Knowledge, Theories and Media
Individuals develop and construct knowledge in different ways. Some people learn through seeing, speaking or hearing. Many individuals often develop and construct knowledge from experiences, too. Scaffolding can have a large affect on learning development. Students can learn to teach each other how to perform certain tasks or solve problems, therefore enhancing their knowledge on the subject. Also, as students are challenged with more difficult tasks, they are able to gain more knowledge with the guidance and hopefully be able to do it alone. As time goes on, students may have difficulty completing assignments. This is when it becomes important for teachers to get involved and determine if their students need help. Some benefits of the models and theories we talked about in this unit is that these theories allow us to see where students are developmentally. With Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, we can see if students are ahead or behind of where they should be in regards to his model. With Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, we can see the potential of development with guidance. However, with Vygotsky’s theory we are unable to know what style children learn best from or their learning ability. With Piaget’s stages model, he did not study a large, diverse group of individuals, which makes this model less reliable.
The role of media can have a great impact on people, especially women. Women are often negatively portrayed in media. They are made to be sexual objects that must be skinny, fit, have large breasts, bottoms and so on. I found a great video that shows the affect of media on girls. It explains how media creates poor body image and self-esteem. When the average girl is spending thirty hours a week watching TV where they see the “ideal women”, it is no surprise that nearly 80% of girls are dissatisfied with their body image. The media needs to change their portrayal of women to ultimately help the way women see beauty and themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0pwXRQxSYE
on October 11th, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Erin,
Let me start off by saying, great post! I thought it was brilliant to bring about the idea of scaffolding in taking part of determining a persons’ developmental characteristics and reacting from there. This was something I haven’t really thought much about. On another note, I couldn’t agree more on the fact of media leaving a great impact on woman regarding their body. I can definitely relate to this, even recently this is something I know I struggle with. I don’t watch TV much, but the times that I do I ALWAYS am seeing the female actors in the shows/movies and wondering if that is actually how I am ‘supposed to’ or ‘expected to’ look, or even act. Telling yourself that they are just actresses isn’t enough most of the time. It really is sickening. Love the video you shared also!