From infancy to adulthood, organisms are always learning. The conscious and the subconscious are taking in information and sorting it, discarding irrelevant information and storing the relevant. The most common mode of gaining knowledge is through repetitions and memorization. These methods are effective for knowing exact definitions but do not develop understanding. In O Americano Outra Vez, Richard Feynman describes his teaching experiences while at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research. There he discovers the flaw in the modern education system, students are memorizing material but are unable to apply it to a real life scenarios, demonstrating they are gaining knowledge but not understanding it. Similar to Feynman’s Brazilian class, …show more content…
There is a fear that one will be looked down upon for asking questions because it is admitting you do not know or grasp a concept. This fear is present in all classrooms including Feyman’s, “It was a kind of one-upmanship, where nobody knows what’s going on, and they’d put the other one down as if they did know (56)”. To maintain a sense of pride, no one revealed their misunderstanding of topics choosing silence instead. This silence was also presented by the onlookers in the painting. Many expressed interest in the experiment, others sat quietly contemplating, another upset by the event, the child confused yet looking on without a word. The older gentleman conducting the experiment is asking his audience the importance of the experiment and what it teaches them about the bird, but none of them are answering, instead they turn to each other expectantly as if the other should know. Pride prevents many people from inquiring about matters they do not understand, especially when peers are present. Confined thinking takes place in the painting as well, shown by the small circle of light which highlights the observer’s faces. All present are thinking about what is happening to the bird but do not ask its implications or importance. They only focus on that exact moment, so their mind has only gained minimal information, which accounts for the partial illumination of the room. …show more content…
The benefits of this communication are varied perspectives influenced by one’s social class, gender, age and moral values. Within the painting all in attendance are from the same social class as shown by their clothes and hair styles. Both men and women are present ranging in age from the older gentleman on the right to the young girl. Most importantly, their facial expressions depict their varying reaction to an ethical issue. The young girl and her crying mother are the most illuminated in the entire painting representing their level of
In Sueños Americanos: Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities, Julio Cammarota studies Latina/o youth who live in El Pueblo, and talks about how Proposition 187, the anti-immigrant law, is affecting Latina/o youth in California (Cammarota, 2008, p. 3). In this book review, I will write about the two main points the author is trying to get across. The two main points I will be writing about are how Proposition 187 is affecting the Latina/o community, and about how Latina/o youth are copping in the El Pueblo barrio. Afterward I write about the two main points the author is trying to get across, I will write a brief description of the author and write about the author’s strengths and weaknesses.
The learning process in human beings is very natural, and we all want to learn from a very young age. Doctor Rita Smilkstein studied learning in humans for many years and has found this to be true. After reading this paper and learning about how the brain works during the learning process, you may be able to find a time in your life where you utilized the learning process, just as I began to think about how I have learned something using techniques similar to the NHLP. (“We're Born to Learn: Using the Brain's Natural Learning Process to Create Today’s Curriculum”)
Aristotle once claimed that, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Artists, such as Louise-Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun and Mary Cassatt, captured not only the way things physically appeared on the outside, but also the emotions that were transpiring on the inside. A part no always visible to the viewer. While both artists, Le Brun and Cassatt, worked within the perimeters of their artistic cultures --the 18th century in which female artists were excluded and the 19th century, in which women were artistically limited-- they were able to capture the loving relationship between mother and child, but in works such as Marie Antoinette and Her Children and Mother Nursing her Child 1898,
Berger makes his attempt to inform an audience with an academic background that there is a subjective way that we see things all around us every day and based on our previous experiences, knowledge, and other things that occur in our lives, no two people may see or interpret something in the same way. In the essay Mr. Berger uses art as his platform to discuss that we should be careful about how people look at things. Mr. Berger uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. These rhetorical strategies can really help an author of any novel, essay, or any literature to truly get the information they desire across to the audience in a clear and concise
Do students actually learn everything they are taught in class? In the article ‘O Americano Outra Vez” by Richard P. Feynman, he expresses his opinions toward the educational system in Brazil. While in Brazil, Feynman taught classes and sat through entry examinations to see how well students have retained the information. Feynman would ask questions that were answered simply but then when the question was said differently the student froze. Feynman exposed school systems for not being able to teach students how to properly learn .
...ause the look of curiosity of the girl extends beyond the frame. This gives the painting a sense of curiosity.
...n looking at the results, they found out that the learning curve was exponential. The researchers assumed that learning occurs while people study and encode material into the brain.
American Me is a film created by production companies Olmos Production, Universal Picture, and Y.O.Y directed by Edward James Olmos in 1992. The film is a fictional drama about the journey of a boy creating the Mexican Mafia in prison based on Rodolfo Cadena (Burnstein, 2016). Floyd Mutrux and Desmodo Nakano were the writers of the film who took information from two members of La Eme to create a storyline for the film. Edward James Olmos represents Montoya Santana life in prison and the co-creating the Mexican Mafia within it.
