NPR: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning Listen to the podcast and answer the following questions. Submit your answers via safe assign on blackboard. 1. What did you find to be the most interesting idea in the podcast? I believe the most interesting idea in the podcast is presented right in the beginning when they discuss the concept of struggle. The gentleman speaker describes an anecdote where he is sitting in the back of a class in an eastern culture, and a young boy who is struggling with drawing a cube for the assignment at hand is told to do it in front of the class until he gets …show more content…
This is due to the fact that I am an individual who is constantly struggling with their work. I have never been someone to immediately grasp a concept without having to do a lot of independent research to ensure I fully understand what is being taught. As it is touched upon in the podcast in western cultures the faster one understands something the smarter they’re considered to be. This concept has never been applicable in my life for I am a slow learner compared to most. However, I do learn it eventually, I simply have to put in more effort which is very similar to the expectations of an eastern …show more content…
This is especially prevalent when I’m in a classroom and I look around and see everyone else understanding when I’m not. I take my inability to understand quickly as something I am ashamed of because I feel the pressure of the standards in this society have shown me that I should feel discouraged in the way I do. 4. What do you do when you don’t understand a concept immediately? I feel excited and accomplished. In the podcast it mentions that in western culture we associate understanding something immediately with being smart, and personally, this is very true. When I understand something immediately I feel very smart and I feel as if I am excelling with the concept at hand, and in all honesty I also feel as if I am above those in the course who may not fully understand. 5. Now that you’ve listened to the podcast, how will your learning strategy
Everyone has their own preferred way of learning new things. Knowing how you learn can
There are four points in Dr. Chews’ “Beliefs that make you stupid”. Some of these beliefs are; that you can learn fast, that if you memorize everything you will learn it, just because you don’t do well in something you think you will never succeed, and lastly when you think you are good at multitasking. Many times I try to memorize the facts to learn the material and I also like to multitask. There has been a few times where I have brought my study material to work so I could look at it in my spare time. Most of the time I don’t get time to look over anything at work because I never get spare time to stop and look at them because people are always coming in and I have to go take care of them.
Listen to the free podcast and complete worksheet. You only need to listen to the first 3 stories. Though, the 4th is VERY interesting.
This means that you only have a certain amount of time to tell a cohesive story. Basically, by the end of the episode, you need to have drawn some sort of conclusion from your original subject. This narrative is as important as chapters are to the organization of a book. To make the narrative have flow effectively, you need to link quotes from interviews together with narration. Transitions between concepts can be done most effectively via well written narration or background music. The narration is most efficient if it either summarize or adds insight to ideas, and the music is most effective if it sets the emotional tone of the upcoming discussion. Both the interviews, like the narrative, must progress the story. For example, in the “This American Life” episode “Switched at Birth”, the podcast first discusses the experiences of the two women who were switched at birth, and then the experiences of the mothers whose daughters were switched. The interviews built on each other. The audience doesn’t want to learn about the experiences of auxiliary characters before hearing from the protagonist; it just doesn’t doesn’t logically
In the first video “Beliefs That Make You Fail… Or Succeed” Dr. Steven Chew started off by stating you, the student, cannot become an A student overnight with little to no effort. He made a great point by saying “…students base their study behavior on their beliefs of how they best learn”, I agree with this statement because this could be the reason as to why everyone learns in many different ways. He went over three key facts which fall under “Beliefs That Make You Stupid”, which the first was you should always plan ahead of time because your assignments or reading will most likely take longer than you expected them to, therefore be realistic about your timing. The second key fact would be don’t isolate your learning, this meaning to be open minded because teachers look for conception and if you try to constantly remember the things you’re not really understanding what you’re going over. Thirdly, you aren’t born and automatically good at that subject. You must actually work towards achieving a high success in that subject matter. When it comes to being distracted you’re just losing more
The amount of mental processing power needed to absorb new content has a profound impact on a person’s ability to learn.
Throughout the podcast ideas presented by the reporters and speakers are all well organized and thorough. The speaker gives background
The Learning Theory influences everyone’s culture, ethnicity, gender, and social status, by being from different geographical location and religious background everyone has a unique characteristic, when it comes to learning or problem solving. One of the most important events in a human’s life is the “Learning Theory”.
The purpose of this study is to determine the combined relationship between connected knowing (CK), separate knowing (SK), and epistemological beliefs with student’s academic performance. These variables look at understanding how students acquire knowledge and their attitudes towards thinking and learning. As mentioned in the study done by Schommer-Aikins and Easter (2006) this study would provide future benefit to how students are being taught along with how to manage their time while studying. In addition, this study could result in students acquiring better study habits earlier on, data collected from Wood and Kardash (2003) study showed that there was a large difference between the level of education in the participants and their level of epistemic cognition, which means that if students were to increase their level of epistemological thinking earlier on in their college career through workshops or seminars that taught them this way of thinking, theoretically student’s study habits and learning habits would improve significantly throughout their time in college.
In the first episode, the composer provides insight on the 6 individuals perspective in the form of a montage. Each individual provided personal testimonies
In the article, “Watch What You Tweet”, by the National Coalition Against Censorship, it informs the mischief of what students are capable of when using social media to offend an individual, which can lead to school officials suspending or expelling them, and in end, violating their First Amendment rights.
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A lot of the times when I first began school, I would be very irritated and mad that I couldn’t read or understand what people were saying. My coach set up a system
The podcast was an interview with Christy Oslund and her book “Supporting College and University Students with Invisible Disabilities: A Guide for Faculty and Staff Working with Students with Autism, ADHD, Anxiety and Mental Illness.” It was an eye opener for me because the new innovative ideas for student struggles, transitioning, and those students that have never needed help.
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