day....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">and though everyday will very tired....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">everyday....so tired that want to go to bed on 11....have to wake up at 530....even mum was surprise....but seems it is good for my skin....and seems lost some weight....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">one children extract teeth....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">3 going to leaves....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">they like mental math....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">vey talkative....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">need to give numbers to calm them down,....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">they know my weakness....i m too kind to them....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">are they not respecting me????</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">dun know....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">seems like i m going to move to another stage.....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">now got the offer to further study master in UM....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">just resign.....(a memorable day....beind receptionist, get to know new friends)</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">attend a grand wedding....thanks to my cousin for helping me to do my hair....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">now....got back old habit....spending all time watching drama....</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">should i help my mum clean the house???</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">should i study????</span><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">why i m so lazy......</span>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-71929202920925460302011-04-12T20:38:00.000-07:002011-04-12T20:41:47.239-07:00cHanGe of rOlEi m nervous<br />
i must say<br />
i need to transform from a students to a teacher in 1 month time....<br />
i had been a students for 19 years....<br />
i m a good students...<br />
i pay attention in class...<br />
i do score in exam<br />
(though i m not excellent in my social skills)<br />
<br />
now i need to become a teacher....<br />
after seeing, observing, listening, interacting with teachers my whole life....<br />
could i play the role of teacher well???<br />
could i make or HELP students to learn?<br />
will they like me?<br />
will they listen to me?<br />
could i achieve the expectation of <br />
the students?<br />
the teachers?<br />
the headmasters/mistress?<br />
the evaluator?<br />
will i succeed?<br />
<br />
could i cope with a new life?<br />
in a new place?<br />
new school?<br />
probably new town?<br />
new house?<br />
<br />
what kind of schools will i get?<br />
what kind of students will i meet?<br />
<br />
would i able to plan interactive activities?<br />
interesting activities?<br />
do i have the time to carry out the activities?<br />
<br />
what shall i do after this?<br />
after i finish my practical?<br />
after the graduation?<br />
<br />
i m nervous....<br />
i can only wait and react.....<br />
and be calm...<br />
as the Chinese saying: 'the ship will become straight when it reaches the harbour'<br />
i wish the 1st 2 weeks in the school will be exam week, <br />
so that i can be more prepared....<br />
<br />
i must admit....<br />
i m not an excellent teacher....<br />
cos i m not yet prepared....<br />
<br />
so, i must be optimistic<br />
i must be ready to take challenge...<br />
i must do my best.....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-60894393187194426342011-04-11T00:57:00.000-07:002011-04-11T00:57:08.792-07:00final class noteseach of us get a free MEP magazines, yahoo!!!!!!<br />
<br />
why we learn /have our own theories<br />
so that we understand students<br />
<br />
it all depends on situation<br />
<br />
in a magazines: can for ppl with different intelligence....<br />
some visual, some lingustic<br />
<br />
a problem might have more than 1 solution<br />
critical thinking<br />
<br />
to prepare a presentation: each have different presentation way...different intelligence....<br />
exam: to test in written form....<br />
<br />
constructivism and learning mathematics<br />
ppl vary considerably in the innate levels of math intelligence they are borm with<br />
Nature vs Nurture: helen keller<br />
<br />
brain has great plasticity<br />
a lot of brain growth after a person is born<br />
the brain continues to grow new neurons and new connecions among neurins throughout lifes<br />
some drugs can damage brain cells<br />
a certain amount of math knowledge and skill is innate-genetic in origin<br />
the great majority of a person's math knowledge and skills comes form learning, use parts of brain to learn to do math, <br />
math is a cumulative, vertically structured discipline (constructivism)<br />
one learns math by building on the math that one has previously learned<br />
<br />
why teach addition 1st: simple, more example<br />
<br />
a constructive approach<br />
ppl are born with an innate ability to deal with small integer (1, 2, 3, 4) and to make comparative estimates of larger numbers (the number of st in this class is more than that class)<br />
human brain has component that can adapt to learning and using math<br />
humans vary considerably in their innate math abilities and intelligences<br />
environment vary tremendously<br />
thus, when we combine nature and nurture, by the time children enter school, they have tremendouly varying level of knowledge, skills and interests<br />
altough we offer standard curr, the actual curr, instruction, assessment, engagement of instrinsic and extrinsic, and so on varies considerably<br />
appropriate use of constructivist teaching and learning principles<br />
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constructive environment includes<br />
<ul><li>journaling or diary (keep track)</li>
<li>project-based learning (PBL)</li>
<li>problem based learning</li>
</ul>transfer of learning and learning mathematics<br />
transfer of learning (use wat ever learnt to apply / address problem encountered later): <br />
<ul><li>teaching for transfer is one of the seldom-specified but most important goals in edu</li>
<li>to gain knowledge and skills st can use in & outside school now& future</li>
<li>deals with transfering one knowledfe i skill in problem solving situation</li>
<li>teaching for transfert often happen without conscious thought.....(making milo compare with making a tea)</li>
<li>occurs at subconscious level, perhaps aided with a little conscious thought</li>
<li>many transfer of learning situations that are far more difficult</li>
</ul>situated learning<br />
learning normally occurs is a fx of the activity, context and culture in which it occurs<br />
learners become more active and engaged within the culture (social interaction)yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-18073301427017277182011-04-06T00:34:00.000-07:002011-04-06T00:34:23.415-07:00super genius / gifted students & multiple intelligences<a href="http://dawnlikechickenrice.blogspot.com/2011/04/super-prodigy.html">http://dawnlikechickenrice.blogspot.com/2011/04/super-prodigy.html</a><br />
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What if.....Why.......they will always ask this....contrast with slow learners (seldom ask)<br />
they learn a language very fast<br />
intellectual playfulness= very creative, eg: some computer games can be very intellectual<br />
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assessment: require more from this group of students, dont satisfy easily, see whether they can go higher; ask st to explain<br />
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textbook: enriched, include concepts beyond the basics<br />
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have multiple resources to help students<br />
flexible: eg: more than 1 methods to solve a problem....<br />
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talk to the parents, let them participate in contest: math olypmpic, new south wales<br />
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have career talk where the ppl have opportunity to know them<br />
group activity: create free thinking....<br />
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let the children mix with other with the same ability, professor, they will be able to give feedback<br />
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they lack of experience in concrete activities<br />
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calcultors: exploring tools<br />
computer: have many advantages<br />
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24 Game: suitable to them<br />
Sudoku.....kakuro<br />
to make it simpler....start form 2X2.......<br />
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<a href="http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/teaching_gifted_math.htm">http://www.educationoasis.com/resources/Articles/teaching_gifted_math.htm</a><br />
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can give normal students 1-2 level higher problem (as enrichment activity)....maybe 1-2 studens can do it...indirectly help the st learn a bit than what they can....<br />
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mep: the magazine towards english proficency<br />
<a href="http://mepedu.com/">http://mepedu.com/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Multiple intelligence-Howard Gardner: a feel good theory</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.php">http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.php</a><br />
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coach: strategy good...<br />
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spatial-visual: they need to see the thing..<br />
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can have more than 1 intelligences.....<br />
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they are outstanding in their field...<br />
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some of the st have different learning style from others....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-26880264926673068342011-04-04T20:53:00.000-07:002011-04-11T00:16:57.414-07:00Carl Rogers1st of all, i must say that i really think his name sound like<br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxIBvMnbVcHVhXyEefp2i3pBHnIcUF3fbHzNgL-yIXcBrmLZMsS0iwOQjaeRsABSUaCe6jyJz5qycRaBwo8bYexAeKtsosWahxP98RQAqB6mfpliwE4AjQ5e4QNi76v2e6k9azV0Xv5A/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOxIBvMnbVcHVhXyEefp2i3pBHnIcUF3fbHzNgL-yIXcBrmLZMsS0iwOQjaeRsABSUaCe6jyJz5qycRaBwo8bYexAeKtsosWahxP98RQAqB6mfpliwE4AjQ5e4QNi76v2e6k9azV0Xv5A/s1600/images.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">& i wound be happy if they have some connection........</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CCal4TGMD58tajvL_mXCErgpiBz5SnaXP4GnsSlJp8c-DbXhOI7ht8wcYYxI0v8yHsIYM13mNPB4nlF7aymuscJVVPxUcVkLjjuVeGHkfNfMg8cWoz1jDFdxsvwmtlFV36IY5ffv5l4/s1600/carlBW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CCal4TGMD58tajvL_mXCErgpiBz5SnaXP4GnsSlJp8c-DbXhOI7ht8wcYYxI0v8yHsIYM13mNPB4nlF7aymuscJVVPxUcVkLjjuVeGHkfNfMg8cWoz1jDFdxsvwmtlFV36IY5ffv5l4/s320/carlBW.jpg" width="219" /></a></div>American psychologisthistory<br />
contributed to fields of education, counseling, psychotherapy, peace, and conflict resolution <br />
one of founder of humanistic psychology<br />
focused on demonstrating the psychological conditions for allowing open communication and empowering individuals to achieve their full potential.<br />
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Since we focus on humanistic theories, let see what is meant by it...<br />
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Humanism is a philosophical movement that emphasises the personal worth of the individual and the centrality of human values. <strong><span style="color: #450761; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: cyan;">The focus of the humanistic perspective is on the self, which translates into "YOU", and "your" perception of "your" experiences.</span> </span></strong>The Humanistic approach rests on the complex philosophical foundations of existentialism, and emphasizes the creative, spontaneous and active nature of human beings. <strong><span style="color: #450761; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: cyan;">This veiw argues that you are free to choose your own behavior, rather than reacting to environmental stimuli and reinforcers.</span> </span></strong>This approach is very optimistic and focusses on noble human capacity to overcome hardship and despair.<b><span style="color: #450761;"> </span><span style="color: cyan;">Issues dealing with self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and needs are paramount. The major focus is to facilitate personal development. <span class="goog_qs-tidbit-0"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">Two major theorists associated with this view are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #450761;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carl Rogers</span> feels that each person operates from a unique frame of reference in terms of buliding</span> </span><span style="color: #ff0047;">Self Regard</span><span style="color: #450761;"> <span style="color: cyan;">or their self concept</span>. </span><span style="color: #ff0047;">Self Concept</span><span style="color: #450761;"> </span><span style="color: cyan;">is one's own belief about themselves. These beliefs stem, in part, from the notion of Unconditional Postive Regard and Conditional Positive Regard. Unconditional positive regard occurs when individuals, especially parents, demonstrate unconditional love. Conditioned positive regard is when that love seems to only come when certain condtions are met. <span class="goog_qs-tidbit-1"><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-1">Rogers theory states that psychologically healthy people enjoy life to</span></span> the fullest, hence, they are seen as <i>fully functioning people</i>.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #450761;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">Abraham Maslow </span>feels that indivduals have certain</span> </span><i><span style="color: yellow;">needs</span></i><span style="color: #450761;"> <span style="color: cyan;">that must be met in an hierarchical fashion, from the lowest to highest. These include</span> </span><span style="color: yellow;">basic needs</span><span style="color: #450761;">, </span><span style="color: yellow;">safety needs</span><span style="color: #450761;">, </span><span style="color: yellow;">love</span><span style="color: #450761;"> </span><span style="color: yellow;">and belonging needs</span><span style="color: #450761;">, </span><span style="color: yellow;">achievement needs</span><span style="color: #450761;">, <span style="color: cyan;">and ultimately</span>, </span><span style="color: yellow;">Self-Actualization.</span><span style="color: #450761;"> </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: cyan;">According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the needs must be achieved in order. For instance, one would be unable to fulfill their safety needs if their physiological needs have not been met.</span></strong><br />
