Week eight

A mother goes to school to pick up her son, who’s in the first grade. She ask, ” what did you learn today”? He replies, “we learn to memorize that eight times eight equals 64″. She is very proud of him for memorizing this math sum. But then the little boy ask, “what does eight mean” ? If the child is taught to just memorize the numbers and not shown what they stand for then he’ll never truly learn. You can teach a one year old child to show you one finger when you ask them how old they are, but that does not mean they know what one is. I believe this is what Paulo Freire was saying when he talked about the teachers being the student and the student being the teacher. If we are told something and just store it in our mind without any prof of it being true, then how are we exposed to learn what it is and how it works. By the teacher showing the class and enter acting with the students. By asking questions and responding to them, the students can learn and the teacher can also learn from the students. The teacher could be teaching a topic that he or she isvery familiar with, but a student brings up another point, that the teacher never thought of, and if the teacher is willing to be open mined and except the point the student is making and explorer the new direction of the topic then the teacher could learn something from the student. By doing this and learning from each other the teacher can be a better teacher, and the student can be a better student.

Add comment October 25, 2008

extra credit

www.religioustolerance.org/withness13.htm

Written be L.L. Cotton

“We feel that the Bible clearrly indicate that blood is sacred and it is not to be used for human consumption.”

Okay I don’t know about you but I don’t go around drinking blood. I understand what Cotton in saying in regards to blood transfusion that Johova’s witness don’t belive in them. But we are not telling them to drink the blood it’s a little different then that. The blood is given to them in a IV not a cup. I believe that this is an oversimplification statement.

1 comment October 10, 2008

First off I’d like to give a shout out to all my English 1A classmates. Then I would like to say  McClellan was from civil war times McKieran is the guy working in Iraq. And no the vice president does not have  a lot of jobs there only job is to break a tie in the senateand if the president should be unable to do his job the vice president would take over so please tell me where all these jobs are coming from? It fills like Sarah does not have all the fax correct. She keeps missing the point of the question and just pushes the McCaine is a good guy. I’m not feeling it, but maybe its because I’m middle class you know us hockey mom’s with Joe six packs as husbands. Sarah say Americans are craving something new then why would we do another four years with the Republicans. Sarah sounds as if us hockey moms and Joe six pack where forced to sing on the dotted line to get the loans that they could never afford. Where Joe says two years ago Obama said and warnedthe sub prime was a problem. McCaine was surprised it was a problem just in December? Where has he been the last two years when people where losing there homes. Oh ya I forget he has so many homes he was not for sure the number of them. As I’m sure you can tell I’m not for the McCaine, Palin. I believed she tried hard to win the bebate for her team but I fill she came up short. It time for a change and that would be with Obama.

Add comment October 4, 2008