LBSU 304 Week 8 Education in the Age of the Internet Agenda
5:30-5:45
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Welcome Week 8-Read Aloud
Feedback/comments for DB 7, Writing
Task # 7, or class participation.
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5:45-5:50
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Tell your partner about what your
ideal educational experience looks like.
The experience can be a school for pre-K,
K-12, higher education, corporate training, or something else that you
create.
Consider online options, face to face
options, homeschooling, and new media technologies.
How much does your ideal education
cost? Is it public or private? Should
it be “open” online and, therefore, free?
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5:50-6:00
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Share ideas with the class-Think of a
key word or phrase that describes your ideal education.
Some ideas may be similar to “Learn By Doing” or “Freedom to Learn” or
“Digital Discussion Only.”
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6:00-6:10
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Writing Task # 8 Explanation
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6:10-7:10
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Watch all videos for the last week of
class
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RSA Animate
11:41
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Forget What You
Know 18:11
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Unschooling 1:
4:06
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Unschooling 2:
10:10
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Brookfield 1:29
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Andragogy 8:28
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7:10-7:20
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Choose one of the five questions to
discuss with your partner and then with the class.
These video clips suggest some
profound changes are taking place in the way children and adults are being
educated. Consider the following
questions as you write about what 21st century changes are
occurring for adults and children in education.
1.
What changes do
the videos (and readings) describe?
2.
Why do you
think these changes are taking place?
3.
How do you feel
about these changes? Explain.
4.
Will our
children be adequately prepared to compete in a global economy? Explain why
or why not?
5.
How do you
think these issues impact adult learners as opposed to children?
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7:20-7:40
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Discussion Board (Discussion in Class
for Week 8)
Please consider your
readings throughout the course and the weeks and topics that particularly hit
home for you. Additionally, you may wish to review the Brandman
University catalog the Degree Qualifications Profile by the Lumina Foundation
and pages 1-24 in College Learning for the New Global Century. Then
answer one the following:
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1. Describe the example from Week 1 (when you explained
your idea of a liberal arts education) as a reminder of your initial
thoughts. Explain whether or not that example is still relevant. How
would you word your post now?
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Here are some examples from DB # 1
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A Liberal Arts Education is:
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like my family
on the maternal and
paternal sides
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I think of play dough. Because a person will
decide what and who they want to be as they shape how their character.
Liberal says a lot of opportunity.
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like a Map
because although the Map includes so many states, and cities they each are
very different yet we can learn so much of each state or city.
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like a bag of flaming hot munchies,
it has a mixture of different chips like hot Cheetos, sun chips, Doritos and gold pretzels.
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the enjoyment
of learning of many different subjects and not just one major focus.
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like a road
map. It's like you have all these different paths you take, but eventually it
will lead you to your destination. It has all these different routes you can
take and you can try them all. Some may lead to dead ends and others will
take you down a path you enjoy, but it may not be your final destination.
Liberal Arts touches upon all these different subjects and it's up to you to choose
what you want to do in the end.
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I believe liberal arts to be a type of intellectual
buffet. Where a student can attain the basic knowledge of subjects or ideas
outside their major course work.
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is a mixture
of all the good stuff in education.
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the study of the core
subjects. This study is valuable because it makes for a well-rounded person
that has knowledge about a little bit of everything. An education in Liberal
Arts can be beneficial when having to “wear many hats” within an organization
due to the fact that the person has a variety of skills such as writing,
communicating, teaching, illustrating, etc.
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a wide variety of things
ranging from the artists ie.. drawing,
theater, music, etc. to history, sociology, and philosophy. It is more of an
action of doing something, though we sit in class and learn about it, the
whole goal is to create something positive
from it to have an effect on others in some way.
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somewhat of an art class
where you were allowed to freely paint.
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a broad
study that prepares students to work in many different jobs.
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a board game like chess. I
choose chess because it is a board game that requires critical thinking.
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you take a broader more world view within your studies. The lens is wider, the responsibility to educate, share and ethically go farther is a privilege to accomplish with pride and hard work.
An education in liberal arts, to me, has always received a lukewarm appreciation by most students and faculty alike when the comprehensive curriculum ought to have been lauded all along. When one decides to pursue an education in liberal arts they are choosing to become, academically speaking, a Jack or Jill of all trades, which may even lead into becoming a master at one or more.
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2. Now post a new example that considers how this course
changed your view of education.
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3. How do you see yourself applying what you learned in
this course to your own career or life in general?
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7:40-8:00
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What final assignments are due for
this class?
1.
If you
participated in class tonight, you do not need to complete the DB original
post by Wednesday at midnight and then two additional posts by Sunday at
midnight.
2.
Complete all
readings listed on BB
3.
Complete
Writing Task 8
4.
Please complete
your online evaluation
for this class!
Thank
you so much for a WONDERFUL session.
I look forward to seeing you again!
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