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based on: <br />
<a href="http://wilderdom.com/personality/L10-2Humanistic.html">http://wilderdom.com/personality/L10-2Humanistic.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Theories/humanistic.html">http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Theories/humanistic.html</a><br />
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more about humanistic theory by carl rogers: <a href="http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/iewhite/The%20Humanistic%20Theories%20of%20Carl%20Rogers.htm">http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/iewhite/The%20Humanistic%20Theories%20of%20Carl%20Rogers.htm</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carl Rogers' Quates</span> (that i like):<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.</span><br />
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<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="body" style="color: white;">The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change</span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="body">The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination</span> </span></span><br />
<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span class="body">The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.</span> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I<span style="font-size: large;"> provide a relationship</span> which this person may use for his own personal growth?</span></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The very essence of the <span style="font-size: large;">creative</span> is its novelty, and hence we have <span style="font-size: large;">no standard</span> by which to judge it." </span></div><span style="color: white;"><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is <strong><span style="font-size: large;">my own experience</span></strong>. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me. Neither the Bible nor the prophets -- neither Freud nor research --neither the revelations of God nor man -- can take precedence over my own direct experience. My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always open to correction." </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency <strong><span style="font-size: large;">to live fully</span></strong> in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new."</span><br />
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<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="body" style="color: white;">With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.</span> </span></div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-88599248613303072902011-04-04T20:03:00.000-07:002011-04-04T20:03:25.791-07:00week 13 psiko mathon wednesday, we will have substitute class.....<br />
today....show each other blog.....<br />
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the most important is to learn how to learn...<br />
Carl Rogers....<br />
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oraganizers: a map or steps of procedures....; colours, arrows....factor tree....<br />
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what we learn, we apply....<br />
we aware of it, and do something....<br />
if not work. go on & try another way....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-83456450471460115392011-03-27T07:07:00.000-07:002011-03-27T07:07:40.309-07:00my 1st Prezi1st time using Prezi, a free presentation tool...<br />
at 1st, it is complicated, but after 2 days, it become enjoyable...<br />
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i use Prezi to prepare presentation for Sej Fals Pendi Math assignmetn, GeoGebra & Graphs of function...<br />
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this is not the best Prezi ever, but i hope u will like it...<br />
<a href="https://prezi.com/secure/41197525b524d4c312082af54b0734572b93f06d/">https://prezi.com/secure/41197525b524d4c312082af54b0734572b93f06d/</a><br />
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or can directly use the file below (i hope it works)<br />
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i try to embedded GeoGebra here, but fail.....<br />
so use this link below go to the the GeoGebra files...<br />
<a href="http://www.geogebra.org/en/upload/files/yzy887/4_type_of_graphs.html">http://www.geogebra.org/en/upload/files/yzy887/4_type_of_graphs.html</a><br />
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it is really interesting playing with 2 new software..yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-16437621669901133742011-03-25T20:50:00.000-07:002011-04-05T01:36:08.250-07:00Week 12 Presentation Mathematics Slow Learners<div id="__ss_7393574" style="width: 425px;"><strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/yzy887/week12-math-psychology-slide" title="Week12 Math Psychology slide">Week12 Math Psychology slide</a></strong><object height="355" id="__sse7393574" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=week12psikomath-110325224746-phpapp01&stripped_title=week12-math-psychology-slide&userName=yzy887" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse7393574" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=week12psikomath-110325224746-phpapp01&stripped_title=week12-math-psychology-slide&userName=yzy887" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />
<div style="padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/yzy887">yzy887</a>.</div></div>Grammer error in the slides:<br />
Slide 6: "Constanly reference" to Constrantly refer to<br />
Slide24: "How much he lose" to "How much did he lose?"<br />
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They want to learn, and we want to help them.<br />
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There is no proof that any particular method is beat and it is probable that, as in the teaching of slow learners, the 2 factors most conducive to learning are the <span style="color: cyan;">skills and enthusiasm of the t</span><span style="color: cyan;">eacher</span> and <span style="color: cyan;">a blend of methods to suit the situation</span>.<br />
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The best activities are those arise out of the normal day's activities.<br />
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Effective teacher provide frequent and numerous opportunities for students to makes discoveries and explorations on their own. Certainly it is easier to just tell facts to students, but learning is far more effective, exciting, and pleasurable if the students is able to make these discoveries on his own.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">Mathematical recreations ( tricks, games, or puzzles) provide an excellent means of stimulating the interest of slow learners. Teacher can have 'puzzle of the week' on the bulletin board to capture the attention and interest of students.</span>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-68613495104083136772011-03-21T00:54:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:54:13.302-07:00week 11 class notesLearning to Teach math from other learning theories<br />
Ausubel: verbal meaning learning<br />
Brunner: discovery learning<br />
Skemp: Mathematicak Understanding (relational vs instrumental learning) <br />
Dienes: mathematical fun (game) learning<br />
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ausubel: metapgrs, cognitive structure, heirarchy, subsumption, organizers, retention, (vs) forgetting <br />
mnemonic is 1 of the advance organizers: "kuda baca to"<br />
wat works for a group of stu may not work for other....<br />
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humanistic: relate math to human activities: math is in real life; socialcultural perspective (sosial interection) involved st learning in classroom , in a group<br />
integrated approach: put all this together<br />
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<a href="http://kasut-biru.blogspot.com/2011/03/11th-week-presentation.html">http://kasut-biru.blogspot.com/2011/03/11th-week-presentation.html</a><br />
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humanistic perspective: the development of the child's self-concept<br />
if st feel he is good, it is a good start for his learning....he believe he can go it<br />
eg: if we want to teach addition....if he can answer the question correctly, he will feel good; <br />
if he could not, teacher give guidance (so he would feel better)....repeat the question, make the question simple & small part...relate it to their pass or experience...<br />
teacher use activities<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers</a> (find one or 2 cotation from him about humanistic)<br />
& maslow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow</a><br />
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social personal developmetn: let st do presentation & praise them (the reward) , reduce punishment<br />
make them feel good<br />
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performance-oreinted, still have to test them.....<br />
keep in mind of their level.......ask question of their level....provide oppurtunity for success<br />
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math has more than one way of computation....let them do it their way.....respect st aspiration<br />
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right to self-determination: bagi peluang bina keazaman<br />
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open classroom....mesti use certain strategy.....mesti siap sekian-sekian masa...<br />
learning style....lets st learn in his way.....teacher be flexible<br />
co-operative learning...in group learning....everyone try to be better and best to help others<br />
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social cultural perspective: emphasized the influence of culture, peers and adults on the developing child<br />
zone of proximal devekpment<br />
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cultural tools<br />
computer....some cultural use computer better in learning......eg US and Japan is fast in helping them to learn<br />
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Integrated approach perspective<br />
old math, teach in new way<br />
3 main components: numbers, shapes and relations<br />
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ameriaca & singaopre learn math using themes...in themes have number, shape relation<br />
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integration of math as problem solving, communication, reasoning, connections representation<br />
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in the process of problem solving, they learn about the concept, the learn what is circle, circumferences.....<br />
communication....able to reading (st collect data adn think) , listenint (st respons to questions and think to solve it), <br />
reasoning....basic for understaning and solvinf problem...st preject answer by using concrete materials <br />
<em>(A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a "prime" for short) is a positive integer p > 1 that has no positive integer divisors other than 1 and p itself.</em> (<a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html" target="_blank" vglnk_1300692100368="1">Source</a>)<br />
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1 certainly does not meet that criteria since 1 is not greater than 1. ) st can reasons why, even using definition<br />
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connection...inter & intra<br />
representation...symbol, chart, graph<br />
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6 principles<br />
Equity<br />
curriculum....math is integrated, not separate pieces<br />
teaching...t understand how st learn & select methods for teaching<br />
learning....when to teach and learn math<br />
assessment<br />
technology<br />
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teaching and learning as an integrated approach....make connection....so that the undestanding together<br />
balance between understanding of concepts and mastering of skills<br />
apply mathematical skills in real problem solving situations<br />
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encourage st to use calculator to check the answers.....<br />
when teach problem solving, should also teach to check the asnwer....<br />
so that they will remember to chech their answer<br />
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humanistics mathematics: attenmpt to explore the human side of mathematical thought and to guide st to discover this beauty of mathematics (nature, environment)<br />
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goals: gain appreciates for mathe as a creative, collaborative and move away from thinking of math as a boring subject<br />
looking at problems and concepts in different ways; developing visual techniques for delving deeper into particular topic<br />
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strategies: use visual imagery and art to introduce math idea....to illustrate abstract ideas and make them more concrete<br />
use history and cultural perspective to help st understand math as a human endeavor.....to enliven enthusiasm in the manner in which math is developed<br />
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use collaborative<br />
humanistic math creates a learning environment that is productive, meaningful and enjoyable for st<br />
