During this course, i learned lots of skills for my language and academic learning, also my teacher correct and point out many of my mistakes, it was extremely important to me. Although when i starting this course i found many of the challenge of the study, not only for discuss the problem with my classmate, also for the contact with teacher. By the way, right now i am solve all of these questions and start enjoy this learning atmosphere.
Grammar : English Grammar is complex, making it difficult to remember, master and use logically.
Vocabulary: Is often a challenge, particularly when it comes to verb variations and understanding which tense should be used in various situations.
Slang and colloquialism: With the English language having such an extensive vocabulary and complicated grammar.
Pronunciation: Knowing how to pronounce words in English can be very difficult as it isn't always obvious.
Variations in English: The variations in the different forms of English can often be difficult to understand.
Until now, i already did my preferred learning styles, my language learning goals and some strategies to support those goals, approach to recording about learning vocabulary, my own "Diigo" research and two listening text and comment.
Experience of the various assessment components
Formulating Statements of Intended Learning Outcomes – statements describing intentions about what students should know, understand, and be able to do with their knowledge when they graduate.
Developing or Selecting Assessment Measures – designing or selecting data gathering measures to assess whether or not our intended learning outcomes have been achieved. Includes
Direct assessments – projects, products, papers/theses, exhibitions, performances, case studies, clinical evaluations, portfolios, interviews, and oral exams – which ask students to demonstrate what they know or can do with their knowledge.
Indirect assessments – self-report measures such as surveys – in which respondents share their perceptions about what graduates know or can do with their knowledge.
Creating Experiences Leading to Outcomes – ensuring that students have experiences both in and outside their courses that help them achieve the intended learning outcomes.
Discussing and Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning – using the results to improve individual student performance.
Noami Oreskes is a professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She received her PhD at Stanford in 1990 in the Graduate Special Program in Geological Research and History of Science.In her 2004 paper published in Science, "Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,” Oreskes analysed nearly 1,000 scientific journals to directly assess the magnitude of scientific consensus around anthropogenic climate change. The paper was famously cited by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truth and led Oreskes to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Oreskes is the co-author of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, which looks at how the tobacco industry attempted to cast doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer, and the 2014 book The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View from the Future, which looks back at the present from the year 2093. Both are written with Erik M. Conway.
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First of all, i am agree with her, we need to understand the things trough the scientists and the need to explain us how they discovered a explain it. Our basis for trust in science is actually the same as our basis in trust in technology, and the same as our basis for trust in anything experience. Our trust in science should be based on evidence, and scientists have to become better communicators. They have to explain to us not just what they know but how they know it. We have to become better listeners.
Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.
In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."
What others say?
“Derek Sivers is changing the way music is bought and sold. A musicians' savior. One of the last music-business folk heroes.” — Esquire
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I agree with Derek Sivers about his argument that keeping your goals to yourself makes you more likely to achieve them. Sivers uses logos by explaining the experiment in which 163 participants were tested to see how long and how hard they would work towards their goals if they announced them vs if they didn't. The results proved his point, those who announced their goals on average working 12 minutes less than those who did. Although sometimes telling people your goals does help motivate you, Derek Sivers explains that this is caused by telling people them in a way that gives you no satisfaction, not allowing your mind to believe that your goal has already been achieved.
As deputy director of the University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sophie Scott seeks out the neurological basis of communication, whether it’s speech or vocalised emotion.
As a pioneering researcher in the science of laughter, she’s made some unexpected discoveries -- including that rats are ticklish, and that the one tactic that’s almost guaranteed to get someone to laugh is to show them someone else laughing. But as an occasional stand-up comedian with UCL’s Bright Club, she shows that she’s no slouch at getting laughs herself.
What others say?
“For Scott, laughter is more than displaying amusement -- it's a primal way of showing people that we like them and want them to like us.” ” — CNN.com, October 15, 2013.
What i think?
