EPSY 490 OL Wonderments
Wonderments
- I wonder if the behaviorist theory of learning and the constructionist theory of learning has a lot to do with age and maturity. Mayer 244
- I wonder if a freshman algebra class would be successful with an "only reward" policy. No punishments. Mayer 245
- I wonder if the students would consider "not taking away recess" a reward after getting used to it. mayer 247
- I wonder if it is nearly impossible to wean students off a token economy system effectively. Mayer 252
- I wonder if there is a way to use the grade as a token economy and then have the positive behavior be more linked to the grade as an outcome.
- I wonder if a lack of feedback results in students seeking out feedback Mayer 260
- I wonder if there is a middle ground in most students on the behavioralist/congnitive theories in concept learning. MAyer 262
- I wonder if skill learning leans on the behavorist side of things. Mayer 267
- I wonder if math should only be taught from a constructivist theory of learning. Mayer 269
- I wonder if educators know that our theories are based on some experiments with some cats. SKEP
- I wonder if we should have state standards that deal with behavior. SKEP
- I wonder if it is possible that a student would not see any reward greater than the acceptance of his peers, and the only way he gets that acceptance and attention is by acting out in class.
- I wonder if Fredric Jones ever had someone swear at him, he let it go, and didn't loose all respect from the rest of the class. SKEP
- I wonder where student ability levels falls into this equation.
- I wonder if certain models will work better for a certain ability of student
- I wonder how the studies can be based only on a single class or single grade of class
- I wonder if I am conditioning my students to behave badly by letting bad behavior to go on for too long
- I wonder if students condition each other.
- I wonder if students bring conditioning with them from middle school or earlier.
- I wonder if conditioning happens for a specific subject rather than the teacher
Wonderments
1. I wonder how my daughter is learning to read right now. She is almost 5. She knows how the letters sound and can look at the first letter of a word, notice the context and usually get it. The context is usually very obvious like a picture or we are talking about a certain subject. Is she learning with phonics? She doesn't usually sound out the rest of the word, so maybe it's a combination of phonics and whole word. (Meyer 46)
2. I wonder if my other daughter is going to dive into a whole word approach because of her surroundings. She doesn't do a lot of the sounding out but is always there when the older sister is saying what a word is. Will she get more of a whole word approach because of this? (Meyer 46)
3. I wonder how many words I read at a time. While reading through or assignments this week I kept thinking about how I read. I tried to pay attention to where my eyes focused. It was verymetacognative . I noticed that I would recognize phrases like "that the" or "at least" and glance by them quickly. Honestly it was almost impossible to read page 63 because all I could think about is whether or not I was doing what they were saying I was doing. (Meyer 56,63)
4. I wonder if speed readers get real good at scanning their eyes across the page. I wish I was a speed reader.
5. I wonder if I have reached a plateau in my typing skills. Looking at that graph of the telegrapher skills I feel like I am at that plateau. I am real good at seeking out letters but I don't feel like I am getting better at typing words or phrases. I think this is something I should work on. Meyer 47
6. I wonder if cognitive structures are also helpful in mathematics. Meyer 331
7. I wonder if this wonderment assignment serves as a pre-question or post-question type of adjunct questions. We are thinking about them before the reading, but also come up with them after the reading. (Mayer 334)
8. I wonder how Meyer felt about saying that "Signals are more effective for less skilled readers" in a signal. Meyer 341
9. I wonder how big of a part the creation of a mnemonic device is compared to the actual mnemonic device itself. Meyer 365
10. I wonder how many mnemonic devices actually end up hindering the learning because they focus more on the device than information. Meyer 365.
11. I wonder if student creation of structured strategies is possible without a good comprehension of the test already. Meyer 371
12. I wonder how I convince a group of high school students to ask questions about what they are trying to learn about. It seems impossible for them to admit that they don't know something. It also seems hard to give them a reason to come up with a question about what they are trying to learn. Meyer 391
13. I wonder if students understanding of a text will vary greatly if they both connect it with the same thing in the real world butinitially have a very different view of that real life thing. SKEP
14. I wonder if it's possible to get high up on the blooms taxonomy with reading comprehension by using only a limited amount of reading approaches. Does it take a lot of different ways or if one works well for you can that take you to the high levels of comprehension? SKEP
15. I wonder if it is difficult to assess understanding when students are only relating the meaning to their own life experiences and these experiences are foreign to the teacher. SKEP
Wonderments
- I wonder how the head start program is held accountable (401).
- I wonder how all children can be given educational experience when the are at home 95% of the time.(402)
- I wonder how to get education into homes.
- I wonder what kind of negative affect the "different ingellegences" movement had.(402)
- I wonder if Polya's four-step procedure can be used for longer type problems like using the quadratic formula(404
- I wonder if all my students have forgotten that they can solve problems on thier own (412).
- I wonder if we should have a minister of intelligence at our school (422).
- I wonder if the economy would be stronger with a good apprenticeship program in the US.(435)
- I wonder if students should enter an apprenticeship program after failing algebra twice.
Wonderments
- I wonder if Rogers theory holds true for my algebra students who have failed math up to this point.
- I wonder if we will ever get away from standardized tests.
- I wonder what we are to do as teachers when a need has not been met.
- I wonder how we can teach when most needs have not been met.