Jeanne ellis ormrod biography of martin luther

I have finished Ch.4 but let's recap all the 16 blogs that I have written from Chapter 1 to Chapter 3.  We will see but I think the main idea of this book is that students do not absorb information but take it and mold it in their own way.

At the beginning we learned about how some stereotypes are not true.  It is not true that males excel in math and science more than females.  Also people are not just "right brain" and others "left brain" learners.  Following this we learned about generalizations about learning that normally hold true.  One is that people learn in spurts and plateaus.  Learning is not a linear process.  Piaget also had generalizations about stages that children go through.  I agree with theorist that his stages are trends not concrete stages.

At the beginning children focus on what is visible and in the fourth stage abstract thinking occurs for adolescents and adults where they can understand concepts such as pi and inf