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Check out this band. They will blow your mind. It's like contemporary art / music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqJaFD7_wQ

Trippy trippy stuff.


1. Difference between factual knowledge, thought provoking knowledge, and reasoned knowledge
A. Factual Knowledge is objective and definite
A. Current Status of Education
a. This is what education is, but it is not what it should be
b. Increase of information on internet renders the knowledge of factual knowledge not valuable because answers are easy to be found
c. Factual knowledge can be easily found. Rendering it worthless if the value of knowledge is based on supply and demand.
i. Acquiring knowledge is done to elevate one’s status in the work place/job hunt.
ii. People pursue knowledge as a means of getting a better job to make more money which leads to a “better” life.
iii. The study of factual knowledge is ultimately futile because factual knowledge is worthless due to the ease of acquiring this knowledge
d. Paulo Freire Banking Concept pgs 72-74

B. Better technology makes factual knowledge worthless
a. Internet makes once hard to find information easily accessible by anybody with an internet connection.
b. About 75% of Americans have access to the internet from home. (Nielson-Nielson)
c. Through websites like Wikipedia.com, encyclopedia.com and Google one can find almost any piece factual information they could ever need.
d. Counter argument could be that online sources are not reliable sources of information but the sheer quality of information on the internet can verify most information.
e. Calculators are demonstrating this process .
i. Today’s common calculators can perform more tasks
ii. The need to learn how to multiply, add, subtract can be replaced with the knowledge of how to use a calculator, which can be found online
iii. New calculators have the power to perform advanced forms of calculus. TI-Nspire
C. Dangers in Schools emphasizing factual knowledge
a. Actually is detrimental to the progression of learning
i. Treats students as second class learners having to learn and regurgitate facts that might not be true
ii. Removes the freedom to question information which is key in education –scientific method
iii. Does not allow students to be a contributing member of society because the knowledge the possess will never be greater than the information yielded by a Google search.


B. Thoughts are subjective
A. Ultimately more beneficial to learn how to do
a. Requires actual thought process not wikipedia
b. Requires critical thinking and deeper understanding
Come about from communication
Heuristic- Thought provoking work
Freire quotes on pg 73
c. Thoughts are ideas or how to accomplish
d. Similar to reasoned knowledge
e. I’m really starting to think this isn’t going to be beneficial at all to what I’m actually going to write about.
C. Reasoned Knowledge
A. Come from a combination of factual knowledge and thought provoking knowledge.
B.
1. Learning through Experience
a. Learning is best done when questions are allowed to be raised
i. Only through communication is real learning acquired
ii. When someone can explain something and have a conversation about it can they actually claim to know it.
b. Learning is best when the initial goal is to create thought (heuristic)Learning through discussion


EPIPHANY!!Metaphor comparing learning to playing a trumpet

Quote Metaphors we live by at the very beginning. Probably something that has something to do with how metaphors make learning concept easier to comprehend.

Try to simplify as much as possible. I want it to be easy to understand and not seem like some of the stuff from richter.

Compare simple concept like “Play in a group of musicians” to the necessity of communication and group work.

Going with that concept.
“Take lessons” to “Go to school.”
“Spend a lot of time practicing by yourself” to “Spend a lot of time practicing by yourself”“Can read about how to play but you will never know how to play” to “experience Is necessary.”
“Listen to others, put forth your own sound, and blend.” To “communication.”This is so brilliant I’m so proud of myself. More to come later.
Stephen Stanger

Abstract: In keeping with George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s belief that “metaphorical concepts can be extended beyond the range of ordinary literal ways of thinking and talking into the range of what is called figurative, poetic, colorful, or fanciful thought and language(Lakoff and Johnson, P. 14)” Stephen Stanger compares the concept of learning with playing a trumpet. Through this metaphor basic connections are made between the act of learning and the process of making music. By comparing these two arts Stephen Stanger suggests that the process of learning is a universal procedure with how we acquire knowledge. Through human interaction, critical thought, and through personal experience we attain information that allows us to further the betterment of our character and our quality of life as a whole.