Now that you know how the human brain works best & more importantly how YOU learn best, all of your future learning shouldn't be a problem! Discuss the following in this week's blog.
- What is your preferred way of learning?
- What can you do when your instructor doesn't teach the way that you prefer to learn?
- Give a specific example of a time that you learned something just for the "love" of learning it?
Blogs are due on Friday, November 14th by noon. Have a great week & weekend!
9 comments:
What is your preferred way of learning?
My preferred way of learning is to take action, because I am a doing learner, that means I always want an answer for questions like "How does this work" or "How did that work in the past". I learn and understand really good, when my instructors explain something step-by-step and everything for me has to logic, otherwise I just think "I can´t understand that, that is not logic, that makes no sense". I just like to do work, and if I have a problem I really want to figure out how to solve it.
What can you do when your instructor doesn't teach the way that you prefer to learn?
If my teacher doesn´t teach the way I prefer, I normally go over my notes and use other skills to understand the topics or to solve problems.
And if I can´t figure it out by myself I ask my classemates or friends to help me and to explain the topic to me.
I am always really organized, what helps me a lot, because so I always can go over my notes and find the right notes for every problem really easy.
Give a specific example of a time that you learned something just for the "love" of learning it?
I really learned skiing because of the "love" of learning, I can´t remember the first ski days in my life, because I was 3 years old when I started skiing, but my mum always told me that I wanted to go skiing all the time, and I didn´t since that because when I got older, I still went to ski classes, even if I could already ski, but I still always learned something new and got better. And so is it still, because now Im in the ski team and now I learn to race, and I just love to learn how to race, because I love skiing.
Elisabeth Mucke
* Give a specific example of a time that you learned something just for the "love" of learning it?
According to the test the two that I scored highest on were feeling and innovating. I guess these are accurate. I definitely like to think about things on a different level and ask "what if" questions. Some of the answers I chose on the test aren't necessarily the same for all my classes. I mostly thought of my psychology class because the teacher teaches it in a different style than Im used to, but he's very animated in his lectures and makes it interesting. But in general, in other subjects I have to do things and read the material to understand it better.
If the teacher doesn't teach how I learn well, I'll have to try to do my best anyways. If there's something I don't quite understand I would need to ask questions that can help me figure it out better. Another great idea is to study it outside of class the way I like to learn it. I can look up how to's on the subject online to benefit myself and ultimately have a greater success. Also, I could talk to the instructor one on one and tell him/her that I am not learning well with their style and ask if they could possibly devote at least 10 minutes to the way I learn best.
In my past I have learned something just because I wanted to, but I can think of something similar that is a better example. In my junior year in high school I took video production class. It was only a semester class so I was done with it in January. I really enjoyed it and had made a short snowboard movie for the class, but there was still 4 more months of the season and I had my own camera. So I talked to my teacher and asked if it was ok if I came in on my own time and worked on the movie to make it a full length feature. He said yes, so I kept on filming until there was no snow, and came into the video room 2-3 times a week during my open hour to work on it. In the end I had a pretty legit movie and learned a lot more about editing than my other classmates that only did one semester and waited til the next school year to do the full year.
Tony V.
I am a thinking learner... I think this is so because im so analytical and a type a learner... This means that i like to know alot about things and i am always questioning things to find out why what where how and when... In class to learn i ask many what questions and i think able able to think out problems till they are answered with out having much information
When i have a teacher that doesn't teach the way i learn i need to ask questions like what are you looking for, what can i do differently, and what does this pertain to? I also can study individually to find the answers i am looking for...
As for as example of when i learned something for the love of it... I learned how to use the wheel when i was in ceramics class long before we were to get to it... I did this because i could think about how to do it the right way and i was able to use what i know to reason about what i was supposed to do... It was a challenge to me but i think thats why i liked it...
My preferred way of learning is doing. I am a doer not a thinker. Something that I can do when my teacher doeesnt teach the way I think is to take it in to my own hands and review material the way I like to learn. There are many study and learning processes I have but honestly I dont know if they're doing or not. They all seemed pretty similure to me. One specific thing i learned to just learn it was learning how to play sports. I learned it because its fun and it keeps me active.
