Final Blog post

Folk learning is a type of knowledge taught through other people, to which collaboration and communication are essential principles. Although some people think that folk knowledge is in a separate category from oral, written, and print knowledge, folk learning is at the base of all types of knowledge because it can be incorporated into all forms.

Final: So long, Farewell

Knowledge institutions build upon each other. Each plays a different role in molding the human experience. You need them all to gain the ultimate human experience. Yet despite the necessity of every type of knowledge institution, the tradition with the most powerful effect on human emotion is oral knowledge.

Final: Essay Based on the Salon

Printed knowledge has been very important in history in relation to religion. The Reformation is a great example of how printed knowledge impacted many people. This being true, I argue that oral and written knowledge has had a bigger impact than that of printed words.  Oral knowledge has a power over people when delivered right. A Great speaker can move many people to action. Written knowledge solidifies what oral knowledge can’t. An idea can be preserved through writing.

Final Exam Post: All I've learned

Looking back at history we clearly see and trace how different formats for the transfer of knowledge, folk, oral, written, and printed, have each contributed to the basis of knowledge available to many today. Despite all of the knowledge that has reached the modern world, many other pieces of knowledge did not make it due to censorship in each time and unique to each medium used to preserve knowledge. Whether on purpose or not each form of knowledge has inherent cracks that can allow even the most valued knowledge to slip through, our problem is to find them and stop them before we lose more. 

Notes for the Final: Maddie

FOLK KNOWLEDGE:

Through my self-directed learning I seemed to focus on cultural folk knowledge, as opposed to things you would learn at home. I discovered that traditions are a huge part or folk knowledge.

What I learned from other’s blog posts was that not all folk knowledge is something that you would necessarily guess. Through Emily’s post on manners, we can start to see that not all knowledge is though a “learning institution” or part of the category of “classical learning” (literature, arithmetic, etc.)

During the project where we had to teach another person something that we know and when they taught us something, I taught a friend to play the harp and a friend taught me to do a French manicure at home. I learned that we don’t realize many of the things we have to teach others. It doesn’t seem like a skill to us.

These projects taught me to collaborate, which was an essential principal to learning folk knowledge.

Final Notes: Kimberly

Here are some of my ideas for the final. I am curious to see the themes that everyone else found!

Notes for Final: Erin

These are my notes for the final event/exam we are having tomorrow. I'm not sure if they are supposed to be in a table format like Emily's, but I just can't think that way. For these notes I first went through all of my posts, and tried to categorize them by focus area and then unit. My main focus for this class was to try and bring some relevance through self directed learning, so that's where most of my posts went. I then took a larger look at our blog in general. Here they are!