Monday, October 29, 2007

update

So my research is progressing quite nicely though I am still a bit worried that I am missing the whole point of this assignment. I have read over parts of the book I picked up at the library during my research session with the library. The main problem is that it focuses a lot of parents and what they can do to help their child. So it has a lot of the information I need though it is written for a different audience. I have been able to pick out a lot of the information I need.
I haven't been using as many online resources as I should. I really need to start to parse all this information and get stuff into a workable format. However, I will probably wait to do that until later. I just need to research even more.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

In Class Exercise

1- lead in statement
2- Why this topic is "a problem or issue, that is, a conflict or something unsettled, perplexing, vexing, distressful, and in the need of investigation"
3- justifications for further inquisition (if you have the answers to (#2), answer “so what?”).
Pull out questions from conflict of interests between 2 and 3

1- Listening becomes a problem in the classroom.
2- Hearing Questions: What causes hearing problems in children and how can these problems be diagnosed and treated? Should we allow children to have an opinion in their treatment? How can doctors conduct hearing tests on newborns? How do doctors identify the source of a hearing problem in an ear?
Education Questions: What can people do to facilitate learning with heard of hearing children? Is it the educator's responsibility or the student's? Should deaf people be integrated into society or kept separate? What are the best classroom uses for mixed audience of hearing and hard of hearing kids?
3- Well, there are many different causes. I'm focusing more on genetic and diseases occurring early in life because that is when education is most important. I don't think I'll get into the more opinionated questions- if the child gets a say or deaf society. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right. Doctors identify hearing problems with hearing tests though it is harder to catch earlier in life. There are special tests for newborns and babies. As for education, I want to focus on younger children, more specifically how people learn to talk and listen to others and what happens if they cannot hear well when they are learning.
Hmm, I think I mixed 2 and 3 a bit.
Pulled Questions: How do children learn how to speak and listen? How can children learn the best without hearing?