EDUC 3750U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Information Processing Theory, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Social Change
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What skills do kids need: as teachers we have two goals : to teach curriculum and to teach social skills. Social and emotional development are key because kids" violence levels are going up, etc. It needs to be a mandatory course from jk-grade 8: we need to do more in elementary school to promote it. There was before a trend towards "being friends with kids: but now that doesn"t seem to be working anymore. Theories and types f learning: we already explored. Information processing theory of learning: now we will explore.
