Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Vocab
Vocabulary is pretty important when it comes to learning about anatomy and physiology as many of the physical education and health majors will tell you. I can't even remember the countless amounts of notecards I used over the past 3 years to try to memorize different terms. The problem with that is that I don't really think I retained much of that information. For our unit and for my future classes I will teach, I hope that students can understand concepts rather then memorize vocab. Understanding what is happening means that you know the what and why. I mean really who cares what the definition of a motor unit is. But, when we learn and understand the concepts behind motor units we then begin to realize the true importance of much of the vocab we are given to learn. Besides these points, I'm not really sure what other aspects of vocabulary I'm supposed to talk about here.
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I totally agree with your post and I have made my fair share of notcards to get myself through many of the definitions learned in the more difficult health and PE classes like physiology of exercise and kinesiology. I memorized the definition with the help of the notecard but didn't absorb any of the information, I just remembered enough to get myself through the exam then forgot everything I just studied.
This is why I Always hated my H.S science class. We had Those Huge Vocabulary to memorize and weird name for the parts. I could say that the index card was my note book for the science class..
I agree with you. Making notecards and memorizing vocab words and passing the test, ultimately doesn't matter if you cannot retain any of that information. It's better to be able to know and understand words and concepts rather than just giving a definition.
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