Charles Simic writes an article based on his thoughts pertaining to the possession electronics play today: "A Reunion With Boredom". He discusses a time in his life where his dwelling’s noise made it impossible to be bored. “The building was so noisy; there was not a chance of being bored for a second.” (nybooks.com) Noise is the eliminator of boredom. Movies play nonchalantly in homes, music in the car, chatter at the coffee shop; noise creates a sense of placement and purpose. He pulls ideas around the nostalgic potential of boredom. While being bored he is brought to reminisce of younger times when people would marry, read, move to California to escape boredom. Whereas now with the multitude of electronics at our fingertips, one does not…
Across the nation, thousands of students ranging from elementary to college levels are sent back to their place of residence after a long day of lectures with work they must complete in order to be prepared for the next day of class. For younger students, the load is minimal, and may only consist of reviewing their vocabulary words. However, for students in high school and beyond, their backpacks are stretching at the seams with books to read, notes to study, papers to write, projects to complete. While many will ignore their responsibilities to focus on their extracurriculars, headstrong students with a yearn for learning will set their sights on their assignments and stay cooped up at a desk for hours upon hours in order to comprehend every…
It is important that the appropriate methods or mixture of methods are used to successfully assist the progress of learning. Learning activities will encourage creativity and enthusiasm and promote independent learning. Example learning activities would be games, essays, group work or case studies. Ice Breakers are a effective way of starting a lesson they help people get to know each other help the students to relax. They also break down the barriers, encourage teamwork and establish trust within the class.…
The usefulness of starter activities to engage learners, to focus the mind and, if done in pairs or small groups, to get people to interact with each other and encourage team working.…
The "peek-a-boo" world of television has had a disastrous effect on the culture of the typographic mind. Neil Postman in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death explains how the "peek-a-boo" world of television has impacted modern discourse.…
America’s intellectuals since the creation of television have belittled and criticized the effect that the ‘idiot box’ has on its’ viewers. In effect, television and its’ media have affected negatively the level of public discourse and intelligence in Contemporary America. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman explained how the gradual dumbing of our discourse and how our failed ‘treatments’ of this serious issue have been nothing more than fodder for entertainment. At the root of Postman’s central claim is a comparison between two very different fictional Dystopian societies in literature, the first being George Orwell’s gloomy Authoritarian society in 1984, and the second being Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, that warns of the dangers of giving the government power over new and influential technologies. Postman acknowledged that contemporary society has merely become that of Huxley’s dystopia, in that we are not oppressed by a higher power, but have allowed ourselves to become brainwashed into believing ourselves to be content and happy with distractions such as the television.…
References: Downey, J. & Garzoli, E.; (2007). The Effectiveness of a Play-Based Curriculum in Early Childhood Education’. Retrieved July 30, 2012 from http://teachplaybasedlearning.com…
Have you every tried to entertain a child with a maximum attention span of 30 seconds? It is a nightmare trying to keep your children from getting so bored they actually start playing board games. It is good to keep children entertained because they stay out of trouble. They also cannot burn your house down or assault the elderly. I will be showing you why it is good to keep children entertained and how to do so.…
E1- Collate evidence which describes the role of the practitioner in meeting children’s learning needs.…
It was obvious that Ms. Brown had created a plan for this lesson by observing the progression of the skills that were being taught and that they were presented in a logical order that aided student comprehension. Both the students and the teacher were familiar with the skills and the delivery. She also posts lesson plans online. Objectives and expectations of the lesson were communicated to the students on a special place on the board, at the front of the class with essential questions and " I can" statements. Ms. Brown was able to gain the students' attention for the lesson with a hook type activity. It was an engaging question for the student to answer that was related to the topic. Students worked independently, in pairs and in groups and read a selection either by themselves or with another student. The material was then presented in a graphic organizer by the teacher with illustrations and relevant examples provided by the students. They also read the selection (either our loud to a partner or to themselves) and then the material was displayed in the form of a graphic organizer for the visual learners. Ms. Brown used PowerPoint to present the material.…
Class Dojo is a classroom management tool used by teachers to allow them the opportunity to keep track of student’s behavior, classroom participation, homework and other classroom activities. This is a Web 2.0 tool that requires access to a web browser, as well as internet connection. Class Dojo is intended for almost any grade level up to 8th grade. It is an interactive tool that allows access to not only teachers, but students and their parents as well. This medium is intended for any gender and subject or grade level, as it keeps track of scores, participation and behaviors. Although Class Dojo does not have any curriculum based standards, this tool allows for students to gain better classroom behaviors. Through…
Both Jones and Wong stress the importance of the first day of school, the first two weeks, and the first five minutes of class. They both believe that students should come in and start working on school work immediately with the use of some sort of short assignment. In addition, both believe that teaching needs to engage the students. Jones calls his means of this “Say-See-Do” instruction. The teacher tells the students about the subject, shows them, and then has the students do it. Wong believes that students learn better from an…
In most high schools, about half of the students do not pay attention while in the classroom. This ultimately causes a disturbance, disabling the rest of the students who actually care about their work to not learn and the teachers to get off track or behind with teaching the desired material. With Jago’s plan we can weed out these sorts of problems and supply a richer education in the classrooms.…
Learning is fun at Ocean County Vocational Technical School because it’s teaching you how to start your journey in life; it makes you become a better person and teaches you different things in your young adult years. The reason why I think its fun because it helps me get a job, teaching me things I didn’t know, showing me how to be in a work environment and having good communication skills.…
I have attached separately my spider graph and rough work of the 5 daily activities which I prepared prior to carrying out the activity. I felt the best activity for me to carry out in the class would be the art one as the children would have spent the previous four days learning the words and this would be a fun way to go over it all.…