Some people may believe that general education courses are very important for every student to complete. I feel that a lot of general education courses are a repeat, a waste of time and money for many students. Generals that I have taken have mainly been a review of what I learned in high school or even middle school. If I already know what is being taught why would I want to take the time and money to sit through a repeat of material I already know that doesn't relate to my major?I would rather just start taking courses that relate to my major so I cant have a career and make money more quickly.
Although I do have mixed feelings on this topic because I did start college right after high school so many of the general courses were and are a review, but for someone that is starting college years after high school general courses may be completely new material for them so they could could be very significant to them. I also feel that having a review of general education can give students more knowledge and further help with their major and related courses so they could be beneficial in some aspect to a students college success.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
My view on general education
At my current job, there are a lot of people that have bachelor's degree in business. Yet they are in the same position as me, making the same amount or less. I think that is what really drove me to the health/dental field. It is a specialized training for a specific job, dental hygienist. I have also met a few people who have one or two college degree's but you would never know it. Of course a degree looks good on paper but if you cannot really apply what you learned your employer will eventually be able to notice. A college shouldn't just be giving out degree's to people that haven't really earned it. They may be book smart but lack common knowledge or street smarts.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
General Education:
I really feel that general ed classes are important. For me they are a refresher into some topics and subjects that I have not seen or thought about since high school. I am going to this school for dental hygiene but to be able to write well for work in the field such as resumes, letters to potential employers, I need English to help me be more professional in my writing. Math is also a gen. ed class and I have always loved math so I don't mind it at all. I can usually figure it out pretty quickly. Using math in everyday life can be tricky when forming a budget or trying to figure out if you can buy a new car. However, it is important to know. I understand being frustrated that you are basically re-learning some of this stuff. I go through math and it is kind of repeat most of the time. Although English for me is completely brand new. I have learned so much in these last two English classes than I ever learned in high school.
I really feel that general ed classes are important. For me they are a refresher into some topics and subjects that I have not seen or thought about since high school. I am going to this school for dental hygiene but to be able to write well for work in the field such as resumes, letters to potential employers, I need English to help me be more professional in my writing. Math is also a gen. ed class and I have always loved math so I don't mind it at all. I can usually figure it out pretty quickly. Using math in everyday life can be tricky when forming a budget or trying to figure out if you can buy a new car. However, it is important to know. I understand being frustrated that you are basically re-learning some of this stuff. I go through math and it is kind of repeat most of the time. Although English for me is completely brand new. I have learned so much in these last two English classes than I ever learned in high school.
Generals
Usually I'm a very opinionated person....I feel strongly one way or the other. This one I'm kind of torn though; I feel that some general education classes are very important, while some are not. Anatomy was a very important class for what I will be doing. They say that the mouth is the window to the body and you can tell someone's overall health by what you see in their mouth. Therefore it is very important for me to know how the body works, since I will be working on people's teeth. On the other hand, I think it is a waste of time to take two English classes. I feel it is important that I know how to speak English properly, but neither of the English classes are really even about that. One is about writing essays, and the other is about arguments. I think it would be more beneficial to take something like a Spanish class. It would be a great asset to have in any job to be bilingual. Then there's math.....UGH! I'm going to be scraping teeth, so I don't need to know algebra to do it. I haven't taken an algebra class and in the ten years since high school, I haven't had to use anything like it. Math would be very important in some careers, but not mine. If I had to pick one side or the other, I would say I am more against general education classes. We should spend more time focusing on what we will actually be doing in our careers.
free-writing
10/07/2010
a community of car
I AGREE WITH THE ARTICLE BUT WE ARE LIVING IN A SOCIETY THAT IS GROWING AND EVERYTHING HAPPENS SO FAST SO WE HAVE TO BE FAST. ARE SO MANY THINGS WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF DAILY AND DRIVING FROM ONE POINT TO ANOTHER IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME SAVES A LOT OF ENERGY AND TIME, AND MAKES US ORGANIZED AND EFFICIENT.
A CAR GIVES YOU THE INDEPENDENCY TO DO WHAT YOU WANT AND WHEN YOU WANT WITHOUT BEING STRESSED.
I DON'T AGREE THAT DRIVING LEAD TO OBESITY OR ANY ILLNESSES. WE ARE FREE TO EXERCISE EVERYWHERE AND WE CAN USE CARS TO DRIVE TO A LOT OF PLACES FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. IN MY OPINION DRIVING IT'S NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF PEOPLE BEING OBESE OR SICK.
I AGREE THAT THE INCREASED AUTO TRAFFIC IS A KEY SOURCE OF POLLUTION BUT EVERYTHING COMES WITH GOOD AND BAD.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
General Education
General education classes are great tools and learning enhancements for new-coming students, either fresh out of highschool, or who have not chosen a degree. On this note, this does not include everyone. Not everyone has figure out what their "passion" is and what they would like to do for the rest of their life. This idea can be kind of overwhelming.
General education gives students a chance to meet other people and develop their interpersonal skills with people other than those that are already in their chosen field of interest. It is nice for those that don't have a major/degree chosen to get a better understanding of the world as whole and what options are available to them. These classes can also give a person a better basis to start their schooling experience.
On the other hand, classes such as College Success and Fitness for Life, and Calligraphy are classes that aren't necessarily related to those degrees in the medical field unless it relates to Physical therapy. These classes are good for students and teaches them a variety of thing, but for it to be mandatory and be at the cost of a "starving" students and even be in the way of recieving their degree as a general credit is pretty ridiculous.
Overall, General education is a good concept. I believe that everyone should have common sense and continue education in various ways. However, I also think that if someone is going to be paying for the knowledge that they recieve and know what their specific study is, then general classes should not be a prerequesite.