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social.....math knowledge is build socially and real<br />
math is part of human culture....a human identity....<br />
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history to excite the students toward the subject<br />
values such as efficientcy, confudent level and systematic thinking must be applied throughout this subject<br />
(give them different level of question, so that they are encourage with the small little success)<br />
study group can help st to applu social skilss and cooperative behaviors<br />
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relationship: relate knowledge of conceptual and procedure....and to other subject<br />
st have to participate activily<br />
discusssion<br />
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Integration approcaced...Kaiser Messer<br />
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dimensions of aims....4 goals....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-34686304403699678852011-03-14T01:00:00.000-07:002011-03-14T04:13:29.875-07:00week 10 class noteAusubel<br />
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meaningful learning: understand rather than memorize it<br />
mnemonic is one type of advance organizer (but still a rote learnin), unless can relate<br />
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memorize multipllication table is rote learning, unless u relate to ....<br />
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expositiory--- triangles....show example &non-exaple.....ask to clasify nd give defi od triangles<br />
comparison tye...symbol of abselon with e<br />
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phase two....presentation must be meaningful to the students<br />
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/27043905/Ausubel-Theory">http://www.scribd.com/doc/27043905/Ausubel-Theory</a><br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/27846629/Bruner-Theory-of-Learning">http://www.scribd.com/doc/27846629/Bruner-Theory-of-Learning</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/constructivism/bruner.html">http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/constructivism/bruner.html</a><br />
<a href="http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.html">http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.html</a><br />
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jerome bruner....related and trying to make constructivism more understandable<br />
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notation....the dot for multiplication and decimal must be written correctly<br />
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contrast and variation.....intersection set with ''and'' set....differentiate with integration<br />
connectivity...dydx to graph increase or devrease<br />
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richard skemp: talk about math understanding<br />
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intrumental vs relational UNDERSTANDING<br />
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/46489435/Skemp-Theories">http://www.scribd.com/doc/46489435/Skemp-Theories</a><br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/50402712/Shemp-Teories">http://www.scribd.com/doc/50402712/Shemp-Teories</a><br />
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math as reasoning...use vein diagram<br />
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encourahe balance between computational skills (KNOW HOW) and reasoning skilss (KNOW WHY)<br />
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<a href="http://www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/">http://www.davidairey.com/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/</a><br />
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Zoltan ....CONCRETE EXAMPLE....propose using games in teaching math<br />
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free play: example try and error...play without giving any rules....no rules!!!<br />
games...have rules that st have to follow to play....start seeing the pattern<br />
while playing games....they look for sommunalities like differences.....eg....suduko have rules that each number can appear in .....<br />
representation/.....draw diagram<br />
symbolisation.....formula....<br />
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ZOLTAN for children to actually play with concrete things, easy for them to grasp the concept<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Dienes blocks....helps st to learn numbers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">cuisenaire rods...to teach fraction</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.zoltandienes.com/?page_id=226"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">htt</span>p://www.zoltandienes.com/?page_id=226</a><br />
<a href="http://www.zoltandienes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Six_stages_integers.pdf">http://www.zoltandienes.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Six_stages_integers.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://google-chrome-browser.com/prevent-google-chrome-closing-when-you-close-last-tab">http://google-chrome-browser.com/prevent-google-chrome-closing-when-you-close-last-tab</a><br />
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Bruner.....encourage socratic learning<br />
4 major principles, a perchant (motivated) toward learning<br />
how a body of knowledge is able to be constructed best to be understood by the leaner<br />
effective manners or sequence for the teacher to present said material to the learner<br />
the natural pacing rewards as well as punishment<br />
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good method for stucturing knowledge shoulf result in simpllifying, generatin gnew propositions, and incresing th emanipulation of info<br />
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bruner is passionate about language and how this affects cognition withiun this theory of llearning development<br />
if language skills is not develop, cannot communicate....with others and within the mind<br />
teacher should be given the languages skills too....example when PSMPI is introduced....<br />
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when a questions is big to be undertan, break it into 2, and the merge them togehther<br />
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Ausubel theory is not particularly in vogue today, perhaps because he seems to advocate a fairly passive role for the learner, who receives mainly (active recepting learning) verbal instruction that has been arranged so as to require a minimal amount of 'struggle'.<br />
streesed on meaming ful learning is betterh than discovery learnin<br />
ask them a lot of question...<br />
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summarize 1 paraghaph...4-5 sentense about any one of the theoryyeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-20502504921673439772011-03-08T23:27:00.000-08:002011-03-08T23:27:59.883-08:00Wednesday class notesfinal questions do not come directly from notes n class material,<br />
Q is not going to be what the theory say, nut how does it effect the teaching and learning, its; IMPLICATION<br />
will based on reading<br />
do not memorize all the sentences...but the content<br />
the theories are related, and based on other<br />
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1 of the problem is we dun read a lot....mayb bcos the level of eng is so high....<br />
we need to memorize who say who<br />
but make the theories related to teaching<br />
to feel that it is a new way of looking at teaching...<br />
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constructivist teaching is not well defined, rather it contradicts, philosophically, the meaning of constructivism<br />
(if st build their knowledge, then how we teach them)<br />
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in fact constructivism is not about teaching, it is about knowledge & learning...<br />
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CONSTRUCTIVIST VIEW OF LEARNING: how they view learning<br />
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it is about the teaching which <i>results</i> from such a view of learning.<br />
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The constructivist view involves two principles: (http://www.grout.demon.co.uk/Barbara/chreods.htm)<br />
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1. Knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, not passively received from the environment.<br />
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2. <i>Coming to know</i> is a process of adaptation based on and constantly modified by a learner's experience of the world.<br />
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children get shock in exam bcos the exam paper is not made completely same as what they learn in the class<br />
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RELATE.....only when relate to daily life, it is meaningful to them...<br />
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what is in the computer games have that make it so excited (audio visual colourful, level after another level, reward, competition with computer or friends, something they dun see in normal live, challenges (u have do 5 Qs, not we are going to solve 2 more Qs)<br />
how can we make it in to our teaching....<br />
<a href="http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/review-how-computer-games-help-children-learn/1338">http://www.squarecirclez.com/blog/review-how-computer-games-help-children-learn/1338</a><br />
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only think, we can retain the memory longer.....<br />
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we learn it so that we can use it in our live later on....<br />
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b4 MI, there is only IQ test....;later then found out that intelligence can grow, by educating urself<br />
there4, there is not only 1 way of teaching.......ENDLESS....<br />
eg teaching math using song....for those with MUSIC<br />
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when st having discussion, t should actively help them to develop the ideas,<br />
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over the years, knowledge has grow.....wat is true now is not going to b true forever<br />
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radical cons: knowledge is constructed rather than constricted (knowledge expand)<br />
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<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/most-kids-want-educational-video-games-school">http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/most-kids-want-educational-video-games-school</a><br />
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<h1 class="mgtitle" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most kids want educational video games in school, survey shows. ... So?</h1><div>use games when necessary....when u r tired....computer lab...or 1 computer with projector....(which group handle it the best....fun...other group give points)</div><br />
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why u stressed n u make other ppl stressed?????<br />
punishing them.........why????<br />
yr 1,,,,they not understand school life.....punish them make them hate coming to school....<br />
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<a href="http://www.papert.org/">http://www.papert.org/</a>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-74944468845342145002011-03-08T00:19:00.000-08:002011-03-08T00:22:02.944-08:00Week 9 (ops...) class draff<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Difference between constructivism and Constuctionism</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/guest2ec2f4/constructivsm-vs-constructionism-presentation">http://www.slideshare.net/guest2ec2f4/constructivsm-vs-constructionism-presentation</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132.4253&rep=rep1&type=pdf">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132.4253&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a></span></div><div style="margin: 2.3pt 3.45pt 0.6pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">In education, Piaget described <i>Constructivism</i> as being the process whereby students constructed their own unique systems of knowing, in consequence of which the teacher should focus on this individual process of internal construction rather than standing at the front and spouting their own models.</span></div><div style="margin: 2.3pt 3.45pt 0.6pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Seymour Papert, a student of Piaget, expanded on this to describe <i>Constructionism</i> in terms of helping the student produce constructions that others can see and critique.</span></div><div style="margin: 2.3pt 3.45pt 0.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white;">In this educational frame, then, Constructivism is </span><a href="http://changingminds.org/explanations/research/philosophies/constructionism.htm"><span style="color: white;">more cognitive and Constructionism more physical.</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="googqs-tidbit1"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theory)">Constructionist learning</a></span></b></span><span style="color: white;"><span class="googqs-tidbit1"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> is inspired by the </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(learning_theory)" title="Constructivism (learning theory)"><span class="googqs-tidbit1">constructivist</span></a><span class="googqs-tidbit1"> theory that</span> individual learners construct mental models to understand the world around them. However, constructionism holds that learning can happen most effectively when people are also active in making tangible objects in the real world. In this sense, constructionism is connected with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education" title="Experiential education">experiential learning</a> and builds on some of the ideas of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget">Jean Piaget</a>.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">St learn by constructing or making, it provide experience and satisfactory of achieve something, an artifact, proof tha learning has taken place….meaningful learning</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Each ppl should learn extra 3-4 languages</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/eelinhui/calculator-information-kit-bukit-panjang-primary-mathematics-curriculu"><span style="color: white;">The introduction of calculators aims to</span></a><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt -6pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">achieve a better balance between emphasis on computational skills and problem solving skills in teaching and learning and in assessment ; </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Widen the repertoire of teaching and learning approaches to facilitate the use of investigations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and problems in authentic situations (provide more teaching methods, eg: use calculator to check answer); and </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Help students, particularly those with difficulty learning mathematics, develop greater confidence in doing mathematics. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 12pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt 18pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 18.0pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The use of calculators created a computational advantage and more often resulted in the selection of a proper approach to a solution in problem solving. Students in elementary schools who used </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">calculators possessed better attitudes and had </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">better self-concepts in mathematics . </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 24pt 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There were significant differences in problem solving , computation , and conceptual understanding , favouring students who used calculators to those who did not. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
