In the Star Wars Universe, only the Jedis and the Siths can master the 'Force'. They can push/pull objects at a distance without even touching them (or having any contact with the objects).
How cool is that?
Can you identify which actions are pull/push (or both?) in the fight scenes above demonstrated by our cool Master Yoda? :)
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
May the Force Be With You :)
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ReplyDelete1. Do we apply a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching our students?
ReplyDeleteNO we shouldn't apply. Education is no lonerg efficiency driven but ability driven.
2. Do all students from the same cultural or ethnic group really learn the same way?
No different cultures/ethnic groups have different values adn beliefs that affects learning.
3. What are the practical constraints in teaching our students according to their learning
style?
4. Should we segregate our students according to their learning style so that all may be
taught that one way?
No. We must expose them to varying degree of learning styles. Are learning styles for
individuals
5. Is it necessary to know the cultural backgrounds of our students to teach them
effectively?
A case example to consider:
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Different cultures/societies undermine a pupil's learning
Socioculturalist learning derives from the work of Vygotsky (1986)"This view [the sociocultural perspective] has profound implications for teaching, schooling, and education. A key feature of this emergent view of human development is that higher order functions develop out of social interaction. Vygotsky argues that a child's development cannot be understood by a study of the individual. We must also examine the external social world in which that individual life has developed...Through participation in activities that require cognitive and communicative functions, children are drawn into the use of these functions in ways that nurture and 'scaffold' them"
Constructivism - learners construct knowledge for themselves---each learner individually (and socially) constructs meaning---as he or she learns. Constructing meaning is learning; there is no other kind. The dramatic consequences of this view are twofold;
1) we have to focus on the learner in thinking about learning (not on the subject/lesson to be taught):
2) There is no knowledge independent of the meaning attributed to experience (constructed) by the learner, or community of learners.
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