General education gives students a chance to meet other people and develop their interpersonal skills with people other than those that are already in their chosen field of interest. It is nice for those that don't have a major/degree chosen to get a better understanding of the world as whole and what options are available to them. These classes can also give a person a better basis to start their schooling experience.
On the other hand, classes such as College Success and Fitness for Life, and Calligraphy are classes that aren't necessarily related to those degrees in the medical field unless it relates to Physical therapy. These classes are good for students and teaches them a variety of thing, but for it to be mandatory and be at the cost of a "starving" students and even be in the way of recieving their degree as a general credit is pretty ridiculous.
General education...... wow so my first thought was that i would love this topic because I have truly felt that some of the classes have been so pointless for the field I going into, so no offence Trevor, but really were does this writing fit into what I need to learn to be a Dental Hygienist? I used to like math, but now that I have to take it again and feel like I am so far behind everyone else I don 't like it at all. Trevor is a wonderful teacher and I like him, if another teacher taught the class I would feel the same way, I think having the teacher we have is the only thing that makes having to take this class bearable. I think its important to learn and learn how to learn and sound educated, but really why some of these classes are important I don't know. But really I am just set on doing whatever it takes to do what I need to do to make this and any other class hard or not the funnest class to take doable. I like to focus more on making everything I do a positive experience. So no I don't think this is a class I need to take to make it in the hygiene world but I will make it what I need it to be to make it great. I don't like to argue, I believe I have my opinion and everyone else has theirs and we are all entitled to what we believe and what we think. Not everyone is going to be happy all the time about everything they have to do, but we make each situation what we want it to be and that is what I think it is to live in a free world with free agency. So general education, i can see some of these gen eds helpful, well I learn something from each class anyway so i learn new things and I think that is important, but some really don't pertain to my field. Anatomy and some of those are , however english and math I personally could live without, but i have definetly learned new things and will continue to learn new things because I will have a positive attitude about what I need to do to succeed.
Tami Garcia
Tami Garcia
10/12/10- Marisa Marquez
10/12/10
Going over Chap.2 helped me define my claim by defining it as both inductive and deductive. It also helped define my ideology on confirming my beliefs and thoughts on my research topic. I realized being objective is important when listening and when writing in news articles. Being subjective to these articles always shows in their writing in some slight way.
Benefits of having both: Concession
Appeals: -Logic
Deductive
Inductive
Analogic
re: Disconnected by Lynda Smith (overall structure is inductive logic) supporting theories is deductive.
1. Technology is pushed by big companies.
2. Humans have the need to be social.
3. Leads to addiction
4. Companies give us more speed
5. Less time with people
6. Leads to isolation in virtual works.
7. Therefore technology takes into isolation and less connectedness
Ideologies: author's values and beliefs
Objectivity: to be unbiased and stay non-partial
Going over Chap.2 helped me define my claim by defining it as both inductive and deductive. It also helped define my ideology on confirming my beliefs and thoughts on my research topic. I realized being objective is important when listening and when writing in news articles. Being subjective to these articles always shows in their writing in some slight way.
Benefits of having both: Concession
Appeals: -Logic
Deductive
Inductive
Analogic
re: Disconnected by Lynda Smith (overall structure is inductive logic) supporting theories is deductive.
1. Technology is pushed by big companies.
2. Humans have the need to be social.
3. Leads to addiction
4. Companies give us more speed
5. Less time with people
6. Leads to isolation in virtual works.
7. Therefore technology takes into isolation and less connectedness
Ideologies: author's values and beliefs
Objectivity: to be unbiased and stay non-partial
Times Have Changed!
Times have changed like you wouldn't believe. I remember when I was young I would walk to school, which was about one mile away, I would play outside and be so far away from my house with out my mom knowing where I was, I would sleep outside on my tramp with my girlfriends, and etc.
Being a mom now I would never let my child do any of those things. Walking to school one mile from our house is only asking for trouble in many ways. Many child abduction cases have happened in areas close enough to my home to make me nervous for my little girl. For her to walk with a few of her friends to school in the morning I think would leave me going crazy wondering if she made it or not.
All a kid wants to do is play and explore new things and ideas. I let A.j., my daughter, go outside and play all the time don't get me wrong, but when I say its time to come in, she throws a fit, every time. The only place I would let her play with out an adult next to her side the entire time would be in our back yard, which just so you know is completely closed in with a brick fence and trees lining the perimeter and two dogs who bark at the drop of a leaf. However I can't go five minutes with out looking out the window or what not to make sure she is safe and still there. Now when I was young we would go on walks all around the neighborhood and go in the fields by our house. As long as we were back in time for dinner, we were free to roam. Ha yeah right, to bad the world is such a non trustworthy place to live now. My kids will not be going miles away from me with the idea of, " just as long as they're home for dinner".
Being a mom now I would never let my child do any of those things. Walking to school one mile from our house is only asking for trouble in many ways. Many child abduction cases have happened in areas close enough to my home to make me nervous for my little girl. For her to walk with a few of her friends to school in the morning I think would leave me going crazy wondering if she made it or not.
All a kid wants to do is play and explore new things and ideas. I let A.j., my daughter, go outside and play all the time don't get me wrong, but when I say its time to come in, she throws a fit, every time. The only place I would let her play with out an adult next to her side the entire time would be in our back yard, which just so you know is completely closed in with a brick fence and trees lining the perimeter and two dogs who bark at the drop of a leaf. However I can't go five minutes with out looking out the window or what not to make sure she is safe and still there. Now when I was young we would go on walks all around the neighborhood and go in the fields by our house. As long as we were back in time for dinner, we were free to roam. Ha yeah right, to bad the world is such a non trustworthy place to live now. My kids will not be going miles away from me with the idea of, " just as long as they're home for dinner".
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