Week #3 Assignment (due Oct 20)

First, a reminder that the blog assignments are due by 6am on Thursday. This allows me ample time to review your posts and to generate discussion questions as I prepare for our class.

Because we'll be traveling this week, I will offer you a lighter blog homework assignment, primarily based on reading you've already done for class. The article What knowledge is of most worth that I have assigned for this week will go very well with our discussions today about Freire and the banking concept of education, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and other topics relevant to education.  We will be discussing this article in class so please be prepared for a hearty round of conversation!

Please complete the following for this week. Remember, complete each as a separate post with the title I provide below. Thank you!

1. Title: Education terminology from How cultures educate
First, please find definitions to the following words that were named in the chapter (brief-show me that you know them!). It's important to understand the terminology within the articles you're reading...
--pedagogy
--mimetic
--situated learning
--distributed knowledge
--educational milieu
--Japanese amae
--German Gemutlichkeit
--Chinese hao-xue
--Confucian milieu
--E pluibus unum

2. Title: Theorists from How cultures educate
Please do a search and provide a brief summary of each of these well known educational theorists. I want you to know the main ideas (in a few sentences) that represent each of their beliefs. Just the highlights... ;-)
Piaget
Montessori
Vygotsky
Dewey
Bruner

3. Title: Changing Education Paradigms video
Please view this animated YouTube on education Changing Education Paradigms. I strongly suggest you watch the video first, just watch it through. Then, watch it again a day or two later, this time with a notebook-jot down your ideas. It will make better sense to you the second time around (just a friendly suggestion!). Please provide your reactions to the video--what did you agree with? Anything you disagree with? What have been your experiences, related to the points Sir Ken Robinson makes? What is he saying that matches what we've been talking about?