Question

1. What are the things you consider in identifying the similarities and differences
in the community?
2. What are the things that you like/dislike in your
community?
3. What type of community do you have?​

Answer 1

Answer:

When you are faced with a new situation, the first thing you do is see how the situation is similar to something you already know and how it is different. Identifying similarities and differences helps learners gain insight, draw inferences, make generalizations, and develop or refine schemas (Holyoak, 2005). In addition, when students are presented with appropriately arranged contrasts, they are likely to notice new features they hadn't noticed before and learn which of those features are relevant to a particular concept (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000). There are four strategies in the Identifying Similarities and Differences category: comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies. Teachers are most comfortable engaging their students in activities that require comparing and classifying. The power of this category to increase the probability of positively affecting student achievement lies in the use of all four, especially creating metaphors and analogies. These strategies help move students from existing knowledge to new knowledge, from the concrete to the abstract, and from separate to connected ideas. Students use what they already know as an anchor for new learning. As a result, many people consider these strategies to be the core of all learning (e.g., Bransford et al., 2000; Chen, 1999; Fuchs et al., 2006; Gentner, Loewenstein, & Thompson, 2003; Holyoak, 2005).

Why This Strategy?

Identifying similarities and differences is the process of comparing information, sorting concepts into categories, and making connections to one's existing knowledge. Simply put, identifying similarities and differences helps us make sense of the world. We ask, "Is this like that?" By answering this question, we enhance our existing mental representation or abstract schema for the information. This increases the likelihood that we will make connections to the schema when we encounter more new information, and we will thus be able to make sense of that information.

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Answer 2

1. The similarities and differences in a community can be identified by noticing the differences in sub units of any community such as the difference between families or the difference between old people ans youngsters. The behavioural pattern can be compared and then analysed to find out the similarities and differences.
2. Each and every community have its own distinct features. It might not be acceptable for an outsider but that is what that makes the community different from other and it might be the essence of formation of that particular community.
3. There are various communities and classifying them is not possible.Some examples are cultural,religious,occupaion related, place or community of people sharing common interest.

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