</div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-23974948749911346462011-03-03T09:23:00.000-08:002011-03-06T02:29:03.153-08:00Literature Review<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;">Based on <a href="http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ802711.pdf"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Towards a Constructivist Pedagogy for Year 12 Mathematics by Ian Sheppard</span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="background-color: black; color: #f9cb9c;">Write a summary of the article in not more than 500 words;</span></em></span></div>This article was written by Ian Sheppard, an Australian teacher who has taught mathematics for 30 years. In 2004, he started working in a new school where he focused on the Year 12 (age 16-17) mathematics courses. He used constructivist and inquiry based approaches to handle his class. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheppard worked at Australian Science and Mathematics School (ASMS), with support and encouragement from the mathematics staff. ASMS caters final 3 years of schooling before entry into higher education, designed for highly collaborative, interactive and student-directed teaching and learning. Majority of students comes from local area with wide variety of abilities and aspirations. The school provides strong emphasis on the disciplines of science and mathematics, lifelong learning, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>relevance of science and mathematics to the world’s future, interconnectedness of knowledge and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>importance of human communication in all its forms.</span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheppard’s student majority were from MAT (Mathematics and Abstract Thinking) course, had learnt mathematics using constructivist and inquiry-based approach in their Year 10 and 11. Though Year 12 mathematics course is exam-based, Sheppard decide to let the students continue learning under the same approach. The learner is responsible for their own learning. He desire to teach for understanding, rather than for algorithmic proficiency. He rejected to teach using textbook approach. Sheppard want more students to enjoy what they were doing, not just gain a sense of achievement in being able to do mathematics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The course was centered on core investigations. The worksheets presented problems embedded in conversation or story line. They covered key ideas outlined in the curriculum statement, extensions for further investigations was provided for interested students or who aspiring to an ‘A’. The materials were written in such a way that students can work by themselves, anytime and anywhere. In scheduled class, students usually worked in groups with teacher support. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After complete the core investigation, students make an entry in their notebook, creating their own text book which was permitted in all tests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Communication of mathematics is promoted by presentation and sharing of findings, through Unseen Orals and Public Presentation Pieces (PPP). The audience consisted of teacher and other groups who had concentrated on different problems. Students demonstrated high level of engagement. A quiz will be conducted each week to allow students to check their understanding and ability to apply the concepts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During the course, teacher acts more as a facilitator rather than a broadcaster of knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teacher spends very little time talking to whole group, but to individual or small group, responding to the students’ concern. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the students were able to learn well. Some were largely independent, using peer support to clarify and develop understanding while others relied more extensively in staff for directional and support. The classroom atmosphere was collaborative and informal.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Through this course, students increasingly learn independently. Learning occurs as part of a process of constructing knowledge; learners communicate their questions, intuitions, conjectures, reasons, explanation and ideas. Moreover, learning involves developing knowledge, skills and dispositions to think and act in ways which determined by individual effort, the setting of personal goals and self awareness.</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Discuss, in not more than 500 words, </span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="color: #fff2cc;">(i)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how the learning theory shapes your understanding of how students learn mathematics;</span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><em><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(ii)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if there are, in your understanding, learning theories </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">that are especially relevant to the teaching and learning of math?</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Though many teachers doubt constructivist approach is efficient enough in covering a set syllabus, but with much effort, we will manage to do it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">It is important that students enjoy learning mathematic and make it their responsibility. This will encourage the development of lifelong learners. Teacher should allow space for individual approaches to learning, as different students learn at different ways and rates. Teacher should be flexible to develop a cooperative classroom culture. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">In a conducive and encouraging environment, most students are able to learn effectively, though some might relied on facilitator for direction and support. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Many students may not fully understand at first time, as it takes time for them to modify existing schema. Hence they should be allowed time to use multiple approaches for understanding. Drill and practice is rather meaningless if students cannot understand what there was doing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Students construct their own understanding; teacher cannot feed them with information. It is essential for students to understand key ideas; the rest will follows much more easily. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Students can learn mathematics as part of a process of constructing knowledge. By solving </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">problem where the mathematics is presented implicitly, students develop their understanding of the mathematics. By solving problem students reflect upon what they had learned. Also, students will be able to direct their learning according to their interest, capability, goals and current workload. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Teacher understands students more than the curriculum or textbook do. So, curriculum documents and textbook just provide the guidance for designing materials and learning opportunities. Teacher should arrange curriculum according to the development of students.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Creating note book help students to reflect on mathematics and focus on the underlying principles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Students should learn in group, as it can contribute to the collaborative climate of the classes. The collaborative climate can be further enhanced by the team teaching approach. The extensive use of group work encourages collaboration and the communication of questions, intuitions, conjectures, reasons, explanations and ideas. The learning is refined as students freely discuss their ideas and argue a case until they come to a shared understanding.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Students enjoy working with teacher rather than working for the teaching. In the shared classroom, teacher should act as a facilitator instead of a transmitter of understanding. Before students able to work independently, teacher should stay beside them to model their learning.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"></div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-84061899401692282102011-03-03T00:58:00.000-08:002011-04-11T00:02:56.873-07:00important principles that guide the work of a CONSTRUCTIVIST teacher<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Calibri;">encourage and accept student <b>autonomy</b> and <b>initiative</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Encourage students to be responsible on their learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Allow student responses to drive lessons, shift instructional strategies, and alter content.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Tailor their teaching strategies to student responses, create the learning experience that is open to new directions depending upon the needs of the student as the learning progresses</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: yellow;">inquire about students' <b>understanding</b>s of concepts before </span><span style="color: yellow;">start activity</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">new knowledge must be built on previous knowledge and experience</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">guided students from basic to deeper levels of understanding through questions and encouragement <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so that they can learn from the incorporation of their experiences</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: magenta;">Provide learning environments such as <b>real-world</b> settings or case-based learning instead of predetermined sequences of instruction.</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Learning must start with the issues around which students are actively trying to construct meaning. Example, in teaching volume and area, we must show the object. When teaching probability, we must let students explore where it will be used.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Avoid oversimplification and should represent the complexity of the real world. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Use raw data and primary sources along with manipulative, interactive, and physical materials. For example, when teaching statistics, can collect students information rather than use tables created from nowhere.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Calibri;">encourage students to engage in <b>dialogue</b> both with the teacher and with one another.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Example: Discussion, research project, field trip, group activity. Each member of class should be able to share their opinion with other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Create a discourse of comfort wherein all ideas can be considered and understood and the students then feel safe about challenging other hypotheses, defending their own, and supporting real-world situations with abstract supporting data</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Calibri;">encourage student inquiry by asking <b>thoughtful</b>, open-ended <b>questions </b>and encouraging students to ask questions of each other.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Instead of telling, the teacher must begin asking. Instead of answering questions that only align with their curriculum, teacher must make it so that the student comes to the conclusions on their own instead of being told. Teachers must challenge the student by making them effective critical thinkers and not being merely a "teacher" but also a mentor, a consultant, and a coach.</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Open-ended questions and critical thinking encourage students to seek more than just a simple response or basic facts and incorporate the justification and defense of their organized thoughts. For example, question like ‘Define a triangle’ should be asked instead of ‘How many sides does a triangle has?’