The semester is really starting to feel like it’s on a downfall no till the end! I don’t know about all of you but I plan and will be busy busy busy these next 5 weeks!! One to last week’s class. We discussed facilitating learning and about how everyone has their different styles of learning. I discover that my top two ways to learn were verbal/linguistic and then body/kinesthetic.
I light to talk about things a lot, I have found that it helps me remember them better for when I might have to reproduce them in the future for either a test or just simply for my own knowledge. Not only do I reproduce things I have learned verbally, but also through visual notes where I rewrite, highlight, reread, and reproduce learned items continuously. When it all comes down to it, the more I reproduce what I am learning, the more familiar with it I am and the better I am at the better I am able to remember important knowledge.
By choosing body/kinesthetic as my second best method of learning, I was thinking in broadness about how I like to exercise and pay attention to health. While I am exercising (like on a machine for example), I find that I am more alert and pay attention to what I am reading better so I’m not just reading things over and over again that do not get registered into my memory. Not only do I learning things better academic wise, but I also feel better physically by exercising. I have always known to be true that the better I feel physically, the easier things come and better I am at arising challenges academically as well as in other areas of my life.
Learning is another thing that is unique about every individual. I realize that we all learn differently and need to be taught differently. I plan to better understand all methods of learning so in the future those that I teach can learn the material in any way that suites them best.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Week 9
Hello to all!! Time to get back at it this week now that spring break is over. We focused on the area of communication last class period. It is a part of our lives that is constant but thought about rarely. The activity we did was a good representation of how communication can be interpreted in numerous ways and understood on different levels. I had mentioned in my answer to the question of the day that my most ineffective time of communication rests within my daily tasks and interactions. I tend to think everyone automatically knows what is going on in my head and can always interpret my thoughts. Therefore I often times get upset when people can’t read me the way I think they should.
One of the main problems that lead to divorce in today’s society, which has over a 50 percent divorce rate, rests within communication between the couples. Both men and women communicate differently. Women tend to enjoy playing guessing games with their feelings. Females never act as though they want people to know what they are thinking or feeling even though they hope people will figure it out for themselves. Men are more direct, they will either tell you how they feel when it is important, or they will just let it brush off their shoulder. I know I am not a male and cannot verify this is the way males communicate. I just know what I see through observation and what I have learned in classes involving male and female communication.
I truly believe communication is the most simple alteration that can be made in a lot of people’s lives to fix much bigger problems. If everyone changed the way they communicated so they became more effective, more major problems could be identified and fixed. Not only problems within relationships but problems globally among different countries.
The same principle that shows communication as a consistent part throughout our daily lives also needs to apply to the thought about daily communication where we should constantly think about the way we communicate more while we are communicating. It is something I plan to work on in my daily activities and interactions.
One of the main problems that lead to divorce in today’s society, which has over a 50 percent divorce rate, rests within communication between the couples. Both men and women communicate differently. Women tend to enjoy playing guessing games with their feelings. Females never act as though they want people to know what they are thinking or feeling even though they hope people will figure it out for themselves. Men are more direct, they will either tell you how they feel when it is important, or they will just let it brush off their shoulder. I know I am not a male and cannot verify this is the way males communicate. I just know what I see through observation and what I have learned in classes involving male and female communication.
I truly believe communication is the most simple alteration that can be made in a lot of people’s lives to fix much bigger problems. If everyone changed the way they communicated so they became more effective, more major problems could be identified and fixed. Not only problems within relationships but problems globally among different countries.
The same principle that shows communication as a consistent part throughout our daily lives also needs to apply to the thought about daily communication where we should constantly think about the way we communicate more while we are communicating. It is something I plan to work on in my daily activities and interactions.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Week 8
Only one more week until break!! I don’t know about everyone else but I am ready for a break. Maybe read a book that’s not a textbook for a change!
Anyways, on to the assignment. This week we were targeted towards diversity in the class activity and in the ISCORE participation. Growing up I was not exposed to a whole lot of diversity. My high school was majorly of white ethnicity with only a few African Americans and Hispanic ethnicities and zero Asian origins if I remember correctly. When I came to Iowa State at first it was a bit difficult to get used to the different cultural backgrounds of my new student peers. But the longer I have been on this campus, the easier it has been to see all the variety of people around me
This may not be the same for everyone however. There are some people who I’m sure cannot get used to being around people who are a lot different them they are. Then on the other side of the continuum I’m sure there are the kinds of people who, ever since they were born, have been used to being exposed to various cultures.
I believe I am a person who hasn’t been exposed to a lot of cultural diversity growing up, but I know that I work to accept people who are different. We are all unique individuals and when we recognize that, I believe we are more likely and willing to accept other people’s diversity and ‘uniqueness.’
My ISCORE event was targeted towards children’s literacy and the diversity that goes along with it. I didn’t realize how much there was diversity or a lock of in children’s story books. I know that it is not something that I would have paid a whole lot of attention to as a child but it makes me wonder what I would observe in my books I used to read or be read to as a child. I challenge all of you to take a gander at the books from your childhood and pick out the diversity in the characters. Whether it is for the better or the worst it’s still surprising to see what you observe.
See ya’ll Tuesday!
Anyways, on to the assignment. This week we were targeted towards diversity in the class activity and in the ISCORE participation. Growing up I was not exposed to a whole lot of diversity. My high school was majorly of white ethnicity with only a few African Americans and Hispanic ethnicities and zero Asian origins if I remember correctly. When I came to Iowa State at first it was a bit difficult to get used to the different cultural backgrounds of my new student peers. But the longer I have been on this campus, the easier it has been to see all the variety of people around me
This may not be the same for everyone however. There are some people who I’m sure cannot get used to being around people who are a lot different them they are. Then on the other side of the continuum I’m sure there are the kinds of people who, ever since they were born, have been used to being exposed to various cultures.
I believe I am a person who hasn’t been exposed to a lot of cultural diversity growing up, but I know that I work to accept people who are different. We are all unique individuals and when we recognize that, I believe we are more likely and willing to accept other people’s diversity and ‘uniqueness.’
My ISCORE event was targeted towards children’s literacy and the diversity that goes along with it. I didn’t realize how much there was diversity or a lock of in children’s story books. I know that it is not something that I would have paid a whole lot of attention to as a child but it makes me wonder what I would observe in my books I used to read or be read to as a child. I challenge all of you to take a gander at the books from your childhood and pick out the diversity in the characters. Whether it is for the better or the worst it’s still surprising to see what you observe.
See ya’ll Tuesday!
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