Week Four: Blog Question

Does "Practice make perfect?"
How will the current view of intellegence impact you teaching and learning?

I'd like to think practice makes perfect but sometimes people's perfection doesn't get them as far as they'd like to go. There will always be obstacles to hold you back. Practice does however make permanent. I learned through a mini lesson i presented, information and memory, known as engrams, will decay and be thrown out by the brain if it is rarely used.
However in order to create perfection, learners need to repeat this skill overtime. The skill memory is then recalled and additional practice follows until it becomes almost second nature.
This current view of intellegence will greatly impact my teaching as wel las my learning. I remember back in high school how much I despised math and science. What i would do is study the material, memorize it for a day, take a test, ace it, and then kick out that information because I never used it again. Somehow, I want to take History or English and connect it to the student's life somehow. I want to form this giant puzzle that overlaps and combines with other subjects so the kids really know and understand the information rather than just memorize. My teacher was helping me one day as I was struggling with tests and I said ok ill go home and memorize it and he said No! I want you to know it. There's a difference. That teacher really taught me so much because I didn't just memorize it, I knew it and his activites have stucked with me to this day.