I think laughter is like an emotional orgasm or a palpable release of stress. Laughter is like crying. It evokes a response but without context it doesn't have actionable meaning (other than what we project).Laughter is a response to humour, and it isn't innately positive, for example, racist and sexist jokes (demean people), insult comedy (can bully people), satire (humorous from the perspective of the author and the intended audience). But like any strong emotion, I believe it's important we consider the source of our response.
Entrepreneur Scott Dinsmore left life at a Fortune 500 company to help others do work that they love. After researching what thousands of employees truly wanted out of life, he founded the organization Live Your Legend. As the Chief Experimenter, he not only supplied practical career tools but connected more than 100,000 people worldwide to encourage each other's dreams -- putting community at the center of success. Dinsmore died in September 2015 while on a year-long trek around the world. His legacy will live on through his passion, dedication and strong community of dreamers and doers.
What i heard from his speech
Somebody said 'you are where you want to be', if you are not happy enough with your job, and you change job, it's because you just wanted to do it, if you don't, it's because you didn't want to. Free will. Combining passion and will is a matter of luck, the right moment, the right degree, the right person, the right place... But, when your family depends on what you do, free will becomes secondary, love for them is first. 'The Pursuit of Happyness' comes to my mind, leaving everything for a dream, even not having a bed where to sleep and something to eat seemed worth it for the sake of that persuit, that was a risk with a happy end. Some people were born to dream and others to live, personal decision.
Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.” It is a social bookmarking program that allows you to save your ‘favourites’ online, so that they can be accessible from any computer with an internet connection. However, Diigo does much more than this.
The outliner function of Diigo is really useful to: 1. help you organise your thoughts ( brainstorming and planning ) 2. keep track of your references ( evaluating which are useful or not )
( Here is the example to showing how to use outliner function of Diigo )
As you read on the web, as well as bookmarking websites, you can also highlight parts of web pages that are of particular interest to you. Or, you can attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages. These highlights and sticky notes are persistent – whenever you return to the original web page, you will see your highlights and sticky notes superimposed on the original page, just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a book!
Finally, here is the link for you. If you wanna use the Diigo.
According to Jasmina Hasanbegovic，“learning strategies refer to Studentsself-generated thoughts, feelings, and actions, which are systematically oriented toward attainment of their goals”. Therefore, implementation of appropriate learning strategies is related to student's self-regulation behavior which in turn should be encouraged by pedagogical designs. ( http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Learning_strategy) What are different types of learning strategies?
3Powerful Learning Strategies
1. Spaced PracticeSpace out your studying over time.
Far too many students wait until the night before a test to study for it. Similarly, teachers often wait until the day before a test to review. When enough students score well on the test, it appears they have learned the material. But a few weeks later, most of that information has vanished from students’ minds. For more durable learning, the studying has to take place in smaller chunks over time.
2. Retrieval PracticePractice bringing information to mind without the help of materials.
Many people think of “studying” as simply re-reading notes, textbooks, or other materials. But having the information right in front of us doesn’t force us to retrieve it from memory; instead, it allows us to trick ourselves into thinking we know something. Recalling information without supporting materials helps us learn it much more effectively.
3. ElaborationExplain and describe ideas with many details.
This method asks students to go beyond simple recall of information and start making connections within the content. Students should ask themselves open-ended questions about the material, answer in as much detail as possible, then check the materials to make sure their understanding is correct.
In our 5th week of the academic literacies class, we do the most interesting discussion which is board and online engagement. For my opinion, I would like to choose online learning for my prefer, by the way, I am not deny with the classroom learning is worse than online learning.
Here is my opinion about online learning and classroom learning. ONLINE LEARNINGStrength: 1.You can learning online in everywhere (only need the internet) 2.You can study every time and reasonable arrangement your time 3.Even you have some problems during the learning online, you can back to watch again, which means you have second chance to understand (if you very shy to ask teacher your question) Weakness: 1.If you learning online, you can only discuss by words, by the way, you can face to face in the classroom. Here is my opinion about online learning and classroom learning. CLASSROOM LEARNINGStrength: 1.Study at classroom, you can discuss by face to face. (more cooperation and communication) 2.You would get more interact with your classmate and teacher.
