Sunday, January 24, 2016

Week 2 Assignment 2: Blog Post

Hi everyone, 
As I conducted my research during the last couple of days I found that by reading about education, psychology, and the social aspects that surround it, it helped me find a title or narrow my research.  My title will be The Psychology of Teaching, I think that my research will focus on the various aspects of teaching and how they impact children’s ability to learn.  The research is helping me narrow my interest, my initial subject was very broad as it encompassed everything that I think teachers should consider when teaching children.  I also learned that the amount of things that may impact a child’s ability to learn is infinite, and that every day will be different especially if they have some kind of social or psychological disorder.

I chose to do two different searches, one using google and the other using the Leatherby Library system as we were instructed.  In doing this research I found that google will have an exhausting amount of websites and sources many of which for me personally seem too broad and their reliability might be sketchy.  I found the Leatherby Library systems to give me conscious of mind when it came to its sources which was very important to me.  Although initially the Library website seemed a bit overwhelming after moving a bit through it I was able to learn how to better search for information.  It allowed me to look at various subjects and a breakdown of them within each area in the Gale Virtual Reference Library which was incredibly helpful, unlike google which just gave me a list of articles and websites.  In short I think I need to narrow my topic more.  
   Thanks for reading Norma

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