Week 7 Objectives - The Narration

Week 7 Objectives - The Narration

My persuasive argument thesis is: Students' various emotions affect the lesson and teachers should lead the positive feeling for effective learning.

1. What do people already know about my topic?

Everyone knows that human has emotion and their effects are powerful. And also they may know they can't concentrate on studying while they don't feel good. However quite few people know about the effect of emotions on learning accurately, which is the reason why many teachers have never tried to use emotions of students in their class. This writing is for teachers, but students can also read this and consider about what should they do for the effective learning. 

2. What research has already been done about my topic?

http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/34097347.pdf- This research studied 'understanding and emotion in mathematics learning'. It shows the background information about the cognitive performance and learning related to motivation, psychosocial and emotional factors. But, It focuses too much on motivational factors and neuroscience.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/student-emotions/ -  Good definition and assessment of emotion. It categorized the emotions that affect on learning well. There are the implications for educator, also.

3. What are the implications of my argument (What if I'm right? What if I'm right and people ignore me?)

 For the students, this can be a guidebook for effective learning. They can save time, otherwise they spent time in studying ineffectively, not focusing on their study with their brain full of useless idea. If teachers ignore me, as they can't regulate the atmosphere of the class(included emotion, so motivation, attention and etc) they will lose the leadership in the class. However, if they read my essay and become well-acquainted with the implications for them, instead of being reactive, they will be proactive.

My Narration

  
 Among your body parts which one do you think is a king of the whole parts? To me, it is a brain because brain do so many things for our body; it controls our muscles(legs and hands) and all of our marvel thoughts come from our brain. Among the functions of the brain, I guess, the emotion is the most marvelous ability; maybe it is not ability because emotion has a great role in our lives and control us as if they were king. Given this, it is only fair to do such claim. Christian Gerlach who works in Learning Lab Denmark said; when the 'cognitive revolution' began three decades ago, emotions were not given much attention, however in the last ten to fifteen years this picture has clearly changed and we now witness and increasing number of studies examining the role of emotions on nearly all aspects of everyday cognition, especially I want to tell about the role of emotion in education. In fact, Robert Sylwester said that  new developments in cognitive science are unraveling the mysteries of emotions; the findings have much to teach us about how students do—or do not—learn.

   Before we think about how emotion is related to education, let's think about the history of learning and psychology which help us to understand it. Learning has changed from the perspective of psychology. (#Brian Butterworth) Think about B. F. Skinner's behaviorism, in the beginning of the last century behaviorism came to the fore of scientific investigations. The first behaviorists considered the brain an uninteresting black box, from which the only interesting output was the behavior; where, in the final analysis, subjective experience can be described simply as patterns of provided proper reward and punishment is administered.(Skineer, 1938; Thorndike, 1911). From this viewpoint, there has been a lot of educational reinforcement; incentives to make students study hard. However, to a large extent behaviorists are misguided to think that conditioning can describe all learning processes in the human brain.  In fact,  much learning started to depend on internal motivation and emotion rather than external reward. It's time to change such old-fashioned educational approach.