Angela Sauro's blog

Being motivated to learn helps to stay focused on the content.  At least it helps for me.  Now that I'm older I have to have some type of motivation for learning because I have less time to worry about things that are not going to directly affect me.  I know that sounds bad, but I just stay more focused on the topic i'm trying to learn if It will help me out in some way or I have a reason to learn it.  Having a vested interested in something can provide all the motivation some people need.  Others need to have some fancy motivational tactics involved.  The level and type of motivation for learnig will also depend on the age of the learner I think.  What works for an adult will not necessarly work for a child.  For an adult, it helps to tie the ins

It's always amazing to me the things a child learns and what they remember from time to time.  My daughter asked me this morning while I was brushing her hair why the word "love" has two vowels but you don't do anything with the "e".  I thought it was really interesting because it had nothing to do with what we were doing or talking about and when she asked me that question I was really blown away by it.  One of the reasons I was blown away by it is because it out of everything she could be thinking about, she was thinking about that word and vowels and putting things together in her mind.  What is even more interesting is that she constanstly recalls certain things she learned over the year during Kindergarten and it's no

I'm going to base this weeks "Learning Blog" as an extension from last weeks based on the comment I recieved from Rhonda.  I absolutely agree that learning today is much faster because of the world we live in today.  A long time things were simpler so the classrooms and instruction was simple as well.  Today the type of learning that takes places is far beyond anything i'm sure you would have thought 30 years ago.  And with technology growing so fast it only makes sense that content and the way it's preseneted would change as well.  Since kids at a young age use computers and video games or any other type of technology that has to be incorporated into instruction.  If you were to take a student from 30-40 years ago and ask them to do an assignment

Learning has changed so much over the years that it's interesting to look back to see how it was done in the past.  My great-grandmother used to live in a house that was once one-room school house.  It's amazing to me that there were several children of all ages learning in one room all in different subjects and levels.  I grew up around some Amish people and they kept the one-room school house tradition going and their school was very simple and used for learning.  Go into most classrooms today and it seems very hectic.  Even if there are no kids in there the rooms are so busy that I wonder if kids are able to concentrate.  For some students, the surroundings could either hinder or enhance learning.

More to come!

I learn better, as I'm sure most people do, by doing something hands on and performing the task at hand.  However, memorization plays a big role even though we are always taught not to memorized things but to learn them.  There are times when it's just better to memorize certain things to be able to perform them hands-on.  It might be hard to explain but for example, learning how to change a tire is easier practice doing it then listen to someone lecture about it or reading it in a manual.  However, some people might not know what a tire, lugnuts, tire iron, or jack is.  It is probably better for the person memorize the materials needed to change a tire and then learn how to perform the procedures.  I hope