EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
September 18, 2008
Long Island University, C. W. Post
September 18, 2008
Although I enjoyed the first two of Dr. Boyanton’s classes, I was content to have a lecture last night; but this was more than a lecture. Since I started reading the textbook, I have been overwhelmed with the amount of information there is to absorb. Dr. Boyanton summarized the readings and applied real life situations to what we are learning. That is why I feel I learned “life” lessons in this class.
We were learning about Erikson’s phases of life and our professor suggested to read about Dr. Denmark. I did and was very impressed. Dr. Denmark is 110 years old. As of 108, due to an eye condition, she started working from her daughter’s home, doing phone consultations to patients. She is a pediatrician who helped develop the pertussis vaccine (whooping cough.) Instead of living in despair, she is living with integrity and will leave a wonderful legacy behind. Dr. Denmark makes me realize, I am not, and will never be too old to learn new things or start a new career. She is an inspiration to me. In contrast, our professor told us about her aunt who is living in despair and waiting to die. She needs to keep living her life until it is really over.
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Listening to these examples, helps me to remember the concepts that Erikson shows in his life chart. These stories also help me understand life better. We wrote down our own stages of life and compared it to Erikson’s, with a partner. Ours seemed to match up pretty well to his.
To learn more about Piaget, we did an experiment. We looked at a list of words and were told to remember as many as we could. First I was trying to relate words together like a story, but my brain became too confused. Then I sorted them by category. I remembered 15 items in different categories, such as people in a family. My brain works like his theory, by classifying things into groups. Other people had other ways of remembering.
To learn more about Piaget, we did an experiment. We looked at a list of words and were told to remember as many as we could. First I was trying to relate words together like a story, but my brain became too confused. Then I sorted them by category. I remembered 15 items in different categories, such as people in a family. My brain works like his theory, by classifying things into groups. Other people had other ways of remembering.
By applying these theories to our own lives, helps us to understand and remember what we are actually learning in class.
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