These cultural strictures come in a number of forms. First, the artist attacks intellectual conformity, choosing art over all other means of self-expression even though it is not widespread in his or her society. Though it is not explicitly stated - and is perhaps even subconscious - the artist chooses art over either academe or high society. The artist questions society's customs, making this choice explicit in their daily actions. The artist rejects ostentatious displays of wealth and the cultural emphasis on money, replacing it with a frugal simplicity more conducive to authentic experience. Finally, the artist calls into question the cultural construct most important to any understanding of human interaction - the binary conception of gender.
When analyzing artwork, in any form, there are often times social contexts in which can be interpreted. Not always does the history behind the painting need to be revealed to fully understand the concept of the artwork, yet it is helpful in determining if the artwork is truthful in its representation. Although in analyzing artwork it is likely that there are drawbacks to considering the social context. To illustrate this point, I'm going to use the visual arts as my medium of choice. Understanding the social context can be an important tool. An advantage of knowing the history of the painting or sculpture can really enrich our knowledge, being in the 21st century, about some of the social periods from previous times. It can demonstrate how traditions were carried out, how they had an impact on the different social classes. It's a visual teaching aid of a sort. Even in the time period of which the artwork was created can be used as a tool to show how the life was in different parts of the world. It was also used as a hammer in the realist movement to show the upper classes that life for the poor was horrible. The visual arts is the only medium in which the pictorial image creates a universal language in which anyone, regardless of nationality or social class can interpret. The text which is created by this language often creates a context which is left open to interpretation. Contexts are created by the artist, critics, judges, the public, essentially, any one who views the work and forms an opinion relating to it. The contexts stem from subject or content of an artwork, and are usually facts regarding the content. Yet, the contexts almost always have backgrounds themselves, therefore making the original contexts, texts. This will be more clearly illustrated later. The chain is seeming to be a never ending process. There are always more conditions to the previous ones. All context, therefore, is in itself, textual. This concept of all context in itself textual is a post-structuralist strategy. A man named Derrida is a man who has developed this idea that the post-structuralist concept of every statement made, can be interpreted in infinite ways, with each interpretation triggering a range of subjective associations. Every statement has an association, therefore it's a sort of domino effect.
...t find anything new. This description points out the hindrances on humans’ acquisition of knowledge because of our finite biological capacities.
Learning the proper terminology was competitive, fun and stimulating. It gave me something exciting to look forward to in class each week. In my opinion, making learning and growing fun is an excellent way to connect the student with the information. Now, when I’m focused on learning something new, my mind automatically remembers the term engram. I smile knowing there’s a “physical change occurring in my brain to form the basis of my memory” (Gluck et al., 2014, p. 56). There was another discovery that I made this weekend. Usually, I hear the fire siren in my neighborhood every Saturday at noon. This past Saturday, I didn’t notice it all, perhaps due to habituation. I’ve lived in my home for more than 15 years. It’s natural, at this point, that habituation would occur because it dev...
In order to understand and gain knowledge, learning theories stress the importance of creating a relationship between all pieces of information, the learner, and the environment. It is the responsibility of both the teacher and the learner to link the appropriate information together. If students can develop a relationship for the "underlying reasons for ‘how’ and ‘why’ to use specific procedures, they will be able to store this information as part of their knowledge network," and develop links with other pieces of information (Gersten and Baker, 1998, p.24). On the contrary, if learners learn facts of information that are isolated from a meaningful context, their understanding is often incomplete and meaningless. As a result of these linked relationships between individuals and environments, knowledge is the prevailing outcome. In summary, "knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the activity, context, and culture in which it is developed and used (Brown, Collins, and Duguid, 1989, p.32).
Art triggers emotions, and all human beings share the same hormones, which is why they have identical emotions. This creates a medium of communication that everyone can use and understand. No language, culture, age, or gender is a barrier. As part of my community-service experience, I visited Zanzibar with a volunteer group. My favorite project from that trip was painting a school wall with a diverse group of impoverished Africans. Throughout the entire experience, that was the first time I felt connected to them. We would usually read simple stories to African children, teach them simple math, or play simple sports with them. The gap between us and the African children was always there; we always felt different and it was extremely difficult to conduct conversation, because only a small portion of them would understand what we were trying to say. With painting the wall, however, no one found any difficulty with communicating. When we were done, I stood back to contemplate the art and noticed Sefu standing next to me, we both gave each other a look of satisfaction without saying anything. Mette Holme Ingeberg, Britt-Maj Wikstrøm, and Arild Berg (2012) studied the effect of art on communication in a hospital setting. Their study focused on how the use of art stimulated conversations between the nurses and the patients. They found out that “art can reveal stories from patients’ lives that staff otherwise may not have been able to access,”
Four decades of psychological research have taught us there is no one right way to learn. Our minds are as unique as our fingerprints. Our ability to learn is not necessarily related to high or low intelligence quotients, but rather a convergence of four important aspects of our perso...