Sunday, March 22, 2009

Kevin Liao Lesson

The objective the I took from the lesson is that a history of a nation can affect its future foundations. Austria has a history of being invaded and invade. It was occupied by many foreign forces, including the Romans, French and German. It also had empires of its own. Due to these facts, it has confusions about its identity. It does not know which culture it belongs to.
Austrians are afraid of foreigners right now since they feel as if they were too open to external forces in the past. They want to protect themselves from making the mistakes again. Another reason why Austrians might have xenophobia was their Nazi education during World War II. As we all know, the Nazis were racist. Therefore, the Austrians were educated with prejudiced ideas. Unfortunately, Austria did not reeducate its people and Nazi ideas still exist in Austrian minds. Hence, I believe that Austria's history did indeed influence present day Austria.


Students outcomes

Active Learner:
I have to pay attention to Kevin's lesson in order to participate in the activities. By paying close attention to the details and facts, I was being an active learners. Furthermore, I took notes of his presentation. That demonstrated my desire to learn.

Effective communicator:
Think-pair share. Doing this activity enable us to share our ideas in front of the entire class. In addition, Max, and. We improve as effective communicator during these processes.

Critical thinker and problem solver:
In order to come up with good reasons to support our prompt, I had to think a lot. I had to think of good examples to justify my statement.

No comments: