4 What lessons about effective learning did you take from this author?
GERALD GRAFF "Disliking Books at an Early Age"
1 Teachers not adapting, lack of interest,not knowing what to say
2 inability to apply skills, flunk out of school, lack of knowledge discovered
3 what made reading interesting for him, listens to students, by himself
4 Find a way to relate to the writing, keep an open mind,teachers need to adapt to different students.
MIKE ROSE "Entering the Conversation"
1 Social environment often holds students back from becoming successful learners; doing the bare minimum to get by; unprepared for college, intimidated by the academia; feeling overwhelmed by the foreign logic of the assigned readings
2 Students resort to memerization, doing the bare minimum to get by,failer to learn, failure to realize full potential, failer to take control of your own life
3 he took the help offered to him, he surrounded himself with educated people and became one of them, he pushed himself and gained confidence to learn
4 to seek help and ask questions, do not let your fears influence your desition to keep learning, hardwork and perseveance is needed to learn, learning also takes place outside of school
John Tagg
1 Grubbing for grades - quantitative learning vs. qualitative learning=knowledge retention; education is an assembly line; sdtudents do not reflect on their learning experiences; universitite s unwilling to change the ways they go about teachong and offering classes Too much
2 focus on grades deprives us of true learning; info retention is little to nothing; students settle for the status quo of empty boxes on an assembly line
3 Problem posing will compell academia to change
4 You will learn more if you are not grade oretated but instead trying to learn.
PAULO FREIRE "Banking Concept of Education"
1 Education is limited by social injustice; compliance; conformity; loss of passion; dehumanization; routine; creativity deprivation
2 Limited self-discovery; not reaching your full potential as a human being; resorting to memorization instead of real learning; loss of individuality
3 Engaging in the world he lived to change it;
4 The teacher is not aways right form your own ideas