Jen- Abstract
This chapter mostly focused on student learning and how they learn. This is important because how students are "learning" may mean that in fact they aren't actually learning anything at all but their just retaining the information. Memory is what it comes down to, are students capable of memorizing it. This is why it is so hard for teachers to understand why they thought they taught something one day and the students didn't actually get it, because it wasn't being taught to the students, they were just retaining what was said. Bloom's Taxonomy has said that one can understand a students mindset by evaluating the multiple intelligence criteria.Most of us discussed how teachers are focused on what the student is thinking instead of spending their time trying to determine how they are thinking. As any of us pointed out this all goes back to Multiple Intelligences and the way a student thinks is crucial to their learning style and most students are unable do think about how they think because they are too preoccupied with trying to memorize the content. Many people also discussed Bloom's Taxonomy which is seems to be helpful especially when working in other content. Basically it all refers back to the students Multiple Intelligence and how that works in with their learning and how they learn, etc.
additional webpage-http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
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