Boys and Girls Learen Differently

The two activities that we did in the beginning of the presentation were really cool. I liked how each activity demonstrated to some degree the differences between the thought process and problem solving processes between boys and girls. The rest of the presentation went really well although I did not see the connection between some of the topics and the activities that we did at the beginning. It was also a little hard to get a good idea of what each station had to present as the noise level was a little high for some and others the time was cut short. Overall I think that they did a good job presenting and I enjoyed most of it.

Student Oriented Curriculum

From what I gather, this book fosuced on assessment and curriculum. There were some really neat ideas about having students create portfolios and have student lead conferences. I like this idea a lot and I think that it is important that students are able to take on more of this responsibility as they grow and mature into young adults. I know that in higher grade levels of my education students started to maek their own portfolios. It was cool as students would know as soon as they got a piece of work back whether they were going to use it in their portfolios or not. It was also a really good way for us to gauge our understanding and mastery of material.

A Whole New Mind

I really enjoyed this book presentation. I thought that all the presentors did an excellent job finding and presenting resources that were relevant to their sections. One of the things that I enjoyed was that even though we were learning about the book we were also learning about ourselves and what our strengths and weaknesses were. For example, I found it very interesting how I was extremely right brained. I mean it made a lot of sense and helped explain why I learn the way the I do. I also really liked the empathy test. I found it very interesting to see not omly my outcome but the outcome of others in my group.