Friday, April 15, 2011

Revised question

How does structure of text books affects the way we learn?

Revised Question p2

How does readings with drawings help you have a easy way to understand the meaning of what you read?

Revised Question of P2

What are the best learning strategies that can help us get a better development of reading and writing skills?

Revised Question P2

Does workshops and tutoring help us develop new criterias that define when written ideas are de ideals for us?

Re-vised P2 Questions

How is voice, or the power to bring out one thoughts, is important in a person academic writings like research and reflective essays?

Revised question?

Previous question :How much does multilingulism infewres in Acamedic performance?
New QuestIon: In relation to writng ,how does multilingualism affect your effectivnes in class work?

Revised Question

Does the practice of peer response and how the teachers interact with students really benefit to better further develop students writing?

Revised question?

Revised Question

How does note taking affect your performance in school?

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How can colabritive learning help you learn more effectively?

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how does interest and prior knowledge including our founds of knowledge affect our meaning and learning?

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Macro



I chose this macro because it explains how I felt when I was revising my essay. I admit that sometimes it is very tiring going over an essay and seeing and thinking what does it need? What can I remove or add to make it better? The cat fell asleep which is what happens to me sometimes when I’m going over some homework or reading. I also do that to clear my head, and when I wake up I have ‘new’ ideas that I can do to my revision. Of course is my job as a student to do my homework, but I feel like sometimes I need a break and just sleep and do nothing. When I re-editing my essay I didn’t know what to do, so what I do was I closed the computer and just focused and gets all kind of distractions away from me. Another thing I do is sat in a chair instead of being at my bed, because that gets me sleepy. I don’t really enjoy revising I must admit that it is in fact kind of boring.

Macro



I feel good with this picture because it represent that I am studing and working hard on my project, and I try really hard, this is something very important because if if we can do a better work we can have abetter grade and I expect that it can really help me, independently if you have a good or a bad grade, it can meke you look better getting better grades. Also with this I try to explain that we need to do our work in order to get good grades.

Revised p1 paragraph

Original Text
First paragraph

When I first started developing my genogram I wasn’t too sure about the conclusions or even the hypothesis of my study.
The purpose of my genogram was to chart in chronological order my journey through the literacy that could show the different developing stages of my learning and composition.
The chart was divided in progressive periods in my life each 2 years long. And running in parallel to my chronological chart was my parents own chart in the same periods of time.

In the beginning of my project i wasn't sure about the structure or the content of my project.
While developing the in a time structure manner i was able to describe in a linear way the evolution of my interaction with the written world, from my first steps in to learning to read up to my latest reading about fractals math and advance quiantic theories.
The graphic itself portrayed the time line flow of my self and my family and pointed out the evident connection in between what i was influenced for and what I was interested on doing.

Revised p1 paragraph

Like the section of description and observation, that explains what is the purpose of the architectural design, in my case for example in the description section I put the part of focus cause to do a good read you have to be focus, to understand better, and in the section of observations I put the part of no distractions, cause it´s important to be only on the read and nothing else be bothering you, so this project works for architectures and engineers, because they are the ones that are used to work with this kind of design, and it would be easy to them to interpret it, for example in this case they at the moment they see the design, they will know that this it's the section that says what gonna be the details of the design.

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i think dis is waht am going through cause when i revise or rewrite i always end up changing my whole theroy. and i mean i get fustrasted or myabe sumtimes its alot of funn changing cause i mean i get to put a lill more of what i think either disagree or agree. but how the macro says "keep ur coin i want change " i think im goin through is juggling my ideas n i compare that with the coins i mean i want sumthing good ...

Revise paragraph P1

We need to find a way to get students to like what they are doing in class and not to feel bored, because if that happens we fail as teachers. When a student is bored no information will get into his brain, contrary if the student is engaged with the reading or really into the class it wont even be necessary for a student to study too much for a test because they would remember almost everything (or at least important details) of the lesson. We are the responsible for that connection, w[j]e determine the way our students perceive a class. So it is really challenging to do that because not all of them are interested in the same things or some like to do things in a different way than others, etc.

The main purpose for a teacher is to inspire. Find the way to keep students entertain in class. To feel that they are really into the topic and make them participate. When a student shows no interest in class you will notice that no information will get into his brain even though you Try all the different techniques. It is a total challenge for a teacher to do this but it is not impossible.
I think that a lot of students might relate to the same problem that I have which is reading, when it comes to reading I need to be very focused and not distracted in order for me to understand it and enjoy it. For example for me my problem when it comes to reading articles is first of all the topic and the vocabulary. This a very connected because when you don’t like the topic you don’t want to understand the vocabulary and it seems very hard for you because you simply don’t like the article and then decide it not to read it. At the beginning I wanted to do a question or something related to music, because when I was younger I played the piano, so it was a big part of my life at that time, because I don’t play it anymore. And it was kind of difficult because I didn’t know what kind of project I was going to do; I wanted to do something really creative.


My problems when it comes to reading is first of all the topic, vocabulary, and that articles are very plain looking. Also i get distracted vey easily, so in that case the topic needs to be very interesting to me in order for me to be focused

revise

'What i did/im doing for my project one is showing how we learn through experience.
it it means like it says we learn by doing it experiencing it going through it. In my project im going to porve how we learn throught experience and also make my class mates expierce my point. im going to bring my accordion and play intros of songs (romantic/boleros, storries/corridos, and break up or downer songs) by playing music they dont know they will get a message accross by the rythim. for me an exapmle of that is when i started to listening to vallenato music or simply music from other places sometimes i dont know what they say but by the rythim i know if its a romantic song or not. when i play the intros of songs they are not going to know whats the song about but by the rythim they will now what type of song it is because they probably heard other romantic songs so by experiencing it before they will know what the song should be about. music is also another type of writting and reading like i mentioned we read the melody and lyircs and when we make a song or create the lyrics and rythim we are writting also another type of writting and music is a universal way of gettig messages across and not all writting is textual."


for my project im going to prove how we learn through experience. well so far in my life i have leaned alot from experience some good and some bad but all have made me learn something. i choose this theory because i think we all go through this but some of us dont know it or dont seen to notice it. this can also be related to school for exapmle in a math class we lean from experience we do examples and from there we learn commpared than from just reading a txt book.

P1: Rewriting Paragraph

This project is mainly targeted to the instructors that make up standardized test prompts. Maybe they can learn from students test scores, they can realize that if a student is given the opportunity to write about what they know and what inspires them, they may just have amazing results in the writing areas. Each students inspiration comes from a different source or experience. For someone who is into games and graphics, a prompt on “ the influence of games into the learning environment” might interest them more than for someone who has never picked up a video game in their life. Another example would be for someone who is a sports fanatic, a prompt such as “ how can a playing a sport be an experience for a good writer and reader”. For some people, good writing is created when someone is frustrated, for others one must be happy and cheerful. Having differed topics or guides instead of narrow and one pointed prompts would be beneficial for many students. By rethinking the way prompts are made, and considering taking the students interest which will spark inspiration, maybe the standardized testing prompts wouldn't be so bad and overwhelming. If administrators could leave open ended prompts that allows the student to write about what they know or inspires them, they can easily achieve more. For these reasons I personally believe that students should be given the right to write about a topic they chose, It would make their writing much more interesting. It would be necessary to implement proper grammar and writing structure, which can be taught, on the other hand inspiration can’t. This just comes to show that inspiration is very hard to captivate, since we are all different types of learners and mainly influenced by different experiences, which build our own inspirations.