C4T#4 Summaries

Dr. Genereaux's Blog-Comment #1
I've commented on his blog before and found that the recent post is very interesting and it makes me curious about the history of education. He discusses Seth Godin's book called "Stop Stealing Dreams" and how it relates to Napolean Hill's literature. I see how Seth Godin can think that there needs to be changes in education to keep up with the world. The world changes so fast and education definitely needs to keep up by using the best technologies available and teachers need to be aware of the changes going on as well to provide students the knowledge they will need to be successful. The two quotes are similar and have a great meaning to them. I also think that schools and even MOST older teachers (retirement age) are so set in their own ways of teaching, that they don't want to change by implementing new technologies and digital media into the classroom. This is why the fresh, newly taught teachers need to get hired as soon as possible and bring all this knowledge and skill into the classrooms and share it with every educator and supervisor around them!

Comment #2:
Dr. Genereaux's blog post that I commented on was about the William Perry's Levels of Development. The levels include: dualism, multiplicity, relativism, and commitment. Dualism is when you receive knowledge and everything is black and white. You get an answer, do what you have to do and then the job is done. Multiplicity is when knowledge is subjective and everyone's opinion is of equal value. Relativism is when we have to follow certain procedures and it doesn't really matter what we think. Commitment is where knowledge is constructed because it is interesting to us or we love it. He talks about how students get too comfortable and have a hard time moving forward to each level. But he helps them by supporting them.

Then he talks about a book "What The Best College Teachers Do" by Ken Bain. He notes that the best teachers excel at knowing where students are within these levels of development, and how best to help them at each level. He discusses a few students he has taught before and how they were different and what he did to satisfy or help them.