Author: Samantha Weitzel

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Samantha Weitzel, Katherine Sola, Leann Carroll

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Samantha Weitzel, Katherine Sola, Leann Carroll

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Group: Katherine Sola, Leann Carroll, myself

In Ruthie’s discussion group we discussed what our motivation is for learning and how we learn best. We all agreed that everybody learns different ways and it is easier for some people to learn one way that may not work for others. The way we learn best is when topics are made interesting, or even making them interesting in your own mind to help motivate you to want to learn. A great way to motivate yourself to learn is working with a group. Work with people who are willing to talk about a topic and want to collaborate. This helps get other people’s point of view and make it more interesting bouncing ideas off of each other. We also talked about the last writing project and reflected on that and the upcoming writing project, discussing the different topics and what we are thinking about writing for them. We all hope to get an A so that we don’t have to write the last one!

Brandon, Gabe, Sara, Cait, Seamus, Haley, David, Sam, Amanda, Katherine

In our discussion group today we talked about how Freire thinks people learn and if we agree or disagree. We agreed that throughout Freire’s article he contradicts himself many times in his writing. He explains that to be taught you must learn from yourself and dig deep into things to actually learn from yourself. By what Freire says I think he means, to learn something you must understand it deeply enough that you can teach it to someone else so that you can fully take it in and understand it yourself. I do not agree with him. I believe that people can learn from each other. From face to face interaction and communication with somebody else. During our discussion we also talked about housing on and off campus, just because it came up. Many of us are looking for apartments next year, but they are very expensive so we will see where everybody ends up.

Group members: Katherine, Jeff, Josh, Leann

Today we discussed Friere’s points that “The teacher teaches and the students are taught” as well as, “the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing”. We all agreed that teacher can learn things from students and that teachers are not always right. When students put their own input into things they are learning it usually ends up being beneficial to other students that are in that class. Students that give their input may help their fellow classmates to learn and understand the topic better. Teachers also can learn from students. The way a student thinks versus the way a teacher thinks can be very different. When students express what they think and things they know the teacher can learn from that. Rather than the teacher only teaching, students can help expand other students knowledge by saying what they think. Students giving their input and ideas also engages them into conversation and it is more likely that they are going to retain the information they are being taught if it can be a discussion instead of sitting there and being lectured to.