Here are some more brief notes I have been making on learning, in preparation for my exam.
What is learning?
Learning is acquiring new knowledge and understanding. Often
defined as, a relatively lasting change in behaviours resulting
from an experience.
Assumptions about learning
- Learning is actively constructed
- It must have an emotional
connection
- It emerges from and builds
on experiences
- Influenced by the context of
which is occurs
- It is socially mediated and
develops within a community
- Primarily develops through
social interactions between learners and teachers.
5 learning dimensions
- Conscious or unconscious
- With different levels of
attention
- Via different sense
sequences
- By detail or by the whole
picture
- By fast track or by scenic
route
6
conditions for learning
- New experiences
- Learning foundations
- Rehearsal
- Processing new
information
- Moving to another level of
understanding
- Demonstrating learning
To
optimise learning you must:
- Want to learn
- See the need to
learn (emotional attachment)
- Repetition
- Feedback for learners
- The learner must be motivated
Information
processing
- Encoding - processing information through our
senses
- Storage - keeping information
that we can then use again if necessary
- Retrieval - getting information
from our memory system so that we can use it
Sian Sanders (2013)
