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….
yes, in case anyone was wondering - that WAS posted at 2:36 am.
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