https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4 Abby, Kathleen, Emma, Marissa en-us 2017-09-12 15:00:33 UTC 2026-02-26 03:12:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 19martia https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818209 Gladwell states, "But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding" (264) Can his words be applicable to your education?]]> 2017-09-12 15:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818209 19engebretsone https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818586 The world today is filled with information that can be accessed at a moment's notice. While this can be helpful to many people, it is sometimes harmful to students. Teachers need to change their perspective of straight information being the most important way for students to learn. Often, students lose understanding of a topic and feel overwhelmed with information when there is too much of it. By moving away from that perspective of information being the most important thing, we can help students understand topics more effectively and improve our overall education. ]]> 2017-09-12 15:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818586 19engebretsone https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818640 This quote fits in with our education in more ways than one. In today's society, a lot of students feel as though they cannot fully understand an underlying concept when they are given too much information at the same time. Many teachers believe that a lot of information is better than a few pieces of good information. In the quote, he says that there is a cost of knowing too much. "Overloading the decision makers with information, he proves, makes picking up that signiture harder, not easier" (Gladwell 142). This relates to what he said in the main quote about knowing too much and mixing up the information and where it should go.]]> 2017-09-12 15:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818640 19engebretsone https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818799 Not only do students feel overwhelmed with information and where it should go, but how to find information at all. "Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way" (Gladwell, 52). This doesn't necessarily go with the too much information, but sometimes we have so much that we don't know which information fits with our thoughts. We don't fully understand what all of this information means and how to connect it to a concept of learning. ]]> 2017-09-12 15:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818799 19engebretsone https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818922 In today's world, it is so easy to access information and that can sometimes confuse us about our own decisions and ideas. In school, sometimes teachers give students extra information with the idea that more information will help them learn quicker. In reality, students often get more confused about the topic when they are overloaded with added information. Most students need a focused topic to learn effectively. In the ER, doctors must make snap decisions about which patients to treat first and which could wait. "'As they received more information,' Oskamp concluded, 'their certainty about their own decisions became entirely out of proportion to the actual correctness of those decisions'" (Gladwell, 139). This shows, in a real world situation, that, given too much information, people don't know what information they need and what will not be helpful. In the same way, students have a harder time discerning what information is important to understand a concept when they are given too much extra information. Colonel Van Riper from the Millennium Challenge says that "'you can never know everything'" (Gladwell, 144). Teachers need to realize that students do not benefit from an excess of unnecessary information when they need to learn an important concept. ]]> 2017-09-12 15:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186818922 19engebretsone https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186819076 Students lose the understanding of a topic when there is too much information given to them. Moving away from the idea that a lot of information is important and to the quality of the information and how it is being learned. ]]> 2017-09-12 15:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/19martia/m6yhpcn29iw4/wish/186819076