The lecture on the definition of education that was held by Dr. Kingsford, Mrs. Dunning and Dr. Robertson was very interesting, and had me listening. Each Professor had a different definition and a different perspective on their theory of education and what it means to them. Dr. Kingsford explained that there is no professor at the University of Mobile that would define it the same way as any one of his collegues. The education that we receive at school is that what we receive from others, meaning the people and the events that surround us and influence us at the school. It is also what we teach ourselves because a big part of college is using your mind and asking questions that you never asked before. It keeps us thinking and trying to solve problems we have never encountered in our lives. Through this process we engage our mind and develop it to think more ratonally for itself and it becomes a stronger muscle just like when we work out in the gym and develop our physical muscles.
Mrs. Dunning continued the conversation and her opinion in being engaged in the learning process is to ask questions, especially in the stuff you don't understand. She stated rather then just using short-term memmory, she encouraged students to really understand what there reading and working on. Knowledge is power but it can be forgetful, so while engaged in the learning process, Mrs. Dunning tryed to reinforce to students to really try to focus and concentrate hard on what they are doing so it will stick in there minds and students won't forget it. Tuiton is really expensive and while at school students should make the most out of it. Being engaged also means doing more then the expected. That is visiting professors, looking for outside sources and becoming active.
To finish the lecture Dr. Robertson listed some of his opinions and he tryed to let students incorporate God in all their teachings. He said God is the source of all truth and ideally he is inside or related to everything we are learning. While attending school, we should understand this fact and bless God for giving us the chance to make the learn-process an available experince to us. The lecture by all three professors consisted of different points and views each student could look upon of. The conversation really grasped my attention and it gave me some nice ideas.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Mashburn 2
Dr. Mashburn's second lecture on education was very insightful. The fact that there are so many definitions of education really got me thinking. What is education really? I guess anything from a graduate of Harvard to an African tribal leader has experienced some sort of education. It seems weird to think of it that way, but in a sense that is the truth. It does not matter what you earn but the act of learning that is the true essence of learning. That is what i got from this lecture.
T.J. Brown
T.J. Brown
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Mashburn #2 Josh Stodghill
Topic: Panel discussion response paper.
Dr. Kingsford focuses primarily on what the K-12 education system is for and what the college years are meant for. He pointed out that for us we have been focusing primarily on facts that are intellectual, political, ect.; where as, now college will still teach this, but it will also cause us to learn to think on our own. He stressed the fact that college is just the next step in the life long learning process.
Dr. Dunning made the point that if a class is easy for us then we should dig deeper on our own. I love this point, and believe that students should do this in order to accomplish the knowledge they will need later as well as developing skills that will carry on for the rest of their life.
Dr. Roberts made my favorite point when he used 1 Corinthians 10:31 which says, "therefore whether you eat or you drink or what ever you do, do it all to the glory of God". He made the point that in our education process we are to learn as much as we can and to accomplish as much as we can so that what we do will be to the glory of God. So many times people will do there classes for the grade or for their parents, and miss the point that they are to do their best for the Lord.
Dr. Kingsford focuses primarily on what the K-12 education system is for and what the college years are meant for. He pointed out that for us we have been focusing primarily on facts that are intellectual, political, ect.; where as, now college will still teach this, but it will also cause us to learn to think on our own. He stressed the fact that college is just the next step in the life long learning process.
Dr. Dunning made the point that if a class is easy for us then we should dig deeper on our own. I love this point, and believe that students should do this in order to accomplish the knowledge they will need later as well as developing skills that will carry on for the rest of their life.
Dr. Roberts made my favorite point when he used 1 Corinthians 10:31 which says, "therefore whether you eat or you drink or what ever you do, do it all to the glory of God". He made the point that in our education process we are to learn as much as we can and to accomplish as much as we can so that what we do will be to the glory of God. So many times people will do there classes for the grade or for their parents, and miss the point that they are to do their best for the Lord.
Barbara Bowar, Mashburn #2
I learned that there are many definitions of education, not just one. We heard three different ones from the three speakers. Dr. Kingsford talked about how education is a process and we are always learning. College is a formal structure of education. Dr. Dunning talked to us about not just learning for the test, but beyond that, as questions, and to go see your professors to help get a good education. Dr. Robertson talked about how we were created to glorify God, so we should become educated about Him and glorify Him. I think that what they told us was very helpful and useful to getting a good education.
Topic # 4 Dr. Mashburn
The topic of Dr. Mashburn's lecture was education.
Dr. Kingsford's definition of education was, to help students change or do new things, ultimately a process we participate, the end product is learning, and it is not confined to a school building. K-12, he said, was the beginning process of formal education and college is the next step. During our k-12 years, he stated, we learn intellectually, politically, economically, and socially. Our 4 year degree is more focused on what we learn from others and education we give ourselves.
Dr. Dunning described education as being engaged in a learning process. She covered three main points that she believed would help us with our education.
1. Work for the test or beyond
Dr. Kingsford's definition of education was, to help students change or do new things, ultimately a process we participate, the end product is learning, and it is not confined to a school building. K-12, he said, was the beginning process of formal education and college is the next step. During our k-12 years, he stated, we learn intellectually, politically, economically, and socially. Our 4 year degree is more focused on what we learn from others and education we give ourselves.
Dr. Dunning described education as being engaged in a learning process. She covered three main points that she believed would help us with our education.
1. Work for the test or beyond
2. Ask questions
3. Go to your professor's office: You will recieve help and lets your professor know you care
Finally, Dr. Robertson began by asking,"Why are you here?" He went on to answer his own question by reminding us that we are here to glorify God, first and foremost, and we are not here by accident. How does God relate to things we study? He gave us a mind to use to glorify Him, therefore we should use our minds to learn and become educated about Him.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Mo Habibzi (Dr.Mashburn #2)
What is Education?
I thought that Dr. Mashburn, Dr. Kingsford, Dr. Dunning, and finally Dr. Robinson’s speech was really helpful for us freshman because we heard four different ideas of what education is. This is how I pictured there ideas of what is education? What I learned was that education starts from the day you were born. You teach yourself how to walk when you’re little, then slowly you start to talk and etc. Then as you get older and start to attend school, you become more educated. But you process your brain and yourself to be educated everywhere school, home, streets, friends, family and so on. Also one other way to educated yourself is by asking your teachers/ professors question on the things you don’t understand what they are teaching or something they aren’t teaching. Throughout your whole life you educated yourself to become someone after University, but after finding a job you’re still processing yourself and becoming more educated to learn more about that job and the future.
I thought that Dr. Mashburn, Dr. Kingsford, Dr. Dunning, and finally Dr. Robinson’s speech was really helpful for us freshman because we heard four different ideas of what education is. This is how I pictured there ideas of what is education? What I learned was that education starts from the day you were born. You teach yourself how to walk when you’re little, then slowly you start to talk and etc. Then as you get older and start to attend school, you become more educated. But you process your brain and yourself to be educated everywhere school, home, streets, friends, family and so on. Also one other way to educated yourself is by asking your teachers/ professors question on the things you don’t understand what they are teaching or something they aren’t teaching. Throughout your whole life you educated yourself to become someone after University, but after finding a job you’re still processing yourself and becoming more educated to learn more about that job and the future.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Heather Hayes: Mashburn #2
What is education?
Dr. Kingsford:
The dictionary definition is to challenge, motivate, and inspire. To educate means to help students change or learn how to do new things. This definition does not adequately define education or even answer the question (what is education). Each professor has their own definition of what education is. Education is ultimately a process with the en product being learning. One can experience education everywhere. College is just the next step to learning what education is. The experience of the school years prior to college are the foundations of education. The foundation is made of four basic principles: economic, political, intellectual, and social. Education really begins after college experience. There are two types of education. One type of education we give ourselves and the other type we receive from others.
Dr. Dunning:
-If I Had Known Then What I Know Now-
To become successfully educated one must become engaged in learning. How does one engage themselves in learning? Three ways to engage in learning are to work for the test and beyond, ask questions, and meet with your professor. Meeting with your professor will get you further help than class and it lets your professor know you are interested and care about the class.
Dr. Dunning shared with us that we will never have as much free time as we have now.
Dr. Robinson:
-Why am I here?
The purpose of a Christian University is to integrate faith with learning.
You must always remember to glorify God with all your mind.
Matthew 22: 37
He said to him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
Dr. Kingsford:
The dictionary definition is to challenge, motivate, and inspire. To educate means to help students change or learn how to do new things. This definition does not adequately define education or even answer the question (what is education). Each professor has their own definition of what education is. Education is ultimately a process with the en product being learning. One can experience education everywhere. College is just the next step to learning what education is. The experience of the school years prior to college are the foundations of education. The foundation is made of four basic principles: economic, political, intellectual, and social. Education really begins after college experience. There are two types of education. One type of education we give ourselves and the other type we receive from others.
Dr. Dunning:
-If I Had Known Then What I Know Now-
To become successfully educated one must become engaged in learning. How does one engage themselves in learning? Three ways to engage in learning are to work for the test and beyond, ask questions, and meet with your professor. Meeting with your professor will get you further help than class and it lets your professor know you are interested and care about the class.
Dr. Dunning shared with us that we will never have as much free time as we have now.
Dr. Robinson:
-Why am I here?
The purpose of a Christian University is to integrate faith with learning.
You must always remember to glorify God with all your mind.
Matthew 22: 37
He said to him, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Topic #4 Dr. Mashburn
Andrew Schmitt
I would have to say that today's lecture/question and answer session with Dr. Kingsford, Dr. Dunning, and Dr. Robertson was awesome and informative. Today we discussed what education really is. It was interesting to note that Dr. Kingsford, the Dean of Education, could not really settle on an official definition for education. Basically, he said twenty different people would have twenty different opinions as to the definition of education; however, he did say that education is a never-ending process.
Dr. Dunning stressed the point of not just studying to learn for an exam, but study to retain. We concluded that this is a difficult practice to perform, yet could be done by extensive research and critical thinking.
Dr. Robertson definitely drove the nail in the coffin when he talked about how we should have a desire to learn because we cant truly follow the Greatest Commandment in Mark 12:28-31 unless we want to increase our intelligence. We should love God enough to do this.
As we study for and take our exams in college and basically whatever we do in life, we should heed Paul's writing to the church at Colossae when he said, "And whatever you do whether in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. " (Colossians 3:17)
I would have to say that today's lecture/question and answer session with Dr. Kingsford, Dr. Dunning, and Dr. Robertson was awesome and informative. Today we discussed what education really is. It was interesting to note that Dr. Kingsford, the Dean of Education, could not really settle on an official definition for education. Basically, he said twenty different people would have twenty different opinions as to the definition of education; however, he did say that education is a never-ending process.
Dr. Dunning stressed the point of not just studying to learn for an exam, but study to retain. We concluded that this is a difficult practice to perform, yet could be done by extensive research and critical thinking.
Dr. Robertson definitely drove the nail in the coffin when he talked about how we should have a desire to learn because we cant truly follow the Greatest Commandment in Mark 12:28-31 unless we want to increase our intelligence. We should love God enough to do this.
As we study for and take our exams in college and basically whatever we do in life, we should heed Paul's writing to the church at Colossae when he said, "And whatever you do whether in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. " (Colossians 3:17)
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Neal Ledbetter
I found Neal's speech to be very entertaining and interesting. I thought he did a real good job catching the crowd's attention and getting his points across. Neal's lecture was to help students understand, that even though students are away from home and parental influence it means no reason to stop the relationship they held with God. Instead he insisted we continue to bond with God and learn more about him, because that is one reason why someone would attend a Christian school. Some reasons why students become detached away from God in college are bad influence, more freedom (independance) or a change of heart. Why? Many students were dependant on there parents and others but now that they are alone, they gain more freedom and become responsible for there own choices. Neal argued that should not be true though fun is necessary at College, each of us has certain resposibilities and we should not forget those even while experiencing new changes. Instead of becoming separted further from God, students should be open and look for ways to come closer to God. Students should challenge one another with new questions and use there minds to worship him. Instead of being focused on just what's around you, peers and friends should learn about the entire world and understanding whats going on across the entire globe. College should not only be an academic experience. It is much more then just getting a degree. It is a spiritual experince just as much as anything else and after leaving Univeristy students should feel good and smart about themselves. Not only have they attained more knowledge but they have learned to become better people who there peers have trust inside them, that they can survive in the world. Neal mentioned to do this we should each have a mentor to challenge us. To help us use our minds more and to think harder for ourselves.
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