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Essential Learning Questions

1. Solitary activity Individual vs social Of course, both of these learning methods are valuable. I do not think we can learn just by solitary activity, undertaken by an individual without another. On the one hand, solitary activity is important when the learners take in all the information and tries to sort out all the new information to see whether they want to keep and apply for their future usage. The fact is who is the learner? Some learners can think on their feet, the solitary activity undertaken by an individual without another can be in their mind and as short as 1 minute. On the other hand, learners take their own managerial decisions when and where they need to be a solitary activity, undertaken by an individual, and when learning should be social activity that needs to be involved heavily on interacting wit others. I believe that both learning styles can come simultaneously. By watching, doing, talking, and thinking from a group within a context is as constructive as retreating, sorting and organizing our learning from all the inputs.

2. Transmission vs It is all depends on the stage of your Learning. In the beginning stage of our learning, it is helpful primarily focus on the development of understanding of concepts and new knowledge. Yet, at the same time, the concepts and the knowledge are so new that it is also essential to focus on the transmission of facts and information in order to complete the learning circle.

3. Teacher: recall info vs apply If I have to pick one or the other, I will pick “apply.” Because if you learn something and you cannot apply for your own use, it is useless. Nevertheless, if I do not remember some of the formulas, there is no way I can apply all the great things that I invented today.

4. Develop learning vs learning develop When we do conversation, we are developing the different stages of our learning. The answer is that they go simultaneously.

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