Lost in Circuit City...Does anyone have a map?

1. Being a newer teacher, that is one who has taken his standardized certification test recently, I found this chapter to be right on course. In the content area and the APT, they have included questions concerning technology in the classroom. I found that this information is a good strong basis for setting up a multi-level comprehensive educational game plan. Most students today carry some form of electronic device, it is imperative that we as teachers take advantage of this generations tech savvy. In the last chapters we talked about the different learning centers. The text focused on how we can use different sorts of technology to help foster those groups and maximize their potential. It also gives us different ways to see how our students learn, how they in-take stimuli and then reproduce it. Everything I is about how computers, personal learning devices, and other cutting edge technology is the future. If we have been charged to educate the future generations, incorporation of these themes (tech advantages) must be implemented and used.

2. I am actually okay on understanding what is going on. In this book, things seem to be clearer for me to understand. Like the Cognition book, they give examples of research, but I believe this book makes its practicality more realistic and visual and that is very helpful for me.



3. In my job I use so much tech stuff that it is ridiculous. We incorporate high end electronic devices that measure your heart rate, your flexibility level, your bicep strength, your body mass, and other vital signs. This machine can give you a estimated work-up of yourself and things you may be at risk for it you don't meet certain levels. In addition, based on your numbers this machine can make conditioning and fitness programs. Another one that we implement is heart rate monitors and we have the ability to download this information from the set that records this for our students. I have no incorporated the use of a Playstation in my teaching..the use of Dance, Dance, Revolution is huge at my high school. In this new flat modern world, there are two languages everyone speaks...money and technology. I am doing what I can to make PE more enjoyable while also exposing my students to the different things they can and will see in the adult world.

Sometimes I Share,,,,,,Sometimes I Don't

1. I am so glad that I bought this book (How People Learn), I would have struggled reading it on that web page. This week's reading was very interesting. Being that I teach PE, I am technically in what they call a non-traditional class setting.(Some people don't even consider me as a teacher) It was very interesting to learn about different environments in which learning can take place. I go and watch the traditional classroom teachers and watch the different approaches they take toward their students. Assessment is huge, I believe it is necessary, but I do believe you must have multiple ways of assessments. Just like we learned in the cognition book, everyone has different ways of storing, processing, and applying retained stimuli. It only makes sense that some will need different ways to be measured on how and what they learned. This chapter did a good job of linking processes to application.

2.I did not understand the first part of chapter 7. I know it was lead in to the rest of the chapter, but for some reason it just seemed over my head.


3. The application of chapter 6. Chapter 7 really did not do anything for me. I would love to incorporate the different learning environments into PE. Knowledge based learning and community based learning would be huge when it comes to physical education. In the suburbs around Chicago many of the school districts already are doing things like this. They have taken their curriculum and expanded it to reach not only students, but also staff and family members. Here at Alton, we participate in community based learning by having outside people (YMCA, YWCA, Conditioning Coaches) come in and give lessons to our students and explain the importance of living healthy. Where we fall short is in our assessments. We basically only have one,how long can you stay in your target heart rate. Another problem I am working on fixing is including the community as more than just a sponsor, but also as an active participant. I am going to do a little trial and error with the different environments and assessments and see how it goes. I will report back.

Did I Say That? What I meant was......

1. This chapter was a carry over from the previous week discussing language. While I thought last week was a little bit more clearer, this weeks work did correlate after I read it twice. Transitioning from reading language to actually speaking it was the final connection I think that could have been made. I never thought of such things as slip of the tongue errors being a cognitive process or break down of a cognitive process until reading this text. The chapter went into more depth about terms that were mentioned in last weeks readings. Discourse and narrative being the two main ones. From there it transitioned from writing back to bilingualism.

2. One thing that I was confused about was the transitioning of chapter 10. Why did it go from talking about speech to briefly talking about writing, back to speech (acquisition of second language and profeiciency)? From what we have learned throughout this semester, this caused interference that hindered my ability to fully comprehend what was going on in the reading. LOL (Gotta love application)

3. How do you apply this in your work? The beginnings of my teaching career, I started off in two bilingual schools. It is very interesting to see the dynamics of bilingualism at work, especially with Hispanics. I believe that them learning both languages actually makes them better speakers. It is amazing how they will be having a whole conversation in Spanish and drop in the occassional english words. I encourage this learning for I think it makes better students.

Shhhhh! Quiet....Read the words on my lips, no new linguistics

1. This topic fits into what I have previously learned by completing the circle. We have talked about thought processes, comprehension, interferences, and more, but never from the view of language. In our society, in human society, language is the key factor in everything. It is how we communicate, it is how we understand, and how we remember. It gives names to objects, places, and people. Whether it be verbal or through reading this chapter gives a circular outline to other areas: working memory, semantic memory, comprehension, and other cognitive processes that help shape our everyday lives.

2.Surprisingly this is the first time that I think I understand everything that I read. Part of that is because I was looking for articles on everything in the chapter so I got a whole lot of supplemental information that was very helpful.

3. The topic of language is so broad,that it is hard to define where I would use it in my work. So I am going to talk about the factors affecting comprehension: I have a tendency to be very sarcastic. With this tendency I often use negatives in the sentence structure. Through the reading I now realize that than can affect how my students comprehend words (instructions). In accordance with the negatives, the use of nested structures tend to overload my students. Amazingly, I tell myself all the time since I have started this class to not complicate students and overload their stimuli receptors. Ambiguous wording in sentence structure hurts comprehension because it does not allow students to use simple processing to access memory or learn new concept. In PE, where there are common terms that have different meaning depending on how they are being referenced this is an important aspect that I am going to monitor more diligently.