Learning How To Learn
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Online Learning |
Mr. Santiago is a good friend of mine. He will be my contributor for the Online Learning Category. Let’s look at his first blog.
Learning How to Learn
By: Romulo E. Santiago II
How does one student or an individual learn? This question could be easily answered by educators and educational psychologists without hassle. But let me tell you this, in order for one learner to learn effectively, he must know its basic yet essential definition. First, the learner must have a clear cut definition of learning. So what does this word mean? LEARNING, according to expert educational psychologists, is a mental process. Of course, learners think, right? When a person tries to find out or figure out something unfamiliar to him his mind works like that of an engine. Since the mind starts to work and process information, it will be exposed and in turn process different information categories. Learners learn knowledge and skills. They also learn virtues and ideals, and, of course, habits and attitudes. The idea that we only learn knowledge is a very erroneous concept because it makes a particular learner to become a freak- a person with a big brain but without the ability to understand others feelings and he can not use his psychomotor skills.
Going back, when one learns, he thinks. He processes knowledge and skills, habits and attitudes, virtues and ideals. As one processes these information categories, it will undergo stages, First, the information is acquired wherein one grasps or understands the concept being introduced, second the concept introduced and clearly understood must be preserved in the brain bank. In other words, it must be retained or refrigerated (so that it will remain fresh). To do this, one must be familiar with the “Laws of Learning” these laws will help in the preservation of the idea or concept or information acquired. Third, the preserved information should be utilized whenever needed, meaning, without application of what one acquired and retained, there is no learning. For emphasis, if one forgets what he acquired, learning does not take place.
Take note too, that learning must result into the progressive adaptation and modification of human behavior. At its simplest, if one learner or person knows good values and ideals but fails to reflect it in his day to day dealings with people, it clearly manifests that he only knows how to say something about it but he doesn’t clearly and exactly knows what it is really all about. Do you agree with me? Tomorrow, I will continue the next part of this work. See yah!
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