Week 6 Schema

What is learning? My idea of learning still didn't change much from last week I still think we need to connect our knowledge that we learn to our prior knowledge to help us remember more. I think that there are two ways to remember thing and thus learn things. First we need to experience them and second we need to build no our experiences.

What can instructors do to help learning? instructors can encourage or create experiences to help the learn and/or build on the experiences to help learners remember more.

Week 5

What is learning? I think that is learning is talking the knowledge that we have and adding to it. now this brings up a good point who did we get our first knowledge to connect our new knowledge too. what can first the chicken or the egg. well here is my thought on that. It depends on what you already know. if you grew up in a christian home then the chicken came first because you were taught that God created every thing first. if you don't then the egg came first because in order to have a chicken you need an egg. now i think our first bit of knowledge came from experiences that we have had. When i learned to ride a bike i had to prior knowledge but i tried and tried and learned from my experiences of falling. I learned how to ride a bike and now when i learn how to Snowboard i can take my experience of riding a bike and apply it to the balance i needed to stay up on my bike to staying up on my snowboard. I think we learn from experience and when we have to learn something new we attach it to a past experience and continue to shape our knowledge.

How can an instructor how students learn? ( i wish i could remember the exact question) I think that as a learner is learning the instructor needs to learn about past knowledge or experiences and create a lesson around this. It is hard to create a lesson around one experience when you have 30 students but you need to try to shape it around some thing all can relate too. this will help the most learners learn.

Week 3 PBS

What is Learning?

My definition did not change much this week. I feel that Learning is the gathering of knowledge through many different avenues. I think that the more ideal the environment is the more optimal the learning can be. We need to find things that we can "hook" information to so we have a reference to our new knowledge gained.

How can instructors influence learning?

As an instructor can guide our learning to our previous knowledge so we can hook to to something else the more optimal our learning will be.

What is learning-behaviorism

What is learning? learning is, according to behaviorism, is learning an action that becomes conditioned. If something happens you always have the same response. In stressful situations we always resort back to he response we know the best. An example, in basketball coaching freshman I can teach them over and over how to shot a layup but when the first game come and they shoot their first layups they always shoot they way they did before I taught them. By the end of the year they shot like I have taught but this is because of a few reasons, one they game becomes less stressful and 2 the stress reaction has been changes because of conditioned response, they make a basket and they run less. I can always tell who have been focussing and working outside of practice when the game becomes stressful again and who falls back to bad habits or who follows what they are taught.

How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher/trainer?

This is the same thing. If I as a coach reward them for good actions they are more likely to do what I asked. If I do this many times I can change what their Stress response is.