</span></div><div style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Socratic learning is suggested as the best method of communication in this theoretical framework, as it allows the teacher to actively note any study skills the learner verbalizes, their progression, their frustrations, and form a rubric of their current learning state based on the dialogue. Any teacher lesson plans, teacher worksheets, or resources should in fact be constantly building the learner's knowledge in a spiral manner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: lime;">Support <b>collaborative</b> construction of knowledge through social negotiation, not competition among learners for recognition.</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Students should support each other in learning for the sake of knowing, not learning to get grades or recognition.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Calibri;">seek <b>elaboration</b> of students' initial responses.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The first is discovering and maintaining an individual's intellectual identity. This forces students to support their own theories, in essence taking responsibility for their words and respecting those of others</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">students are encouraged to think and explain their reasoning instead of memorizing and reciting facts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">engage students in experiences that might engender <b>contradictions</b> to their initial hypotheses and then encourage discussion.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Example, let students to explore whether median is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>equal or not equal to mod or mean and the reason.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Calibri;">provide a <b>waiting tim</b>e after posing questions and for students to construct relationships and create metaphors.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Time is needed to process and reflect the question, also to analyze the requirement and choose the best response, if possible along with explanation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 18.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Wingdings 2'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Wingdings 2';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">—<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #e06666;">nurture students' natural </span><b><span style="color: #e06666;">curiosity</span> </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Though curiosity may kill a cat, without it, one cannot learn well. Curiousity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>create the spirit of learning. For example, let students why the shortest distance between two points on Earth surface is using Great Circle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Young children and scientists have much in common. Both are interested in a wide variety of objects and events in the world around them. Both are interested in, and attempt to make sense of, how and why things behave as they do. (Osborne & Freyberg 1985, p.1)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some strategies for teacher include having students <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">working together</span></b> and aiding to answer one another's questions. Another strategy includes designating one student as the <span style="color: #f6b26b;">"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expert</b>"</span> on a subject and having them teach the class. Finally, allowing students to work in groups or pairs and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">research controversia</b>l topics which they must then present to the class.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Working in groups, learners <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">support</span></b> each other’s understanding as they articulate their observations, ideas, questions and hypotheses. Working in groups help students learn <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">social interaction skills</span></b> they will need later in life. Students will learn to value each others input and opinions.</span></span></div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-12639265574418475132011-02-28T22:02:00.001-08:002011-02-28T22:03:57.683-08:00week 8 Pschology mathe class notes<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">theory is not really important but why we learn it.......<br />
how does it relate to us<br />
thri is not important unless it is useful to us<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">final exam.....<br />
4 questions..12..12..12..14..answer all.....1-3 ab.....4abc<br />
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t greet st b4 start....<br />
share recent things with st.....<br />
create some relationship...<br />
help dr shahul wife is going to be well soon...<br />
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the topic is relevant.....how to u make it relavant to<br />
them.....connect of their daily life....<br />
IPT....input.....see, hear, smell, touch,......sight n hearing use<br />
most.....therefor we must adjust our teaching so that we use it the<br />
most n safe....ok.....<br />
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bila buat presentation.....must link so that ppl is interested...<br />
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constructivism...u construct knowledge wat u already know n new knowledge....<br />
if u not have enuf knowledge, might construct knowledge not<br />
right......might want to test and improve....<br />
<br />
shud convince friend that we must noe it now....<br />
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children construct knowledge....dun have to tell children how to play....<br />
just give them the toy n observe.....they will be able to<br />
play....though maybe they make a few mistake...<br />
but they will realize....<br />
<br />
kita main====explore...<br />
<br />
learning can take place anytime....<br />
but active.....st do something....& learn<br />
<br />
t just guide....<br />
bcs first st will not learn about it.....we have a <span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1298953994_1">time constraint</span></span><br />
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ex.....give 2 groups same article...when present.... different ideas<br />
and approaches come in.....as long as what they say make sense....this<br />
is what constructivism matter<br />
<br />
i would say not all the constructivism is useful in all cases, we need to modify it to fit to our class.....<br />
<br />
put st into groups, the more ppl, the more different ideas they will be exposed to must mayb less interaction….something tat t must think about</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">subtraction is not easy to teach, especially when it involve negative…negative is some number less than zero, something that we lack of, concept of basement, temperature, sea level, dropping level</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">to teach constructivism, first to let them experience it….; to teach the importance of friends or social interaction, put them into solo camp (like in outbound school), let them experience loneliness, let them explain wat they feel</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">encourage st to say, dun critic if they are wrong, but GUIDE them to correct route</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">computer games, st know better, they curious, they have experience than teacher…their previous experience is stronger</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">teacher must be energetic, enthusiasm…; have st to prepare b4 class if want an effective constructivism class</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">teacher must be able to identify 3 groups of st ability: low, average, and high, though lesson plan is build for average, must consider the low and high achiever, remedial class for low, extra or challenging problem for hign to be solve</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;">if only school exam….then must have the accountability</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">must tell students : learning is the resposibility of the learner<br />
i cannot learn for u n sit for the exam for u....<br />
then is the time they play a bigger role in learning...<br />
<br />
from time to time u assess ur st...they learn how much they learn n<br />
will work harder.....<br />
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constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition (learning) is the result of ''mental<br />
construction''<br />
<br />
st learn by fitting new into together with what they already know. learning is affected by the context in which an idea is taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes.<br />
<br />
for those who belief we learn today, will go back and read more about it<br />
</span><a href="http://www.connectionscharterschool.org/constructivism.htm....12" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1298953994_2" style="color: white;">http://www.connectionscharterschool.org/constructivism.htm....12</span></span></a><br />
<span style="color: white;">principles (NI in exam)<br />
<br />
not angry too much...big challenge to get them process only what u r telling<br />
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it does not mean looking at u or not==listening to u<br />
<br />
cannot just focusing on the mind....but is the whole body.....<br />
in the same room is not equal to share the same environment</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">Constructivism, the cognitive theory, was invented by Jean Piaget. His idea was that knowledge is constructed by the learner. The learner must consciously think about trying to derive meaning, and through that effort, meaning is constructed through the knowledge structures. Piaget liked to emphasize learning through play, but the basic cognitive theory of constructivism certainly supports learning through lecture -- as long as that basic construction of meaning takes place.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: white;">Constructionism is more of an educational method which is based on the constructivist learning theory. Constructionism, invented by Seymour Papert who was a student of Piaget's, says that learning occurs "most felicitously" when constructing a public artifact "whether a sand castle on the beach or a theory of the universe.“ Seymour does lean toward the constructivist learning philosophy in his writings, where he talks about the difficulty of conveying a complex concept when the reader is going to construct their own meaning. In general, though, his claim is more about method. He believes that students will be more deeply involved in their learning if they are constructing something that others will see, critique, and perhaps use. Through that construction, students will face complex issues, and they will make the effort to problem-solve and learn because they are motivated by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">construction</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">While I was trying to find out ‘’why teachwe always want to tell everything’’, I suft through this page, ‘’best teacher ever’’, I think I will keep this link so that I can come back and read again in future….http://www.etni.org.il/bestteacherever.htm</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">A page with quates about teacher: </span><a href="http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.quotegarden.com/teachers.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">Tips of becoming a teacher: </span><a href="http://www.adprima.com/tipson.htm"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.adprima.com/tipson.htm</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">But I still cannot find the reasons why teacher tend to explain everything to students (students are able to and should learn by themselves), I will try to figure this by myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually the first thought was the teacher want to show that he knows everything. Other reasons might be he want to share his knowledge with students (sharing is caring); he do not want the students to lack of single detail; he hope students really understand…</span></div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-65535344029752750052011-02-27T07:44:00.000-08:002011-02-27T07:50:35.212-08:00ConStrucTiViSm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmABxMJwrp9QjYS7Y3LA12pXSml8jTx6IQvONpydYQ6T1WLC5QQA7RWZF5V8wiGe-JW4awcs60ukQ21F1LM5flBQ9KLm0yB7Ie-xvVkPiB9lZNOsg_6-b5U-v-MyUvVC33dLqV7bPV1nw/s1600/Slide1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmABxMJwrp9QjYS7Y3LA12pXSml8jTx6IQvONpydYQ6T1WLC5QQA7RWZF5V8wiGe-JW4awcs60ukQ21F1LM5flBQ9KLm0yB7Ie-xvVkPiB9lZNOsg_6-b5U-v-MyUvVC33dLqV7bPV1nw/s640/Slide1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1<sup>st</sup> and foremost, we must get students <span style="color: yellow;">attention.</span> If students do not pay attention, what teacher teacher will go into left ear and come out from right ear. . It takes about eight seconds of intense focus to process a piece of information into memory. Therefore, we need to get students attention and engage students in the learning, for example through set induction.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then, it would be an advance if students know what they will be learning. Before going into topic, teacher can give an <span style="background-color: black; color: red;">introduction </span>of what is going to be learnt. Hence, students can pay more attention to the main theories and put aside other less important things. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In order to remember a concepts efficiently, we should <span style="color: lime;">understand</span> about it. Mathematics is not like history (event history has causes and effects), students ought to understand why they need to do this, is this the only way, what they need to do and so on. For more complex material, focus on understanding basic ideas rather than memorizing isolated details.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We must construct our new knowledge based on previous knowledge. Giving example(s) is one of the good ways of doing so. By <span style="color: red;">linking</span> true life example with the concept, students will remember more easily. Also, they are going to appreciate the concepts as something useful rather than a piece of theory.