Well, 'tis the end of the term...well it's very close anyways! I know there are still two more classes left for EDPY, and I am kind of sad about it. I actually enjoyed the class and I do like this blog assignment. I know at first, when I was trying to blog on this class, I found it difficult and just felt like just kind of retyping my notes. I would have very little interaction but near the end, I found I could use ideas from my other education classes to go with this class.
I enjoyed the TED videos. Thought they were very helpful and relevant to what we were discussing in class. I thought that it was really cool that at some point or another, all my classes crossed paths at some point or another. It was so cool. Each class was reinforcing another class' ideas and the like. Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner, reinforcements, Bloom's, Newton, Calvin, etc. all crossed paths at some time. Their ideas were reinforced and also I was able to see different lights for each one. It was sometimes hard to see one side from another (especially in from a historical view to an educational view....I struggled with John Calvin and his sides I saw).
I wish our class spoke more freely that just us few that always participated in class. It would have been nice to have large class discussions, instead of trying to fish for someone to even talk.
I like Robert as a professor. I enjoyed my time in class. He is very helpful and willing to help us out when we ask or need it. I loved how he would get so excited over such things. It was cool.
I will be using my flash cards for the exam (my whole stack of them!) as we break for the finals. I was impressed how my first exam was 60% and then I jumped to 91%. I was literally dumbfounded by that, considering how I felt after the last exam. Actually, this last month I have been rocking at my assignment and exams and I am not sure how I am doing it. I hope it continues into the finals!!!!
All-in-all, it was an excellent term.
