Sup People

Whats up everybody, it's me Javier with my weekly posting, and I hope everybody enjoyed their breaks. Last week's service learning session was an interesting one. It was really short. Our activity for the day involved hollahoops and tennis balls. The objective of the activity was to get all the tennis balls inside all the holla hoops, the solution was to put all the holla hoops together on top of each other and the tennis balls in the center. Unfotunately though, we did not get to do this activity. A lot of the students had already done the activity before and knew the solution. We had no back up and therefore we left early. I thought that it was interesting that we had no back up.

Today's class discussion on Lives on Boundary was even more interesting. The one part that I liked was when we addressed the question that dealt with Rose's views on education and learning processes. I completely agreed with his views. He argued that education today is not consistent. That it is instead scattered all around and as a result people aren't learning anymore. Rose mentioned that because people are taking different courses year after year, that don't allow them to use knowledge learned from previous years, people are forgetting things more and more. When I read this section it reminded me of my AP calculus teacher. He would always talk about this during the course of the year. He would always talk about how students aren't learning anymore. He was the first teacher I ever had that explicitly addressed this with us. He taught us like no other teacher I ever had. He would encourage us to be conceptual learners. He would always want us to understand  mathmetical concepts as opposed to just knowing how to do things. At first I didn't understand him, but now I feel like understand the importance the idea.

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Comments

[Jeff Jacques]

Hey whats up Javier,

In your entry up above you raise some interesting points which caught my attention, and presumably the curiousity of others as well. You cliam that your high shcool calculus teacher wanted you and your classmates to be "concepual" learners. That is an incredibly bright concept thought up by your teacher, but do you feel that it is a realistic one? I mean with so much expected of students nowadays it seems hard for them not to just take the easy route by memorizing the information, spitting it out on exams, and then forgetting all in which they learned. Get back at me.