Chapter 10 Learning Log

What?
This chapter was the social cognitive view of learning. It was similar to behaviorism buy added a little to it. It said that enviornmental, personal and behavioral variable all influence each other and have and effect on who a person is and how they learn.They believe that one person can learn from observing others and their actions, however, they also believe that learning is an internal process that may or may not lead to a behavior change. They also say that reinforcement and punishment have indirect effects on learning and behavior. In class we talked about the Bobo doll experiment. I thought it was really interesting to see that after observing an adult beat up a bobo doll the children not only did the same thing but found new and interesting ways to hurt the bobo doll.

So What?
I thing this is very important to us as future teachers. They could take what they see us do and do it themselves. This could be good or bad. We need to conduct ourselves in a good way all the time. If they see us calmly handle a bad situation it might have an effect on them. At the same time if they see us blow up at a student of colleague they might think it is appropriate to do the same.

Now What?
I think we just always need to keep in mind we are always being watched. We need to act accordingly . Our actions are a huge things to the students and we should always have them in mind at school.

Chapter 9 Learning Log

What?
This chapter talked about human behavior and how it is often a result of their experiences in with their environment. It talked about being born as blank slates and the thing that we do and what we experience writes on our slate and makes us who we are. It talked about having emotional responses to certain stimuli and possibly stimuli that are closely related. It talked about positive and negative reinforcement and how to use them effectively.

So What?
I think this is just another thing that will help us to better understand our students. I don't necessarily believe everything that behaviorist say but I think if you take all of the different views on learning and combine them you will have a pretty good advantage when teaching. You will better understand your students and what they are going through at different stages of their lives, and you will better understand how they learn at different stages of their lives.


Now What?

My now what is always to put into action what you have learned. If you get information and just log it away and keep it just so you will know the information it will benefit you nothing. We always need to take what we learn and use it to make our classrooms the best they can be.

Chapter 7 Learning Log

What? Chapter 7 talked about how schooling and our outside influences shape our understanding of different things. Students must come up with their own understanding about everything. Making students understand one thing all in the same way will never work. We all think and learn things differently, therefore, we all remember and process things in different ways. The way I remember one thing can be totally different than they way someone else remembered even though we experienced the same thing. I really liked the activity in class where we all had to decide on a definition for a chair. Something that would seem so simple was extremely hard to define. Everyone had their own opinions on what a chair is and what it should be. We split up into groups and had different things to define. I noticed that there are certain things you can agree on. One group had a triangle and it is rather difficult to argue what a triangle is. However, family, fairy tale, maturity and things like that are hard to come to a definition that everyone would agree on.

So What? The thing I really learned is that teaching will never be an easy task. We need to be able to modify our teaching so that many different people can learn the information. We cannot teach one lesson and expect all the students to have our same knowledge about that subject. We will need to ask questions and really make sure that they know what we have taught before we can move on.

Now What? I think every time I am planning a lesson I need to keep in mind all the different students I will have in class. It would be great if I could come up with a lesson that would address all different types of learning so they can all learn at once. Since that won't happen very often I need to be open to helping struggling students on an individual basis so they too will be able to learn at their pace.