September 30, 2012

Quote:

"The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done."

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist.

This quote is cool. It talks about education is to create men who can make a difference in our society not to keep repeating what society has already seen. I chose this quote because society has chosen us to make a difference for the good not for bad.

Article:

Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/education/stuyvesant-high-school-students-describe-rationale-for-cheating.html?ref=education

Cheating is not something productive that children should do, but yet students at Stuyvesant explain why it tends to be common. Some students chose to get the easy way out instead of learning to grasp the material. This article talks about how cheating on homework, quizzes, and tests are common, and it explains how cheating on an exam is not as common but it often happens. Some students use their cell phones or their technology as an advantage to be able to cheat and get a good grade rather than to study and almost fail. Basically teachers wonder “how do we distinguish which pupil is the top student, if they all have the same answers?” Students get lightly punished sometimes for this, therefore students will keep cheating. I agree that students do get lightly punished and am not surprised that some students have done this because there will always be that one kid along with his friends that give eat other the answers on the homework. After all some kids want to get into a good school, therefore they will risk it all just to get into a school of their dreams.

Observations:

In one of my classes my teacher turned on the radio and allowed us to listen to the music. It was soothing to hear the radio on while diligently doing our school work. Music can make some students concentrate better while doing their assignments. I tend to work better when I listen to music. My day was certainly brightened when I heard the sound of music in the classroom. I wished every teacher would do that whenever they assign students to quietly work. I am going to be sure that whenever I assign quiet assignments that my students listen to the soothing sound of music.

September 23, 2012

Quote: "Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing" ~Voltaire quotes
	I love this quote because I believe it's true. This quote also goes along with the article I have posted below. Doctors tend to no nothing about the person, some about the disease, and little about the medicine. I believe that the only cure is to actually get to know the person. I believe that diseases can be formed by the people, feelings that are within the person, and that the only cure is by getting to know the person and maybe getting to know what is bothering the person or how can you make the person happier. I believe people should live their lives to the fullest, not by medications prescribed by doctors that take your money. Article:   Study Of Malaysian Tribe Could Help Find East Asian Skin Color Genes  n.p. "Study Of Malaysian Tribe Could Help Find East Asian Skin Color Genes." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 30 Aug. 2012. Web. 21 Sep. 2012. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/249620.php> I think this article is very interesting because it's basically talking about how scientist are trying to figure out a way to prevent skin cancer.  The article is saying that the more the people travel the world and mix it's going to be even harder to figure out how original East Asian skin colors evolve. Scientists are trying to figure out why East Asians have light skin but lower skin cancer rates than Europeans. This can lead them into the answers on how to prevent skin cancer. The genes of how you get different skin colors is unknown. That is interesting how some genes in your DNA can completely change how a person looks. Its incredible how nature works when it comes to your body. Observations: In our Medical Terminology class one thing our teacher does for us so we can soak in all our medical terms, is she makes us take notes, look at pictures, and she basically explains what was on our textbooks but in a way that we can understand. Then she gives us a whole day to study, and use our CD’s, that have games in them, so we can learn our terms in a fun and better way. She even lets us ask questions, review, and we go over our material again. That’s something I think is really cool because for those of us who have trouble understanding those big words that tend to be in the medical field and in our textbook’s it’s going to be hard to try to do it all on our own at home, and not have at least one more class period to look over it and actually learn it. Having that extra class day where it’s quiet and you can actually study the material while having fun in class, and the teacher is there to help you, then that is a good opportunity to be able to have that extra day. I think in order to learn big terms like the variety we use in Medical Terminology, were you will need to know these terms for your job in the future, the only way to learn them is to not only study them at home but also go over them that whole day in class, one more time. Using words continuously and having two whole classroom periods to review everything in one chapter is better than trying to cram everything in students heads for only one whole class period.

September 4, 2012

Quote:

“In fact, most Americans are makers and takers- proud of our making, blind to our taking.”

~Michael Grunwald

This quote has a lot of meaning to me because the quote is in this article that I have chosen and I love the words the author has chosen. I believe it is true that we "are makers and takers", "proud of our making", and "blind" to what we take advantage of. I really like the word choice of the quote. I do believe that we work, and are proud of what we do and we take advantage not realizing what we take.

Article of current Event: 

"The Sun is shining on Miami Beach, and I wake up in subsidized housing. I throw on a T-shirt made of subsidized cotton, brush my teeth with subsidized water and eat cereal made of subsidized grain."

Grunwald, Michael. "One Nation On Welfare. Living You Life On The Dole." Time. 17 Sept 2012: 32-37. Print.

 I didn't really realized how much the government is involved in until I read this article. Everything I do every day is subsidized. It could even go into the air I breathe. It's clean because if the government wasn't involved in keeping it clean it would probably be polluted. There is not one thing I can think of that doesn't involve the government. I used to complain about my parents having to pay a lot of taxes, and that feeling can still be there at times, but this author's quote really made a huge learning experience for me. It made me realize how important government is in our lives. 

Observations:

In Anatomy the teacher allowed us to dissect frogs in our class and taught us the parts of the frog, and the functions of each organelle.  I enjoyed her allowing us to dissect frogs instead of just us virtually doing it without actually being able to really see or feel the organelles. I know some of us are not really a fan of dissections I am not one either, but the fact of actually having the frog right in front of us instead of just virtually doing it or having a whole lecture on the functions and organelles, made me want to do hands on activities in a class that I may teach one day.