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Date:10/
26
Connections
I Say
My notes, commentary
I think this can be said easily about learning,
whats important about critical thinking is that
it helps you find how its important to your life.
I cant think of how many times Im learning
something and dislike it because it has no
meaning to me at all. This is the type of
knowledge that seems worthless knowing.
Lectures are to date the worst type of teaching.
I feel that it is someone telling me to learn
something for a test that I can then forget
later. Having in depth questions that ask how
and why can break through normal boring
lectures.
We talk about in class about how understanding and
teaching social studies is nessisary to become a great
student. This connects, because the more you make people
in depth and the more you can tie the knowledge into
regular day life, the more it hits home and becomes
ingrained in their head.
There was a study done in a kindergarten classroom where
the teacher told the class to be mean to everyone with