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Student: At home.

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Learning

Definition:

Traditionally, research and studies around learning focused primarily on early-years learning through childhood and adolescence. However, it is now recognised that learning is a continuous process that commences at birth and continues until death; it is the process through which we use our experience to deal with new situations and to develop relationships. Teaching, training and other structured learning opportunities are activities that one person does to another, while learning is something we can only do for ourselves.

Learning is acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves. Human learning may occur as part of education, personal development, schooling, or training. It may be goal-oriented and may be aided by motivation. Learning is a step-by-step process in which an individual experiences permanent, lasting changes in knowledge, behaviors, or ways of processing the world. Almost every action we take is the result of past learning yet, for some people, learning still remains an activity undertaken in, or associated with, an educational context.

Learning involves far more than thinking: it involves the whole personality - senses, feelings, intuition, beliefs, values and will. If we do not have the will to learn, we will not learn and if we have learned, we are actually changed in some way. If the learning makes no difference it can have very little significance beyond being random ideas that float through our consciousness. Learning needs to meet some personal need and recognizing and identifying such needs enables us to evaluate whether the learning has been worthwhile and successful.

When does learning occur?

Learning occurs when we are able to:

1-Gain a mental or physical grasp of the subject.

2-Make sense of a subject, event or feeling by interpreting it into our own words or actions.

3-Use our newly acquired ability or knowledge in conjunction with skills and understanding we already possess.

4-Do something with the new knowledge or skill and take ownership of it.

How We Learn:

There are two separate learning activities that occur in the learning cycle:

1-Perception (the way we take in information) .

2-Processing (how we deal with information).

Each quadrant represents different learning processes as follows:

1-Converging processes relate to bringing a number of perspectives to finding a single answer – usually right or wrong. You may use this way of thinking in a scientific context

2-Diverging processes are about generating a number of accounts of different experiences. Typically, these are more creative processes

3-Assimilating processes describe (roughly) the taking in of new knowledge.

4-Accommodating processes describe (again,roughly) the related of the new knowledge to our prior experiences and belief.

Types of learning:

1-Observational learning:

It is learning by watching someone else behave and noting the consequences of that behavior:

2-cognitive learning:

It is learning through active and constructive thought processes, such as practice or using our memory.

3- learning through classical conditioning:

It is learning to associate a particular thing in our environment with a prediction of what will happen next.

4- Learning through operant conditioning.

Here, we learn that a particular behavior is usually followed by a reward or punishment.