Chapter 7 Learning Log

What? Constructive processes in learning and memory. Correlation is a big part of learning. As students meet together to discuss the topics covered in class, they are able to learn together. This also helps, because we don’t all catch every point that is taught. By pulling all of our knowledge together, we are then able to learn all we need to know and more. There is construction in storage and retrieval, plus the knowledge of social process. When we organize our knowledge, we do it in many different ways. Promoting effective knowledge construction is a major part of this chapter. Accommodating students with special needs is a very important thing for every teacher to do. Sometimes this can be a hard part to do.

So What? This topic is important to me as a future teacher because I will then be able to better help my future students to learn correct explanations. Understanding what learning really is will helps me to better understand where my students are coming from. Some may say that two plus two equals five, because that is what they have been taught. But by helping them see what they might have misunderstood will help them not get mixed up.

Now What? I can help my future students’ discovery learning by teaching them in a new and fun way. To have students discovery learning is an exciting thing. I can best apply this by taking the a lesson and finding ways ahead of time different ways there are to learn that lesson. Then as I am teaching that lesson, apply some of the different ways I came up with and see how many students catch on better. But before I can really apply this, I will need to learn more about how to apply it and how it all works.