My preferred way of learning is to be codependent. Often over years past I have relied heavily on teachers, tutors, and other resources to succeed. While that is not always a bad thing, I have to learn to do things for myself or I'll never really have my own successes. I am also a analytical learner because I'm always the guy with loads of questions. I am not someone who can be in a class, listen, and get A after A. Without asking questions, I wouldn't have made it this far to college.
I can arrange conferences with my instructor if his teaching methods don't relate to my learning preferences. During this sessions I could perhaps ask for tutoring or others sorts of assistance. I can also go to other students, successes services at the school, to find better methods for me to succeed.
I remember over the summer how I went on a mission trip and learned to play frisbee. I didn't want to do it because I thought I would suck. But I ended up learning how to do it and learning to enjoy it because all it was was a simple, fun way to have a good time with others.
My most prevalent learning style is innovating and shortly after that is feeling, which shocked me because my first instinct was that I would be a doing learner but after having read back over the information it surprised me!
For me when one of my instructors does not teach my learning style it is not so bad because I scored pretty high in all the categories but at the same time there are class’s that I have to make it my own learning by bending the rules on the projects we have to do and being creative with the questions that I answer and in the ways that I answer them, in short I have to create my own class within a class by asking different questions and giving different answers to my teachers.
In high school there were many times that I decided I wanted to know more about something so I got online and researched it even though it was usually not anything particularly important. Whenever I want to know something like when I wanted to know something about a computer or how to burn DVDs I sat and researched for hours until I finally figured it out it took more than a month and a half to figure it out but I finally got it!
My preferred way of learning is to be always creative in what I do, that way I don't get bored. And there's always something different to look forward to.
If the instructor doesn't teach in the style that I like to learn. I try to find the meaning of why he is teaching that way, and I try to think why he is taking his plan of action to teach. Sometimes it's pretty hard to understand it, some of the times, I figure it out until the end of the semester. When I realize that I have learn from his teaching technique.
But the best thing is when you learn something just for the "love" of learning.
The first time I learned how to play squash, my dad taught me when I was really little. His dream was for me to play tennis, so he didn't pay much attention to my squash techniques. We only played squash when it was raining at the country club. You play squash indoors, not outdoors, that is why we only played indoors. I started getting good at tennis and got some trophies. But this is not what I wanted to do, this wasn't my sport at all.
I started going to the club by myself and payed for squash classes to get better. I was in love and I am in love with squash, just as the way people here are in love with snowboarding. Every morning back home, I wake up, and just think about hitting the courts, you learn something new every day and the feeling you get when you win a game is amazing.
*My preferred way of learning is doing. I believe this to be very true for amny reasons. I learn by doing things and seeing things. Doing things physically is the best way for me to understand the information. Another reason I think this is, is because when we had to connect the 3 stars, my first thought was "how is this possible". And the book said that doing learners ask "how" types of questions. Im definatly a very logical thinker which is also what the book said about doing learners.
* If my instructor dosen't teach to my prefered learning style, I could simply apply the skills and info outside of class. Being that I'm a doing learner, practicing and applying will help me retain the info much better. Also I need to resist from getting upset and fustrated when the teacher isn't catering to my learning needs. Getting upset makes things even worse and harder on myself.
* I learn math just because of the "love" of leaning it. Math just seems to click in my mind. I can understand numbers better then words. another reason I like math so much is that it's the same all over the world, it's a universal understanding and that to me is really amazing.
Give a specific example of a time that you learned something just for the "love" of learning it?
My prefered way of learning is to think. I think critically about everything in a problem/solution matter. If something is comfusing, i don't do it on paper, i think it over in my head. I have a mental map that can hold things for a lasting time. An example of this is when I do math. I can easily put in confusing equations in my head, represent a number for X or a variable, then solve the out come in a trial and error way.
For me, if a teacher decides to teach something in a different way, I just compensate for it and adapt to their teaching style. I don't like it and sometimes it takes a while to get use to it; but I try hard to ensure that'll i'll understand the class and pass it.
I learned how to read and play music on the guitar. I always loved the fact that people could create new things just by mixing chords and adding in tabs. When I picked up my first guitar I was thrilled to learn. At the begining it was very tough to move my fingers and the pick at the same time to create what I was trying to learn. As the years past I began to get better. I was able to play fast, and today, I can do solos that are so insanely fast you can't register what my fingers are doing. Even I can't! But i'm glad I learned it just for the "Love" of learning something new.
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