Service Learning Post

Premise
Service Learning
Community involvement
Advantages
Disadvantages
Involvement
Participation
Community Service
Arguement
I think the main arguement in this peice deals with the overall importance of service learning. THere are a lot of good points that back up the fact that not only is service learning a good thing for a variety of different things, whether in the class room, or in the community. It is also said that both sides are benefitting from the experiance. Not only those who may be direclty being helped or benefitted from the experiance, but also those who are participating in the activity and actually taking part in the service learning.

Evidence
"Almost all discussions of service learning practices emphasize the importnace of reflection...Clearly, having students share their thoughts and experiences with one another can be valuable..."
"By contrast, those oriented toward change embrace the importance of political activity."
"...Educators and legislators alike maintain taht service learning can improve the community and invigorate the classroom..."

Personally, service learning should be a big part of the class room. My biggest concern is to which age this type of activity should be used on students. I think that it is critical because depending on which age group of kids you may be working with, the project I think could be a major failure unfortunatly. I think that it should be focused on kids at a young age to allow them to be more comfortable with doing things like this later on in their lives, but also, it can be a major eye opener to them and may open them up to new things.