Thursday, March 17, 2011

Chapter 3

1. I think this quotation means that students and people learn on their own. It doesn't matter how many times something is explained or shown, it is up to them to push themselves to participate, to read, to experiment, or do whatever they are comfortable with to understand the material. In order to learn you have to put yourself out there and be part of the lesson. You can't just sit behind a desk listen to the teacher once and say you learned the material.
2. I have written answers that I thought my teacher would like just because I was scared to speak my mind. I always thought that we were not allowed to disagree with the teacher until I was in the middle of my high school years and I decided to speak up. I feel that it is very common to put an answer down just because they think the teacher wants that. I think this because there are people like me who are afraid to go against the teacher. In reality teachers like when their students form an opinion and speak their mind and a lot of times teachers play opposite sides to start a discussion with the class.
3. I think Mr. Wilson didn't correct the procedure so his students could learn from their mistakes. If he had corrected i right on the spot and stopped the students from continuing on with their plan, then they wouldn't learn, would experience, and wouldn't experiment and the whole lab would be a waste of time.
4. I could bring in rocks, fossils, seeds from trees, flowers, maybe even a cat I have a whole garage of stray cats =)

No comments:

Post a Comment