Ting Song's blog

After 12 weeks study, learning has multiple meanings for me. It is not as simple as it was. I mean after learning so many relative theories about learning, I understand learning much better than before. Certainly, learning has different definitions according to different theories, but all the theories told me that learning could be facilitated when we select appropriate ways in learning process.

Learning is gaining new knowledge bases on old knowledge. By learning we construct a system of knowledge and information, the system keep growing when we learn unceasingly.

Learning is a series of complex actions, which has different meanings for people of different age. During that process, we receive new information, analyze and relate it with our experiences.

Leaning is operating. When I was in college, my scores of English class were very high. I can read difficult articles and my classmates often asked me questions about grammar because I always performed well in English exam. After I arrived in Logan, where every speaks English, I found it was difficult to communicate with people in English, I had to think over and over to select appropriate words, and sometimes people speak so fast that I could not catch them. I was very depressed. But my friends and classmates encouraged me to speak out and not to be afraid of making mistakes. Two month later, after practiced day by day, my English have been improved greatly.

Learning is not memorizing some theories or formulas but operating knowledge you didn’t know before. Learning could be easy when you find right method and you are under correct instructions, learning could become more difficult when you are lack of motivation or you meet a bad teacher.