Reflection

Overall, I thought that this course was benefitical.  I am glad I got to do another reseach paper because it was been a few years since I have had to do and and it was good to brush up on my skills.  I believe this class was a low stress class and the projects were easy to accumulate a lot of points on.  Hopefully I got an A :) ;)

Have a Merry Christmas and a sucessful new year Enjoy you're break..it is definately much needed!

Words I Know/Do not know

artifacts	yes
assumptions	yes
authority	yes
Confessional tale	no
context	yes
culture	yes
dialect	yes
discourse community	no
ethnographic research	yes
ethnography	no
field research	yes
Human Subjects Review Board	no
Impressionist tale	no
informed consent	yes
informant	yes
interactions	yes
interviews	yes
marginalization	yes
participant-observer	yes
positioning	yes
proxemics	no
questionnaire	yes
Realist tale	no
research question	yes
response rate	yes
rituals	yes
specialized vocabulary	yes
structured observation	yes
subculture	yes
survey	yes
theory	yes
thick description	yes
transcript	yes
triangulation	no
underlife	no

Subcultural Groups

Black Friday
Coffee
Walmart
Cheerleading
Swimmin
A grade level
El Ed teacher
Taylor Swift

Reseach Paper Titles

Prekindergarten: Benfits to Young, Old and Everyone in Between

Prekindergarten: The most Important Grade

How I Draft

When I start to draft the first thing I do is turn on my itunes and organize my notecards.  After my notecards are in order I start to type.

Progress

I am very excited about my paper and find my topic of Preschool very interesting. I am find a lot of facts that I was very unaware of and also finding out how important early education really is.  I am making good progress.

Guest Speaker

I thought the speaker was knowledgeable in his subject area and an entertaining to listen to and watch.  He kept my attention for the majority of the time because of his enthusiastic voice and he also moved around a lot.  His visuals also kept my attention

Cyberliteracy

I believe the most interesting part of Cyberliteracy was the part about Purple Moon.  When I was about nine I was OBSESSED with Purple Moon. There were two different games, Rockett’s New School and Secret Paths in the Forest.  These games involved narrative structure, social emotional issues, and the development of personal character. Purple moon was started in 1996 by Brenda Laurel.  She had spent many years researching how girls play on the computer and discovered the sequence is "play, die, start over."  I really liked reading about this section because it brought back a lot of good childhood memories and it was interesting to know the story behind one of my favorite things of the past.

Annotation

Temple, Judy A., and Arthur J. Reynolds. "Benefits and costs of investments in preschool education: Evidence from the Child–Parent Centers and related programs." Economics of Education Review 26.1 (2007): 126-144. Education Research Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

            This article discusses the benefits of preschool programs but looking into 3 different types.  It gives strong evidence that the consistently positive economic returns of high-quality preschool programs exceed most other educational interventions, especially those that begin during the school-age years such as reduced class sizes in the elementary grades, grade retention, and youth job training.

Top 3 Research Ideas

1. Preschool matters

2. Childhood depression

3. The importance of early education

Second Chance Summary: The southpaw's secret semantics

Vecchio, Rick. "On Their Own Time: In Peru, Punctuality is a Myth." Psychology Today July/Aug. 2007: 31. Print.

The southpaw's secret semantics is an article written by Shannon Brownlee.  This article tells about how come experts claim that left-handers conceive language is a very different way than right-handers. Many scientists argue over whether language is the result of environment or genes. Other scientists believe that children learn language by hearing language continuously and they absorb the meaning of words and their infinite uses. The article then goes on to say that researchers have long known there are vast differences between left and right handed people.  For right hander’s, the left side of the brain is dominant and for left hander’s the right side of the brain is dominant.  Whatever happens to during the brain development to produce left-handedness also makes an uncommon mix of mental assists and deficits.  Evidence shown in this article is what makes scientists believe that genes for handedness is possibly linked to the brain's organization of language, and that psychologists hope to one day be able to use PET scans to prove or disprove this theory. Understanding different cognitive styles may help pin down the roles nature and nature play in the ability that defines us human language.

College: A Time of Wonder

This story starts off by talking about a person's first year in college.  The person usually has a mixed bag of emotions about leaving home and going to college.  The main emotions are being scared,  nervousness, and excitment.  The articale talks about how schools should try to make student's first year easier by having activities and programs that will help the student learn how to handle different sitauations they may be involved in in the future.  College is only 4 years, it's too short to be scared and nervous and not live it up.

Public Intellectual

I believe Oprah Winfrey is a stong example of a puplic intellectual.  She is on the 20th and final seasons of her ever popular "Oprah Winfrey Show"   She has covered every topic under the sun and has touched so many poeples lives and given so much to those is need.  She rallys for public candidates and is the most influential woman in the world.

Exercise 1.1

Gas Prices: Are high gas prices impacting businesses becasue people do not want to drive as much?

Technology: Should students be allowed to use cellphones. ipods, and laptops in a classroom setting?

Oil Spill: What did the recent oil spill really do to our oceans and ocean life?

What is Literacy?

I believe literacy is how well an individual can read and comprehend the material that was read.