People tend to mean a wide variety of things when they refer to “The Learning Process.” Developmental psychologists, educational researchers, even sports coaches can have different definitions and conditions of the “learning process.” These varying definitions can enrich our understanding of learning in general and learning how to write in particular. This reflection will involve two parts, a discussion, and a writer’s journal. Part I – Reflect and Respond to the questions about “The Learning Process.” Part II – Reflect and Submit your writer’s journal reflection to “The Learning Process.” What does the term “learning process” mean to you? How does one learn according to your understanding? Where does your sense (or definition) of “the learning process” come from? Please give these questions some thought; share your reflections with your classmates, read what they have to say, and then respond to the posts of 1 or 2 of your peers. A typical post is 1 or 2 short paragraphs. The learning process, in my opinion, is a period of time you spend to obtain a speical area of knowledge or a special technique. During this period, you will get acess to a variety of learning materials, obtain the ideas or the guidelines from these materials, understand these ideas and guidelines and practice them in your daily life or some special circumstances. According my understanding, one learn from materials or other ones' sharing, understand them and practice what they have learned. Only through these steps could one person learn what he or she what to learn successfully.
However, I was also inspired by reviewing other people's opinions and the teacher's comments to this question. BellaDD used the example of how people learn to fix the pipes to show us the process of learning. To conclude, he give us four items, 1)Find a topic, 2)Get information about this topic, 3)See what others have to say/do about this topic and 4) Participate in it yourself. The using of examples and her short and clear conclusions were convincing. Some other people mentioned that learning process is a never ending process, from ancient to now and to the future for the human being, from birth to death for a person. This was also a good point to the characteristics of learning process. In Elzettte's comments, she said that learning came from repetition. She also quoted her mother's words "earn something not just to remember it, but to KNOW it. " It is true in my opinion because I learn the rap song from Ed shreen by over 100 times repetition. At first, I could not speak very fast no mention to sing the lyrics with the fast pace of the music. However, the situation is improved significantly after a long time of repetition and practising. In hamarek(staff)'s reply to Langers365, she said that "failure tends to make us feel uncomfortable, and as we age, we try to avoid situations that make us feel uncomfortable. Failing is a great practice, it makes us vulnerable and shows us what we need to learn. To embrace this step in the learning process can help any learner grow". This also made me to rethink the failure I have experienced and what I have learned from my failure before. My sense of learning process comes from my personal learning practise both during my study period and my working stage. I should mention that I have tried a variety of ways of learning for a couple of years. Before my colledge, I, as an ordinary student in China, got a traditional way of education, during which the teacher and the textbooks play dominate roles. Students seldom asked questions and had few opportunity to communicate with each other especially in the classroom. Right now, I am participating online courses and joining a online community to learn English writing. This is a totally different way of learning when compares with the Chinese school education. Furthermore, during my working time, sometimes I just try to learn some techniques or finish some tasks by informal learning progress as soon as possible which include some personal web searching or the guidence from my friends or workmates. And now, I can also say that some of my sense of learning process also come from my review from other people's opinions about this topic. At last, I hope this essay helps me to build a deeper understanding of learning process and throng this online course, a totally different learning environment from my former experience, I could improve my writing and critical thiking skills, both in English and my native language, step by step.
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