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There are 2 types of <span style="color: yellow;">connection</span>, intraconnection and interconnection. For example, while teaching probability, we make intraconnection with topic such as ratio, fraction and percentage; interconnection with subject biology such as calculating probability of getting a girl or a boy in one pregnancy. Not only that we can ease the learning of new concepts, we can recall and recap what we learn in the past.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Based on behaviorism and information processing theory, <span style="color: lime;">repetition</span> helps build information and reaction. Hence, teacher can give exercise and test in order to help students do revision. Furthermore, one can have an assessment of what had remembered. Teacher had students to jot down all the points that can remember (without refer to the notes), if possible have a mind map, then, review the original notes quickly and compare both sets. Through this, we can check what we had mastered and what have not, thus further action can be taken to improve them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 140.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: red;">Review or recall</span> is a type of repetition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of each lessons, teacher should have a short recview session, to summarize what students had learn that day. Teacher could invited students to summarize the lesson that day, instead of doing it herself. On the next class, a recall session could be done to recall what had been learn in previous class. What researchers call “spaced rehearsal” is more effective than “cramming.” If we are able to “over-learn” information so that recalling it becomes second nature, so much the better.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 140.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In two way communication class, <span style="color: yellow;">discussion</span> is very much encouraged, whether it is a whole class discussion or a group discussion. <span style="color: black;">Speaking about what we have learned will implant it more deeply in the memory center of the brain making it easier to remember when the need arises. Discussion is also a way of interpreting information in our own way. Discussion helps us to check our understanding, compare with others and make collaboration. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Though human brain is one of greatest creation of God, we are not supercomputer. We do forget. Hence, in order to remember we might forget, we should <span style="color: lime;">take notes</span> of what we learn, using both words and pictures, manually or using electronic devices. In addition, we can highlight the main point to mark important points. In case of we really forget, visualization creates strong connection for recalling the material. The physical act of rewriting information can help imprint it onto your brain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 140.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: cyan;">Read out loud</span>, this is what we had done since we start learning, but some of us has stop doing it. For some, read out can implant information in our mind more easily.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We cannot learn efficiently with an exhausted mind. Teacher could not blame students for not learning, she should understand why they are not learning. Teacher should schedule a <span style="color: yellow;">brief rest</span> period after each learning session for optimum retention. The optimal learning session is around 30 minutes, after that, students should be allowed to have a break to relax and to let the information ‘sink in’. During this period, teacher can refresh her mind also, besides responds to some students’ questions or problems.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Give students some <span style="color: red;">brain games</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. Playing brain games keeps the brain sharp. Example, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, creating mnemonic and other challenging tasks help to remember what you are learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Imagine now you are try to make sense of the complicated concept of trigonometry equation, you are just one last steps from the final solution, suddenly, ‘Shake, shake and shake shake your heart’, it was handset ringtone!!! What would you feel? Somemore, it is the teacher mobile phone. Could you still concentrate on the learning. We need a <span style="color: red;">conducive</span> and distraction free <span style="color: red;">environment</span> for learning. During class, teacher and students must disconnect from communication devices, to make sure the class is not distracted and interrupted. Some cl<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">assical </span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423132615.htm"><span style="color: #235c90; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">music</span></a> in the background helps many students relax and have better focus, thus helping to retain more of what they are learning. In addition, routine and predictable lesson also send signals to the body to relax and be open to learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Allow students to involve as <span style="color: cyan;">many sense</span> as possible in learning and tailor information acquisition to their learning style. Most people are visual learners; they learn best by reading or otherwise seeing what it is they have to know. But some are auditory learners who learn better by listening. They might benefit by recording information they need and listening to it until they remember it. So, teacher should not feel awkward if students try to record the class.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Give encouragement but not stress. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If students able to <span style="color: #235c90;">think positively</span> about the success of understanding and remembering what they learn rather than thinking about the failure becoming a successful learner, they will be more likely to remember and do well. Terrible feelings actually hampers the ability of the brain to remember, while positive mental feedback sets up an expectation of success.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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based on:<br />
<a href="http://helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm">http://helpguide.org/life/improving_memory.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-You-Train-Your-Memory-to-Retain-100-Percent?&id=985370">http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-You-Train-Your-Memory-to-Retain-100-Percent?&id=985370</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4705170_remember-what-read.html">http://www.ehow.com/how_4705170_remember-what-read.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2010/30-tiny-tips-to-remember-what-you-read/">http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2010/30-tiny-tips-to-remember-what-you-read/</a><br />
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Based on reading of the information processing theory and its effect on children and learnin at<br />
<a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1678590-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_6"><span style="color: #a85a00;">http://www.helium.com/items/1678590-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Most of the concepts in the article has been discussed in Monday class, so i would just write what i think is useful.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The information processing theory is an interesting theory that discusses how a person processes information as a child and how the child's processing develops as the child ages; environment and heredity can influence information processing and the intelligence of a person.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Maybe due to good previous experience, whenever I read something, I want to know what I would gain from reading it. Here it is, ‘In order to be an effective and understanding teacher it is important to understand how information is processed by the mysterious mind.’ It is relevant because teacher's can plan lessons that are structured in accordance with the developmental needs of the students. If a child is not developing at a normal rate, a teacher will be more aware of this problem.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Attention is causes information to move from the sensory register to the working memory (or short term memory) while rehearsal, organization and elaboration cause information to move from the working memory into long-term memory. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The development of abilities and cognitive processes occurs steadily and gradually through trends, we cannot force children to learn in advance. </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Environment and heredity are both factors that can influence intelligence and the processing of information. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white;">One of the lines that I like most in this article is ‘‘the child is born with freewill and free thought, and the child can overcome most influences of environment and heredity if the child chooses to’’. There is no reason that one cannot improve if he try very hard, and make the environment or people around him an useful resource. Just as the sayings, there is no ugly woman, only lazy woman.<span style="background: silver; mso-highlight: silver;"></span></span></span></span></div>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-6954556095417470752011-02-23T06:30:00.000-08:002011-02-23T06:30:45.404-08:00Constructivismnext week, we are going to discuss on Constructivism<br />
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here is something that you can read to start from ; )<br />
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<h2>Constructivism <span style="font-size: x-small;">(from </span><a href="http://www.funderstanding.com/content/constructivism"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.funderstanding.com/content/constructivism</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span></h2><strong>Definition</strong><br />
Constructivism is a philosophy of learning founded on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences, we construct our own understanding of the world we live in. Each of us generates our own “rules” and “mental models,” which we use to make sense of our experiences. Learning, therefore, is simply the process of adjusting our mental models to accommodate new experiences.<br />
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<strong>Discussion</strong><br />
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There are several guiding principles of constructivism:<br />
<ol><li>Learning is a search for meaning. Therefore, learning must start with the issues around which students are actively trying to construct meaning. </li>
<li>Meaning requires understanding <strong>wholes</strong> as well as parts. And parts must be understood in the context of wholes. Therefore, the learning process focuses on primary concepts, not isolated facts. </li>
<li>In order to teach well, we must understand the mental models that students use to perceive the world and the assumptions they make to support those models. </li>
<li>The purpose of learning is for an individual to construct his or her own meaning, not just memorize the “right” answers and regurgitate someone else’s meaning. Since education is inherently interdisciplinary, the only valuable way to measure learning is to make the assessment part of the learning process, ensuring it provides students with information on the quality of their learning. </li>
</ol><strong>How Constructivism Impacts Learning</strong><br />
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<em><span style="color: yellow;">Curriculum</span></em>–Constructivism calls for the elimination of a standardized curriculum. Instead, it promotes using curricula customized to the students’ prior knowledge. Also, it emphasizes hands-on problem solving.<br />
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<em><span style="color: yellow;">Instruction</span></em>–Under the theory of constructivism, educators focus on making connections between facts and fostering new understanding in students. Instructors tailor their teaching strategies to student responses and encourage students to analyze, interpret, and predict information. Teachers also rely heavily on open-ended questions and promote extensive dialogue among students.<br />
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<em><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0" style="color: yellow;">Assessment</span></em><span class="goog_qs-tidbit goog_qs-tidbit-0">–Constructivism calls for the elimination of grades and standardized testing. Instead, assessment becomes part of the learning process so that</span> students play a larger role in judging their own progress.<br />
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if you want to know advantage and disadvantages of adopting constructivist approach, slides in the link below is a good choice (you need to click ''play'' ''pause'' to move from slide to slide)<br />
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<a href="http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/21827/Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-Adopting-the-Constructivist-Approach">http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/21827/Advantages-and-Disadvantages-of-Adopting-the-Constructivist-Approach</a><br />
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hope this could give you some idea about constructivism <strike>so that you would not come into the class empty minded as i always do, </strike>as it say we need learn actively, and new info must be linked to prior knowledge for learning.yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-91254879187862858522011-02-21T00:34:00.000-08:002011-02-21T00:34:40.907-08:00week 7 class noteoooot o....it is 7th week liao....wat had u done?what had u not done yet?<br />
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use more English, write more share with others....<br />
