Prep for the salon... saloon would be cooler.

So I figured the best way to show my preparation for the final would be to post my notes I’ve taken as I paroused the blogs trying to find themes. So here you go…

UNIT 1 FOLK KNOWLEDGE

Self Directed Learning

• hunter diaries
• folk knowledge is more than just skills
• it’s an integral part of family and cultural identity
• Sibo Gomero
• Folk knowledge is so effective, we are often unaware of the folk knowledges around us
• R2D2 – whistled languages
• Folk knowledge being lost

Other’s Blogging

• Alicia (institutionalized freedom)
• Folk knowledge as part of cultural identity
• Being lost in much of western world
• Shuan ( the hive)
• Learned skateboarding
• Folk = way to overcome fears (more personal)

Collaborative Learning

• Group synopsis – general consensus =

Projects/Activities

• Teaching
• Accidental teaching
• Baseball, cooking, lots of folk knowledges are unintentional
• Children’s curiosity and energy
• Parent’s sense of responsibility
• Learning
• Physicality of folk learning
• Master/apprentice relationship

UNIT 2 ORAL KNOWLEDGE

Self Directed Learning

• Mesopotamian religion
• Fluidity of cannon = orally transmitted beliefs
• Story, song
• Based on personal experiences with the numinous
• Treasures of Darkness
• Encounters with other worldly things
• Transmission of these accounts makes up primitive religeon

Other’s Blogging

• Alex (in the know)
• Super fresh Gilgamesh
• Creation of language and oral traditions
• Evolutionary model – as man becomes more intelligent, he starts developing more effective forms of communicating. Orality has to have been a quantum leap forward ( possibly more so than any other knowledge system )
• Madison ( enlightened )
• Myths make the world go around
• Myths = explanation of unexplainable, unifier across culture and

Collaborative Learning

• Oral recitation project
• Connection to a text***
• Text of orality
• Memorization as learning style
• Bardic schools in class
• Today’s memorization more lists than texts

Projects/Activities

• Recitation project
• Different note taking in chem. class

UNIT 3 WRITTEN KNOWLEDGE

Self Directed Learning

• Adiabene
• Written religion provides stability
• Consistency
• Sustainability
• Oops
• Medium has a huge effect on subject of writing
• Difficulty to write/need to preserve give and take
• Subjects chosen to preserve as barometer for society’s values

Other’s Blogging

• Andrew (lost Diadem)
• Beautiful Writing
• Writing a way of judging ppl
• Mechanics can be so different between written languages even though the effects of are the same – mechanics of writing have little to do with written knowledge itself
• Andrew (carpe diem)
• Asia movable type
• Printing introduces a lot more logistics.
• As knowledge becomes more commercial, it loses intrinsic value
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Collaborative Learning

• Rosetta project
• Economy of writing systems

Projects/Activities

• Special collections
• Book = Art

UNIT 4 PRINT KNOWLEDGE

Self Directed Learning

• Final A
• Writing as result of process of analyzing information
• Blend of all ( folk, written, print)
• Annotated biblio
• Method of connecting knowledge without internet.
• Surprisingly efficient
• Setbacks:
• Book availability
• Starting search

Other’s Blogging

• Ted
• Censorship
• Necessary or not
• Who decides
• Control of knowledge
• Diane (RK2)
• Acid paper and preservation
• Economy of printing
• Improved preservation of knowledge

Collaborative Learning

Projects/Activities

• Final paper
• Traditional, but still challenging
• Brought home the reality of the web of knowledge in our current system of education. Students find sources, distil them into a paper that becomes more writing on the subject out there, etc….