Weakness: 1.You should go to class on time, if something like the traffic delay, you will be late, and you will miss some knowledge when you walking on the way.
(All the opinion by my own, and it's only for looking)
In our last lesson, Mr.Bass gave us a simple test about our understanding and analysis skill. That was a nightmare, I was only heard a topic---Humblr Pencil and a little bit history about humble pencil. OMG, even after the speak over, I am still in a state of confusion, and I only write two sentences in my book, i don't know what things just happen, but i am sure lisening and collect the main words are a challenge for me, i can only write some key words but never can write sentences about what i heard. So, right now, i need to improve my listening skills, because i don't wanna the similar things happen again.
My preferred learning style
I finished the quiz in this Thursday which is "DISCOVER YOUR PREFERRED LEARNING STYLE", and I knew my preferred leaning style is VISUAL. The visual learning style, often referred to as the spatial learning style, is a way of learning in which information is associated with images. If you use the visual style, you prefer using images, pictures, colors, and maps to organize information and communicate with others. For myself, I prefer to use mind maps, and use color and pictures in place of text, wherever possible, also the visual journey or story technique helps me memorize content that isn't easy to 'see.' That is what l learned before, and that is my preferred learning style--VISUAL.
In this Thursday, our teacher crated a class which is a relation vocabulary tool to improve our vocabulary. First time when i use that vocabulary tool, it just give some questions about words, and it's make me confused, because i hate do the questions like that, so i am very reluctant to do a question, after that i find a very interesting thing of this tool, it will gave you detail explain about the question word, that was pretty good. When i finished a set of questions, i got a new word from the question---"Tattoo", and i got the meaning form that tool. Tattoo means a permanent design made on skin with a needle and ink. So i understand that word right now and i put that word into my vocabulary list. By the way, the vocabulary list also can help you review all of the words you don not understand. Finally, i wanna share this link for you guys, because i think it will help you improve yourself. https://www.vocabulary.com/
I am just finished the quiz which is "DISCOVER YOUR PREFERRED LEARNING STYLE", and I knew my preferred leaning style is VISUAL.
What is the Visual Learning Style?
The visual learning style, often referred to as the spatial learning style, is a way of learning in which information is associated with images. This learning style requires that learners first see what they are expected to know. People with a visual learning style are often referred to as visual-spatial learners.
If you use the visual style, you prefer using images, pictures, colours, and maps to organize information and communicate with others. You can easily visualize objects, plans and outcomes in your mind's eye. You also have a good spatial sense, which gives you a good sense of direction. You can easily find your way around using maps, and you rarely get lost. When you walk out of an elevator, you instinctively know which way to turn.
Some Good Idea
The whiteboard is a best friend (or would be if you had access to one). You love drawing, scribbling and doodling, especially with colours. You typically have a good dress sense and colour balance (although not always!).
Learning and techniques
If you are a visual learner, use images, pictures, colour and other visual media to help you learn. Incorporate much imagery into your visualizations.
You may find that visualization comes easily to you. This also means that you may have to make your visualizations stand out more. This makes sure new material is obvious among all the other visual images you have floating around inside your head.
Use colour, layout, and spatial organization in your associations, and use many 'visual words' in your assertions. Examples include see, picture, perspective, visual, and map.
Use mind maps. Use colour and pictures in place of text, wherever possible. If you don't use the computer, make sure you have at least four different colour pens.
Systems diagrams can help you visualize the links between parts of a system, for example major engine parts or the principle of sailing in equilibrium. Replace words with pictures, and use colour to highlight major and minor links.
The visual journey or story technique helps you memorize content that isn't easy to 'see.' The visual story approach for memorizing procedures is a good example of this.
Peg words and events come easily to you, however you need to spend some time learning at least the first ten peg words. Afterwards, your ability to visualize helps you peg content quickly.
The swish technique for changing behaviour also works well for you, as it relies on visualization.
