{"id":3317,"date":"2010-09-24T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goingeast.de\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2010-09-25T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T10:14:41","slug":"the-cognitive-processes-that-underlie-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"viewpoints on learning&#8230; and our education-systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/schank\/schank_p1.html\">At the beginning of my classes I usually ask students why they are in college and they tell me things like, &#8220;it is a four year vacation,&#8221; &#8220;the parties are goo d,&#8221; &#8220;it will get me a good job later,&#8221; &#8220;it is what everyone does so I never thought about an alternative&#8221; and so on. The issue of learning never comes up. Why is that? School isn&#8217;t really about learning at all. It is about certification. College students attend school to get a degree that they hope will get them something they want. They pick schools on this basis, and they attend school with the concomitant attitude. We never ask a student if he learned a lot, we ask how well he did. Self-evaluation is based on the judgment of others when it comes to &#8220;official&#8221; learning. Students feel they did well when others say they did well. It is the rare student who says that he learned a great deal and thus was very happy with his education.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u6Zxe6Fy3JY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u6Zxe6Fy3JY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bx0-2GCfOdo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bx0-2GCfOdo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socraticarts.com\/about\/SCCwhitepaper.pdf\">Every Curriculum tells a Story<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engines4ed.org\/hyperbook\/\">engines4ed.org\/hyperbook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/documents\/ThirdCulture\/q-Ch.9.html\">Information is surprise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of my classes I usually ask students why they are in college and they tell me things like, &#8220;it is a four year vacation,&#8221; &#8220;the parties are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/?p=3317\" class=\"btn btn-readmore\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;viewpoints on learning&#8230; and our education-systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,83,336,47,23,31,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answers","category-questions","category-stuff2-re-think","category-stuff2learn","category-stuff2read","category-stuff2thinkabout","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mykop.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}