Personal Theory of Learning

I think that learning is a HUGE process. It is not something that happens quickly. You may be able to learn how to tie your shoes quickly or to ride a two wheeler quickly if you think about each of those tasks in a broad way. But it you break it down, you have to learn a lot of prerequisite skills to those larger skills in order to be able to do them. You are learning how to ride a two wheeler from the time you are born. You have to learn to hold you head up, how to balance while sitting, then how to move your feet independently from one another, how to grasp items, and so many other little things that you don't think of until you really break down and analyze how to ride a two wheeler.

Learning comes slowly, yet all at once. It comes so slowly that we don't even see it really. Yet, you will definitely remember the first time your baby smiles at you or the first word they say and you will say "My baby learned to smile today". But your baby didn't learn to smile that day, they completed all of the learning they needed to do in order to smile that day. They had been learning to smile for a long time.

I think that rather than using just one psychologists theories of learning in our lives we need to use all of them and take pieces from each to really figure out how people learn. This class is really going to open up my eyes to ways of learning and what the process of learning is.