Welcome to my blog for Educational Psychology. So far I am really enjoying this class. We are learning a lot already about the psychological aspects of education. Today we learned about child development and the different viewpoints there are about how and what effects a child's development. There is the very controversal and well known idea of nature versus nurture, however there is also continuity versus discontinuity and early versus late experiences.
In this class we also watched the film "Paper Clips" which is a documentary about a school in Whitwell, Tennesse that did a project to learn about the holocaust. It was actually interesting because this week at the Decorah Area Middle School they were having a underground railroad activity. In this activity, students that were learning about slavery all became fugitive slaves for the day. They had to go around all day without laughing, smiling or talking to get signatures from teachers. The teachers were all secretly either friend or foe. If the students got three friend signatures they were set free, however if they got three foe signatures they got sent to one teachers room to become slaves again. I think that it is really important to be creative and be able to make the topic come alive for students, especially with history because it is so long ago that its hard to relate to modern day. Well that is all for today. Hope you enjoyed my blog entry and that you come back for more information on how my class is going.
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