The information in chapter 2 was informative when reflecting on how my third grade students process information. I believe this information to be in line with the research that supports the different learning styles. There are definitely visual and auditory learners present in our classrooms.
I found the information about prosopagnosia to be amazing. The idea that a person can identify various parts of a person's face independent of one another, instead of forming a unified complete face is foreign to me. Did anyone else find this interesting?
Karen,
ReplyDeleteI agree with having different learning styles in our classrooms. For me, it is important to try to incorporate these styles into my lessons. I was amazed at some of the processing theories. The fact that the human brain can organize and classify such a vast amount of information captivates me.
As for the prosopagnosia, that completely floored me. I never thought about a face being anything except a face. I was also interested in the farmer who could recognize his sheep rather than people. Wow!
Thanks Karen for the comments. Be sure to address the other questions too for the week (below). If you are interested in prosopagnosia and the sheep, there are many other interesting stories of this kind, including profiles of some famous cases such as Phineas Gage, HM, and KM.
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Weekly Reflection Questions
1. How can I summarize this reading in a few sentences?
2. How does it fit into what I have learned already in this course?
3. What am I still not clear on?
4. How would apply this to my own teaching/work?
5. What proof does the author offer that makes me believe this is valid? Do I believe it? Why?
6. Why is this important? What does it help improve or explain or predict?
7. When would I actually use this – under what kind of circumstances and for what kind of students?
8. Are there other ways to accomplish the same thing that are faster, cheaper, and/or better?
I found the prosopagnosia interesting also. It also made me think about a demonstration I show my students in class. I have this lighted box with the indentation of a face (the mold is inverted into the box. If I turn on the light, students see a 3 dimensional face just as if the face was protruding from the box. The face also "moves" with them as the walk side to side (he always has his eye on them). This phenomena works because our brains fill in the missing pieces with what is familiar as a face. Not sure where this fits in, but I think it is amazing.
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