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<a href="http://shatelier.blogspot.com/2011/02/presentation-2.html" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_0">http://shatelier.blogspot.com/2011/02/presentation-2.html</span></a><br />
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info processes theory....<br />
model... explain how human mind receive, store and use....= computer....<br />
it needs input (5 senses organ collect it)<br />
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sensory register.....input 5 stimuli from environment...<br />
2 types: iconic....receive visual.can hold about 1 sec and transfer to<br />
other,.....<br />
acoustic....sound....hold about 4 sec b4 stimuli disapear....<br />
if we not pay attention, will lose; if pay, it go to <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_1">short term memory</span>....<br />
maybe have develop other strategy so that other would not miss it...so<br />
we repeat it....or leave it there for the st to see & connect....<br />
what ever that is lost the first seconds...will lost forever....<br />
it is up to the t to link more than just saying it....<br />
must have other strategy to link it....<br />
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short term memory <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_2">working memory</span>.....<br />
store 20-30 seconds<br />
to remember longer, must be rehearsal or repeat....<br />
if not process, it will b forgotten....<br />
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repetition...used frequent easy to remember.....memorizing formula or<br />
tables... phone number & names that repeat alway...song tat keep on<br />
playing will be memorized....revise=repeat<br />
encoding...link new info with something that is remembered.....make<br />
connection of new knowledge to real life....how is it relevance...<br />
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long term memory....unlimited capacity...<br />
permanent store....<br />
not all info in long term can recall, environment cues help someone to<br />
recall....<br />
what ever is in long term, is there....just need to give some cue...<br />
7-9 items at the same time...<br />
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semantic memory....facts....family names<br />
episodic...specific event....date of birth<br />
procedural....process of doing something....how to solve trigo...how<br />
to do long division....the process name might not be remember...but<br />
the process...<br />
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<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_3">cognitive model</span>...<br />
perception....from gestalt theory....ability to take info from senses....<br />
dominant senses (used most often) vision and hearing....audio and video....<br />
how to use taste....sometimes it is poisons....reason why we use<br />
dominant senses...<br />
touch....maybe it is hot....<br />
depend on how we look...concentrate on white; back....<br />
the perception can be reserved, mental construct of the moind...<br />
internal mental word can differn from external physical world-how we<br />
perceive it to be....<br />
ex, if we looked at the moon, we think it is beautiful....<br />
ex, if we show this to st, they see something else....& dun get angry<br />
about it,,,,<br />
up to u to help st to help what or how can they see...<br />
st have their own perception about things....<br />
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comprehension....describe the complete reading process from recognize<br />
word intill comstruct a represenntatopn of the meaning....<br />
when st read the question or text, they will be able to catch the meaning<br />
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problem solving....problem finding and problem shaping<br />
polya 4 steps; Example: trial and error (factoring <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_4">quadratic equation</span>,<br />
many discovery...in the process we learn more and more), hypothesis<br />
testing, research<br />
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reasoning....<br />
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implication.....<br />
get st attention.....set induction.....set induction can be<br />
anything...just engage everyone in the conversion....eg....ehat is the<br />
VC has to say to canclel one class......<br />
main purpose......get st attention...something that related or not....<br />
eg whole number.....wat is the date today, 21, feb, 2011......<br />
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help st to separate essectial and non-essectialat the end of this<br />
clas....what we are going to learn today....<br />
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make connection....previous knowledge<br />
giving example...is relate to what is already know....<br />
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repetiion...exercise...activity...game....test....make use of info....<br />
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how are you do to help st remember or reatin a new piece of info<br />
things learn???? do blogging.....<br />
(explain....example....connection....repeat....challenge....games...link....)<br />
& email to inform dr about it....<br />
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<a href="http://www.helium.com/knowledge/304044-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_5">http://www.helium.com/knowledge/304044-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.helium.com/items/1678590-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1298276472_6">http://www.helium.com/items/1678590-the-information-processing-theory-and-its-effect-on-children-and-learning</span></a><br />
read first 2 pages....<br />
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if hvae time,,,try to look up as mnemonics....yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-63271663572789225932011-02-16T23:24:00.000-08:002011-02-16T23:32:31.282-08:00I witnessed A Car Accident todaywhile i was still thinking wat should i put on to my blog, i witnessed a car accident in front of me....<br />
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tired and hungry...<br />
i was waiting for bus outside the Intan gate...<br />
it is 1:10 plus, bus is taking longer than usual to come....<br />
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car comes and go....<br />
i was thinking wat kind of car would turn into the junction, to Mahsa College and UM...<br />
it is lunch hour, school end time....<br />
lots of car...<br />
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there where 2 motors in try to make U-turn....<br />
then from UM hospital, traffic light must had just change, lots of car heading to Jaya 1 direction....<br />
then one selfish car, C1, (i think is silver wira) try to take the right turn into Jalan Intan, though it was in the left side lane....<br />
but the motors or some car were blocking the roads, so C1 end up in the center of 2 roads....<br />
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the car behind it must stop <span style="background-color: black;">immediately behind C1, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">however some car could nott make it....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">i think one or 2 cars behind C1, C2 stop, followed by C3.(myvi)..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">however, C4 (proton something) did not manage to stop, C4 bumped into C3, C3 bumped into C2....</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">i was just beside C4, heard 2 bump sounds.....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">the front side of C4 dented in around 20cm, water or oil come down from its engine....</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">my first though was, will the car explode (i watch too much dramas with explode cars)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">so i move nearer to two girls, G1 and G2...</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">luckily nobody was hurt...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">passenges of C3 and C4 came out...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">at first i thought they going to fight or discuss.....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">luckily they seems to be collegues.....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">C1 was nowhere in sight anymore...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">C2 may had stop but also gone later</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">after a few minutes, they push C4 to the side (the car cannot be started any more)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">the owner and passengers of C3 and C4 get contacts from the two girls,just in case of police report....</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">after few minutes, bus finally here, the two girls and I took the bus and left</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">(the girls are 1st yr, sc fac students, 7th college drummer; one car owner is UM grad) </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">feeling sorry for the car owner, to have car accidents, some more in the last day of CNY....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">will they get insurans to pay for the repair???</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">later when i think back....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">if the car really explode,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">with the distance, i might still get hurt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">so, i must go farer than what i did....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">but, should give a helping hand to those who meet accident???</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">especially in front of us....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">am i phobia of taking car in future???....no</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">do i have an unfriendly or cold face?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">why the they do not ask for my contacts?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">can i be a friendly teacher then?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">how can i improve?</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">when i was in bus....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">i must say that i really proud of my quick thinking....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">last time, when my dad & I was on the way back to Johor for CNY,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">we were also near to bumped into a lorry that suddenly come out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">i still have the time to think....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">what i thought that time was,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">Would i have my CNY in hospital?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">My mum will really be sad if both my dad & I is injured...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">luckily my dad managed to control the car well....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">i admired his driving skill, but i really worry when he drive very-very fast & like to follwed car in front very close</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">what should we do when we meet accidents???</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">who should teach us general knowledge???</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/React-After-a-Car-Accident">http://www.wikihow.com/React-After-a-Car-Accident</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/React-when-You-Witness-a-Crash">http://www.wikihow.com/React-when-You-Witness-a-Crash</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5574376_react-after-car-accident.html">http://www.ehow.com/how_5574376_react-after-car-accident.html</a>yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-19575575023624985092011-02-10T19:17:00.000-08:002011-02-10T19:17:15.852-08:00Week 5 reflection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9yhXjJVFA14?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
in the 1st <span style="background-color: black;">stage <span style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;">sensorimoto</span>r<span style="color: yellow;"></span><span style="color: yellow;"></span> </span>stage</span> (0 to</span> start talking), baby cannot understand language yet, so he do not smile as his father try to made him<br />
however, when his father touch him, he smiles<br />
in this stages, children show response using 5 sense, namely, see, hear, smell, touch & taste...<br />
baby hear & response to sound but do not show the desire response as he do not understand the meaning yet<br />
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in 2nd stage <span style="color: yellow;">pre-</span><span style="color: yellow;">operational stage</span> (2-7 ages) children begin to associate symbol (or words) with objects, the girl most probably likes to eat Peas and Toasts & she can associate them well the name of the her favourite food<br />
also, as the child sensory motor skill is developed now, she can help doing light house chores<br />
then, child this age is egocentric, they take themselves as the center of universe and hard to take viewpoint of others<br />
child at this age still cannot conserve or use logical thinking<br />
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in 3rd stage <span style="color: yellow;">concrete operational</span> (7-11 ages), child has deeper understanding things, he is able to understand abstract and capable of reasoning (he is able to reasons the event), but with the practical aids, for example in this case the terms on the white board<br />
child at this age is able to classify objects (or event) to several features and order them in series along a single dimension (such as time)<br />
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in the fourth and last stage, <span style="color: yellow;">formal operational stage</span> (ages 12 onward), teenagers have full reasoning capacity and can consider multiple viewpoint<br />
teenagers now have develop abstract thought and can easily conserve and think logically in their mind<br />
they becomes concerned with the hypothetical , the future, and ideological problems<br />
