Author: Amanda Regan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m0gTaFgCRKrHcNqube3JxUc5j-oAhDsYHqdnnBGHSNs

Praise: Your intro is very strong and your subtopics are good

Constructive: Try to incorporate Percy more and analyze your quotes

Percy: You chose good quotes to back up you points.

Constructive: Wording is a little awkward, try and grab the reader’s attention right in the beginning

Positive: You have very strong points throughout your paper

Percy: Try to analyze Percy a little more and incorporate it into your subpoints

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nELz8_IM56SkFCIt3eiDPIIFjOoHPpwAZRe53ewBfzY/edit?usp=sharing

Praise: I like how you elaborate on what these groups will be doing.

Constructive: I would try to have a more clear thesis stating your points

Percy: I like how you incorporated Percy in this topic and how strong it supports your point.

Praise: Clubs is a great example of learning outside the classroom and I like how you incorporated your major into your example

Percy: I think this is a great use of Percy to really help support your idea.

Constructive: Provide examples to help support your point of a work study job.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/112VFUvqwSHLvjpMPHS6qrI70vCztO7quNB3oKUgDdls/edit?usp=sharing

Maddie Barker

Criticism: I would make your thesis a little stronger but it is a good idea.

Percy: This quote from Percy is a great one to use for your ideas. I think you can use this for strong support for your thesis. This is a great use of Percy.

Praise: I like how you explain which classes can help with different aspects for things other than your major.

Laura McGroary

Percy: You have a good use of Percy in your thesis. It shows you will be connecting your ideas to his

Constructive: Be a little more clear on what they experience when they arrive.

Praise: I like this quote and I think it will be good to use to support your ideas.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10xl8SzFh1ZgAn5wXOo1woPXkiZMPcv87c0uqSdfAWgY/edit

Nik: Leader

Liv, Seamus, Sarah

In this discussion we discussed topic 2 for our next writing project which was learning outside the classroom. We pointed out the biggest issue that many students have, which is that we feel we have so much time on our hands, when in reality we are just procrastinating. We have to take advantage of the resources we have outside of the classroom since we only truly get 15 hours inside the classroom which is much less than highschool. We said that utilizing the peer tutoring,clubs, and the library can really enhance the students ability to learn outside of sitting at a desk in a classroom. It develops a different atmosphere which can help the students focus and learn more. We also discussed how we will connect these ideas to Percy and how we will connect this topic to the way West Chester students learn.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bebYHZmIp9WpVqBm-eMK-ogsqmZZssFWuhoxfLGigKk/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJK9uL3Q-kFQXj4LfEI6qoSKRTOc83W0GeJpYrRooDs/edit?usp=sharing

Topic: Topic 3

Team Selection: Amanda Regan

Thesis: In Paul Freire’s, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, he talks about how a relationship between an educator and a student enhances the knowledge and understanding of topic through the communication and styles of teaching. Here at WCU, teachers use different techniques for the understanding, and enhancement of the students’ ability to learn in order to relate to the society they grow up in.

Quotes:

• “Narration (with the teacher as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into “containers,” into “receptacles” to be “filled” by the teacher. The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are.”
• “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the “banking” concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing, and storing the deposits. They do, it is true, have the opportunity to become collectors or cataloguers of the things they store. But in the last analysis, it is the people themselves who are filed away through the lack of creativity, transformation, and knowledge in this (at best) misguided system. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”
• “The banking concept does not admit to such partnership—and necessarily so. To resolve the teacher-student contradiction, to exchange the role of depositor, prescriber, domesticator, for the role of student among students would be to undermine the power of oppression and serve the cause of liberation.”

Leader: Bella D

Followers: Maura Kelly, Gwen Jordan, Mia Citerone, Emily Foley, Ava Hill, John C, Makayla M, Ethan S, David H, Julia G, Liv V

In our discussion we talked about the quote “Here no one teachers another, nor is anyone taught. People teach each other.” We talked about how one can not just casually give knowledge to someone because they won’t understand it if you are just throwing it all at them. We also discussed that you have to experience things in order to gain knowledge of it. This quote really focuses on the fact that you learn more from teaching others than you do from being taught. Each person has a different way of learning, so we can’t expect people to understand things the same way. Engaging in conversation is a crucial way of teaching because communication is the key to teaching. Whether people teach themselves, or others, it is different for every person to process and learn the information, so communication is key to understanding what is being taught.

Today’s discussion group included Haley Clark, Sabrina Lindley, Olivia Vearling, Sarah Veneziale, Meghan Kidd, Seamus Corkery, Ava Hill and myself.

We discussed the topic that humans are like robots when it comes to processing information. It is seen that humans are supposed to consume the information and spit out the answer right after. I agree with this topic because I feel students are not given enough time or enough information to process what they are learning. Instead, they are expected to know the answer right away. This not only plays a role in the classroom, but in the regular world as well. Humans are expected to have an answer for everything right away instead of being given time to process the information. We discussed the fact that people are always pressured to make the right decision or give the right answer right away which is why it can be seen that we are robots. Teachers will randomly call on students when they don’t volunteer because they don’t know the answer but are still expected to know it. This can be seen as a way of learning but this puts so much pressure on the student to be able to compute information as soon as they learn it which is what a computer or robot can do. Therefore, I agree that students are viewed as robots because they must be able to process the information as soon as it is given to them.