Mentors Meeting Agenda April 25, 2012

1. How did your meetings go this week? 2. Review Development concepts 3. Come up with interpretive questions 4. Learning Metaphors (Thursday): a. Acquisition: Information can be transmitted into or acquired by the mind (which is an empty vessel). b. Construction: Individuals construct and reconstruct their thinking in reaction to the environment. c. Internalization: Knowledge and mental structures become part of an individuals mind through social interaction. 5. Representation this week (Tuesday): Legos

Development Readings: 1. 2. 3. 4. The cultural nature of human development (Rogoff, 2003) Learning in and out of school in diverse environments (Banks et al., 2007) Educational psychology (Woolfolk, 2010) Childrens minds (Donaldson, 1979)

Development Concepts: developmental stages "developmentally appropriate" cultural development cultural meaning community practices ethnocentrism deficit models value judgments life-long learning life-wide learning life-deep learning

Development Questions: What different types of goals do the articles promote? Are the authors only focused on ways of thinking (expanding knowledge) or do they also care about developing certain kinds of people? One way of thinking of this week's readings is that they are in conversation(Rogoff - Banks et al. - Piaget). What similarities and differences did you find across the readings?

Development Blog Prompt: Where have your personal or life goals come from? Who or what has influenced you to have these goals? For example, why do you want to complete your college degree? How has this goal developed?