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What is the exercise mathematics learning stages?<br />
in my opinion, the exercise require us to achieve <span style="color: red;">formal operational stage</span> in order to solve it<br />
we need to analyze the sequence, consider different possible alternative and choose the best solution<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"> </span></span></span><br />
by the way, i always think Piaget is a she, as his name "PIJ" sounded like Jane ; )yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-84330303658663927852011-02-10T01:11:00.000-08:002011-02-10T01:11:40.890-08:00my favourite semthis sem is certainly my most relax and happy semester in UM so far....<br />
<br />
this morning, while walk in to UM from the little gate at Intan Gate, <br />
i enjoy the peacefulness and the greenery scene before my eyes...<br />
green trees, wind, & i know there will be a fun lecture waiting for me...<br />
when i refresh back wat i go through this morning, <br />
it was really a great time...<br />
<br />
i wake up as the light of the sun come through the window (not by the clock)<br />
then i take bath (without need to queue)<br />
i have breakfast tha i cooked (not as decided by mak cik anymore)<br />
i sit down & chat with my housemates<br />
oops.....suddenly i realize that i may be late...<br />
& get ready to class...<br />
though i miss a bus, a second just manage to catch my a minute later....<br />
within 15 minutes, i was in UM<br />
place that i had been for last 3 years...<br />
<br />
wat i did yesterday?<br />
watching dramas online,<br />
reading some (interesting but not academic) booK<br />
cooking & eating...<br />
retreat in the living room in afternoon (as my room is as hot as oven) and watch TV<br />
then feel guilty & start to do assignment (hope i manage to finish all in time)<br />
really happy and enjoying<br />
<br />
i m really blessed...<br />
thx for my parents, <br />
thx my teachers,<br />
thx my friends,<br />
thx my coursemates,<br />
thx YOU,<br />
thx all the ppl around me..: )<br />
<br />
thx that i m going to be a teacher<br />
(there is any easy job in this world)<br />
i will have plenty of time to enjoy myself<br />
i will the accompanyment of young ppl all the time<br />
i will have the oppurtunity to learn my whole life (learning keep us young ; ) )<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/1n_1nOFTx5E/0.jpg"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1n_1nOFTx5E&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1n_1nOFTx5E&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>i like this songs...Thank You for The Music<br />
though i m not singing....<br />
i would like to THANK YOUyeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-15538499826174269842011-02-07T05:07:00.000-08:002011-02-07T05:07:51.998-08:00week 5 psiko math classbehaviorism to cognitivism<br />
today class slides:<br />
<a href="http://dawnlikechickenrice.blogspot.com/2011/02/5th-week-presentation.html" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_1">http://dawnlikechickenrice.blogspot.com/2011/02/5th-week-presentation.html</span></a><br />
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main player...piaget...piaget four stages commercial<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYQH_T2FWM" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_2">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYQH_T2FWM</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGpgsqXVYM&feature=related" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_3">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGpgsqXVYM&feature=related</span></a><br />
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stages, implication<br />
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discover rather than created the theories<br />
as he watch the children....<br />
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stage1sensorimotor...recognize the word<br />
stage 2-conservation...cant see....not exist....; cannot understand<br />
same volume (contend) but different height....<br />
do exp it or show picture? after transfer, which would have more<br />
water (children say see)<br />
child cannot say it is the same amount of water into....<br />
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stage 3: use concrete object to teach abstract math<br />
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when we graduate...some of the pupils are still at stage 3 (though<br />
there are in secondary school)<br />
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stage 4: more likely will be our pupils level<br />
they have to imagine themselves, how they are going to solve<br />
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scheme or schemata...<br />
develop through organization & adaptation...<br />
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4 type of schema<br />
cognitive structure....see a dog, all 4 legs are dogs....1 day see a<br />
goat, that is a dog....the child do not noe wat a goat is until he is<br />
shown....child learn from that how to differentiate dog & goat<br />
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symbolic...(at pass, need to see the apple to see it) now, can imagine<br />
apple when apple is not in front<br />
(must relate to example when we teach later)<br />
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organization....see the dog, dog has 4 leg, fury; see a goat, mum tell<br />
it is not a dog, a goat.....it has a beard....child reorganize....or<br />
based on sound of dog and goat<br />
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assimilation....first time see goat, see it is a dog<br />
accommodation...the goat is a goat....<br />
<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081018210743AAxXIve" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_4">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081018210743AAxXIve</span></a><br />
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cognitive dissonance...new info doesn't agree<br />
if child use <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_5">right brain</span> more...<br />
if child use left brain more...<br />
when prepare lesson, must consider it will not mix up...what brain see<br />
& eye see....<br />
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implication....<br />
4 main<br />
1...focus on process, not only product...<br />
teacher must understand meaning of process, why it must be like this,<br />
its rational...<br />
eg: secondary teacher feed us with the formula...<br />
but it must be important for them to now wat it means....<br />
integration....summation/ combining...of (discrete) part of graph...<br />
use strip close enough, curve become straight<br />
lime.....trapezium....ask how to cal area of trapezium<br />
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2.....self initiated, active learning...children centers....child<br />
discover the knowledge...t provide activities or post a real life<br />
question....eg for bearing...(angle bet teacher and safwah)<br />
problem solving...ask st how to do, how to solve...<br />
teach something new, must teach them to link to something knew....some<br />
know to unknown<br />
(though children and parents may think it is not real teach)<br />
t acknowledgement of st effort, give st support...(step by step guide)....<br />
prepare st of learn...to find knowledge...<br />
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3.....many t think can we can speed up....but sometime it cannot be speed up....<br />
premature teacher can b worst than no teaching at all<br />
better to take proper steps, than fed all together<br />
parents should understand <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_6">child development</span> too....<br />
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4....acceptance of individual developmental progress....include<br />
parents in...dun make comparison betw child & siblings...<br />
t break class into smaller group...different lesson plan for different class<br />
different example...abstract example in A class while concrete example<br />
in E class<br />
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st are there only physically....not mentally...or his soul has fly away...<br />
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view and write what u think about it....<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhXjJVFA14&feature=related" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1297082842_7">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhXjJVFA14&feature=related</span></a><br />
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the mathematics learning exercise is which stages.???yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332135485371203968.post-11199576341943413692011-01-26T07:29:00.000-08:002011-01-26T08:01:09.554-08:00why learning occurs but there is no change in behavior?<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bandura mentions <b>four conditions</b> that are necessary before an individual can successfully model the behavior of someone else:</span><br />
<ol><li><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Attention: the person must first <b>pay attention</b> to the model.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Retention: the observer must be able to <b>remember</b> the behavior that has been observed. One way of increasing this is using the technique of rehearsal.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Motor reproduction: the third condition is the <b>ability to replicate</b> the behavior that the model has just demonstrated. This means that the observer has to be able to replicate the action, which could be a problem with a learner who is not ready developmentally to replicate the action. For example, <b>little children</b> have difficulty doing complex physical motion.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Motivation: the final necessary ingredient for modeling to occur is <b>motivation</b>, learners must want <b>to demonstrate</b> what they have learned. Remember that since these four conditions vary among individuals, different people will reproduce the same behavior differently.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">above is some scripts i detrieved from <a href="http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~Lynda_abbot/Social.html">http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~Lynda_abbot/Social.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">i would give some new examples for each of the 4 conditions above: </span><br />
<ol><li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">Attention</span>--this condtions result in no behavioral changes most of the time, for example, when a teacher is showing steps to solve an algebraic problem, but the students do not pay attention to the details, then the students most probably will not be able to solve other algebraic problem.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">Retention</span>--we learn lotz of things everyday, sometimes we might forget it easily. For example, students may had learn the formula for finding roots of quadratic equatic, however, after sometime he forget about the formula & can not perform the operation.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">Motor reproduction</span>--example, a student may had learn that when people get drown, we need to save the person and maybe need to perform CPR, however, cannot perform CPR as he do not know how to swim or do not know the correct steps to perform CPR. Similarly, some students cannot find the area under the curve because they do not master the technique of integration.</span></span></li>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><li><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">Motivation</span>--through our education, and mass media, we all learn that we must keep our environment clean. But, some people, however, reluctant to do it, they will throw rubbish anywhere and refuse to pick up the trash on the floor. Similarly, some students have learn how to solve certain problem, but they refuse to do it as it do not bring much satisfaction to them.</span></span></li>
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<strong>Difference between Classical and Operant Conditioning</strong><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUztW1Ld6MscMUWpfBVYJBFavZY0YAa4y2OPaSbja811gByMvdZnAeUkh2kiQBJmmzPchaWVrY6ZpF5C4F299q7NJLQ5qEgoQREYGOasBuK0BuaQ7DKwEDceNQZXGOX-eFUOvC23ko3B0/s1600/operantvclassic.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUztW1Ld6MscMUWpfBVYJBFavZY0YAa4y2OPaSbja811gByMvdZnAeUkh2kiQBJmmzPchaWVrY6ZpF5C4F299q7NJLQ5qEgoQREYGOasBuK0BuaQ7DKwEDceNQZXGOX-eFUOvC23ko3B0/s400/operantvclassic.gif" width="400" /></a><br />
source: <a href="http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe14pages/basics_of_behaviorism.htm">http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe14pages/basics_of_behaviorism.htm</a><br />
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in my own example, it would be like this<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">classical conditioning: whenever a teacher want to ask (<span style="color: cyan;">uncondtitioned stimulus</span>) students do exercise, she would take out the workbook (<span style="color: cyan;">conditioned or neutral stimulus</span>), the students will do the exercise (<span style="color: cyan;">unconditioned respon</span>); after some repetition, once the student see the workbook (<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">conditioned stimulus</span>), they will start doing exercise (<span style="color: cyan;">conditioned respons</span>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">operant conditioning: students do the exercise given (<span style="color: cyan;">respons</span>), teacher give a compliment (<span style="color: cyan;">stimulus, reward</span>); after some time, students understand that if he want to get compliment (<span style="color: cyan;">conditioned stimulus, reward</span>), he must do the homework (<span style="color: cyan;">conditioned respons</span>) .</span><br />
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hope my thought is correct....<br />
if u think the other way other, pls don't shy to tell me : )yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03899161415873914779noreply@blogger.com0