Module 1

After reading the first assigned chapters of the text, I really do like the way this book was written.  Throughout the years learning and teacher have evolved and is vastly different from the way that I learned years ago.  I like the statistics talking about technology in chapter 1, the percentage of homes that have technology in different age ranges.  Technology and who has access to it at school as well as at home is going to play a large roll in our teaching methods when we have our own classroom.  Depending on the type of school you want to teach in this could be an issue.

I do not know much of anything when it comes to educational psychology, so learning the very core foundation and concepts of it are helpful in order for me to fully grasp the concept and take away from this course.  As in nearly every area of teaching and learning, it is ever changing.

In chapter 1 the studies and research methods were informative, correlation studies, experimental studies, single-subject experimental designs, clinical interviews and case studies, ethnography, and quantitative and qualitative research (p. 16-18).

Chapter 2 hit on a lot of topics I have always found fascinating, the brain and nature versus nurture.  The brain is incredibly complex and there is so much that we still do not know about it and how it works and nature versus nurture is obviously been a debate for years and years. 

Overall between all three of the first chapters I have learned a lot and starting to have a better understanding of how psychology and education tie together and how there can be so many different aspects of a child and their development that may hinder their education.