“Collateral learning” was a term coined by John Dewey that “describes the cultural values and standards we learn while engaged in often entertaining pastimes” (Dewey). Neil Postman and Bell Hooks both found themselves intrigued when they learned of this term‚ which led to them researching more about them‚ and eventually writing two different sides to a very similar story. The television show the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‚ proves that it can be something educational to watch. While at the same time
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The Benefits of Outdoor Play Within this assignment I will explain the value of outdoor play experiences on children’s development then outline my settings current outdoor play provisions and examples of good practice within them. I will suggest areas for improvement in my settings outdoor play provision before moving onto outlining my setting’s current use of Welsh language within the outdoor area. I will then suggest areas for improvement in the use of Welsh language within the outdoor area
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The film Higher Learning is a call to action. It is a film that shows people as products of their environment. The film is set on a college campus‚ a place where most people learn about what they will do in their adult life to try to better the world or simply educate themselves in order to live a better life. However‚ life on the Columbus campus is not good; it is a battlefield between the races and sexes. I feel it is a bit exaggerated‚ but it allows people to see some of the issues that go
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Nowadays‚ active learning is used mostly used method in teaching-learning process. Active learning gives some positive affects to the teaching-learning process so that it gives good result in the end of lesson in class. Hannele Niemi (2002) asserted that according to the qualitative data‚ learning as an active learning process has a clear connection with student teachers’ professional development. Learning which demands active reflection and high responsibility gets student teachers to overcome their
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Education and Learning As we all knew‚ Information Technology has been well-developed for years. Nowadays‚ lots of youngsters would study online via the Internet‚ such as finding academic materials for doing project‚ submitting assignments to the online learning environment of their schools and so forth; therefore‚ people started to think what features of information technology can facilitate with education and learning. In particular‚ people would call this kind of learning as “e-learning”. According
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Jennifer Sadler CLDDV 107 PM September 7th‚ 2014 The Importance of Play Article In the article “The Importance of Play”‚ the author states that promoting play increases the chance of a healthier lifestyle for a childs future. The article talks about how middle class parents have a hurried lifestyle‚ which results with the parents not taking opportunities to interact with their babies. This then leads to their children later on having anxiety problems as well as higher stress levels.
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What is learning? From born to dead‚ we non-stop to learning‚ how to sound‚ walk‚ study knowledge‚ even working skill. We learn in our whole life. But what is learning? Why we need to learn? Is it to follow other success person so we need to learn? Gagné(1965) describe learning as four factors‚ Drive‚ Stimulus‚ Response and Reinforcement. For every learning process before it start there are also have a reason to basic on‚ whatever we are learning a knowledge or a skill. And this is the factor of
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different styles of learning. Not everyone learns the same way. The next most important concepts a person in a position to teach needs to understand are the different learning styles. In 1987‚ Neil Fleming developed a model and self-test to help learners understand more about their learning styles. Fleming enables learners to understand how they learn best by asking a set of questions that help them figure out which category of learner they are. Visual learners prefer learning by pictures‚ movies
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‘Play – Its nature and value’ by Jerome Anderson In today’s world of technology and pushy parents that want academic savvy children‚ where is the play-time for our kids? For many years parents have been bringing their children to homework clubs‚ football‚ basketball‚ netball practice‚ plus dance classes and other activities to improve their children’s outlook on life. While all these structured activities are good for a child at a young age‚ is it really what they want? According to Article
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Montessori Teacher Training Work/Play Balance – a Montessori Perspective I recently read an alarming article from Michael Conlon of Reuters‚ entitled‚ U.S. school children need less work‚ more play: study. Conlon contends that there is a growing trend in U.S. public schools of reducing free time "because many school districts responded to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by reducing time committed to recess‚ the creative arts‚ and even physical education in an effort to focus on reading
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