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Title: Who am I? Exploring Your Identity Author: Kristine Anthis, PhD Date Published: May 31st, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses the challenge of identity achievement and why it's so hard. Includes Marcia's Identity Status Model. How This Influenced My Thinking: We all know it's hard to be in identity achievement, but this article explains why. Credibility of Source: Good.

Title: Guided Participation Author: Zeynep Isik-Ercan & Susan Golbeck - The Gale Group Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant & Summary: Not only explains what Guided Participation is, but also it's roots from both Vygotsky & Barbara Rogoff from her book "Apprenticeship in Thinking." How This Influenced My Thinking: It elaborated upon the information from the textbook, explained how social interaction plays a role in cognitive development, and the origins of the guided participation concept. Credibility of Source: Great - lots of references at the bottom of this article.

Title: Guided Participation Author: Zeynep Isik-Ercan and Susan Golbeck Date Published :2009 Why Relevant and summary: Its relevant because it talks about the guided participation in relation to Vygotsky's theories and concepts of zone of proximal development. The article talks about how guided participation helps the child to achieve their goals. How this influenced my thinking: Helps me to realize the method of teaching I can do for my children so they will teach others the same way. Credibility of Source: There is a bibliography at the end to cite their sources that are equivalent to the sources of theory used.

Title: Zone of Proximal Development Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: It helped me understand the background of ZPD, its ideology and its motives. How This Influenced my Thinking: I was able to apply it to my life after reading this very clear article. Credibility of Source:It is just a website, but it matches up with other information

author-Saul Mcleod date- 2012 why relevant/summary- This site is relevant in helping to better understand what is meant by Zone of proximal development, scaffolding, and cooperative teaching. It not only provides you with a definition of each term, but also gives you information on Vygotsky, and provides you with sample learning scenarios that help you to better understand his theory. how this influenced my thinking- This webpage gave me insight on what are good ways of teaching someone a new task. It helped me to better understand why a child would have trouble learning a new task, and what can be done to help them achieve their goal. credibility of source- credible with many sources

Title: ZPD Author:Saul McLeod Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gave good terminology of the terms needed while writting the essay. How this influenced my thinking: Gave good examples and was clear which made it easier for me to understand Credibiliy: Good for basic knowledge

Title: Lev Vygotsky Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2007 Why Relevant and Summary: Talks about Vygotsky and the theories that he created. It also has a good comparison between Vygotsky and Piaget. How This Influenced My Thinking: It was good additional material that went more in depth on the topic, and had some information that the textbook did not cover. Credibility of Source: Good - the author is a professor at Wigan and Leigh college.

Title:Lev Vygotsky Author:Saul McLeod Date Published:2007 Why Relevant and Summary:Detailed background information about Vygotsky and how his theory differs from Piaget's theory. The effects of Vygotsky's theory is presented and there is also a video that talks about the differences of both theories. How This Influenced My Thinking:I learned a lot more about Vygotsky and how his and Piaget's theory differ from one another. Credibility of Source:Credible.

Title: Lev Vygotsky Author: Saul McLeod Date Published: 2007 Why Relevant and Summary: This article was relevant to the writing assignment because it helped me understand that an important concept to the Zone of Proximal Development relates to the difference between what a child can achieve independently and what a child needs guidance with. How This Influenced My Thinking: This helped me know that children should have somewhat of independence and freedom to learn skills that'll benefit them in the future. This will teach the child to be responsible and to be independent. Credibility of Source: very credible

Title: Emerging Adults : The In-Between Age Author: Christopher Munsey Date Published: June 2006\ Why relevant and summary: This goes in depth about emerging adulthood and identity. it gives features of emerging adulthood and its ties with finding identity. it also references to cultures and their achievement of identity and how they can be different from others. Identity can come from what your community requires of you, or something else. How this influenced my thinking: this reinforced my ideas on emerging adulthood being a stage of unsure identity for some if not most. Credibility: American Psychological Association

Title:Fulfillment at Any Age: Finding the Pathway to Successful Aging Author: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph. D Date Published: November 17, 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: The University of Chicago has composed a chart/pathway that people in their middle and later adulthood can follow as they adapt to the challenges of aging. Some of those pathways that they included are as followed: Meandering way (a way to achieve unclear goals), and Straight and narrow path (life is characterized by predictability). How This Influenced My Thinking: I found this article to be ironic, simply because it his helps older adults to come over difficulties but the irony is that it is found online, which most older adults do not know how to use a computer. Credibility of Source: The article is very credible and written by a doctor.

Title: Successful Aging: A Lifestyle Choice Author: Kyle Roderick Date Published: July 11, 2008 Why relevant and Summary: This article talks about how successful aging appears to depend primarily on the ability to maintain three key behaviors or characteristics: low risk of disease and disease-related disability, high mental and physical function and active engagement with life. How this influenced my thinking: It helped me to understand what I can do to achieve successful aging Credibility of source: research was done my M.D.s

Title: The Sandwich Generation: Rising Financial Burdens for Middle-Aged Americans Authors: Kim Parker and Eileen Patten Date: January 30, 2013 Summary and Why Relevant: Rising Financial Burdens for Middle-Aged Americans Overview: With an aging population and a generation of young adults struggling to achieve financial independence, the burdens and responsibilities of middle-aged Americans are increasing. How This Influenced My Thinking: Lots of great statistics about how the sandwich generation is affected by economics Credibility of Source: Really credible - well written and sourced

Title: From Conception to Birth: A Life Unfolds Authors: Alexander Tsiaras and Barry Werth Date Published: Book - 2002, TED talk video - Nov. 14, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This amazing book offers beautiful photographic high magnetic resonance scans of a baby from conception through birth. This book begins with the anatomy of the egg and sperm, and the cell division that occurs just after conception. Starting with the first few hours, then moving into the first several days, and finally presenting images of the growing fetus week-by-week, this is an absolutely fascinating book. NOTE: I own a copy and am willing to bring to class if anyone is interested. How this influenced my thinking: Every time I look through this book, I am fascinated and truly moved by the miracle that is the creation and development of us! Credibility of Source: The author, Alexander Tsiaras, is responsible for remarkable achievements in medical imaging technology. Barry Werth is a renowned U.S. science writer. The YouTube video is Alexander Tsiaras presenting on his medical imaging technology as applied in the book. He shows a clip of video as well. Relevant portion starts at 1:40. YouTube url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70