Topic #2
Most of your time is spent outside of class so that leaves you with many opportunities to learn outside of class. There are many things you could do to learn outside of the classroom you could join a club which relates to the subject(If you are taking a computer science class you could join the computer club), Learn more about it by looking it up on the internet, and go over what you learned in class. In a classroom the teacher might not be effective in teaching the subject or it simply requires more time than is available in the classroom to learn it so in order to learn you need to spend some time outside the classroom to effectively learn the subject. You must find the best way to learn yourself for some simply memorizing something might be enough but most of the time deeper learning must be used like by learning a math problem you simply try to do it by using trial and error you will learn more from that then looking up how to do it because you learned it yourself(This relates to Percy’s idea of taking the unbeaten path, the learner instead of using a path that was made for him like a youtube video explaining it solves it themselves). You could go to a club or a tutorer or simply another class mate and try to learn from them allowing a similar environment to the classroom to learn in. You can look at the notes you took in class to make sure you learned what was taught to you in class which if you don’t feel like you understood it completely you could go on the internet to teach yourself or go to someone who could teach it to you. This allows for a student to learn in a way that more suits them.
Percy idea that I don’t know how to fit in
- The fact that the subjects you are learning have been taught to millions of people might take the value away from learning it you could see it as just another basic to be learned but it should be viewed to you as just as important as learning something that was never known before because it is new to you and you need that knowledge.
- Being taught something is not as efficient as learning it yourself. You need to keep your sovereignty and not give it away to someone so they could teach it to you. You could still learn the topic but it is better to let your self struggle to learn it yourself in order to most effectively learn it. If you give it to someone else they will try to teach it to you on their terms which you have to try to meet in order to learn it.
- In Percy’s example of the dogfish the student learns more by interacting with it themselves without being given any instructions but simply an objective this allows for the student to learn most effectively by discovering it themselves
