Understanding new or difficult concepts can be frustrating. Everyone has experienced this at one point or another. Some of these may be times when you were young and just learning to ride a bicycle or learning new words. As you grow older, the ideas that you to attempt to understand become much more complex and abstract. These skills or ideas can take a lot of practice or time spent before you fully understand it. However, there are times when you are struggling to learn a new concept, idea, or skill, where you suddenly figure it out and it makes sense to you; a “light-bulb” moment.
Throughout my life I have attempted to understand many concepts. Some of them I understood right away, while others took me much longer to comprehend. Several times though, I have experienced a light-bulb moment and suddenly understood what I did not understand only moments ago. The sudden sense of accomplishment from such moments is wonderful because not only have you learned a new skill, but you also learned it in a short period of time. The time between learning a skill and experiencing the light-bulb moment where you finally understand it may take a long time, or it may be very brief.
When I began high school I was taking a computer science class. The class presented many difficult concepts, some of which I grasped immediately. Others, such as the concept of object-oriented programming design, took me awhile longer to understand. When the concept was first explained to me during my first semester of computer science, I did not understand it at all. I thought to myself, “I have no idea how to use this, I don’t even know why it useful, oh well, I’ll just ignore it for now.” However, as I continued throughout the class, learning new classes and me...
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...do this very well at all. However, as I continued working on my math assignment, I experienced a light-bulb moment. I knew what to do next, and how to do it. This was fantastic; I had gone from not knowing how to do something, to knowing exactly how to do it in only a moment.
Everybody experiences a light-bulb moment at some time or another. Learning a new skill or concept that you don’t understand can be frustrating, nobody likes to do stuff that they don’t know how to do. Yet, if they keep trying, it is possible to go from not knowing how to do something, to knowing how to do it in a very short period of time. While it seems strange that this can happen, and maybe it is, at least you always get to experience the feeling of learning something new. So if you don’t understand something, don’t give up, because hopefully you will soon experience a light-bulb moment.
Four years of my life drained away at this place called Troy High School. After this year I will be walking away from Troy, worn and torn from the hours of anticipation for grades to be posted, the next weekend to arrive, the answer to whether that special someone will say yes to the next dance, or the unbearable wait for that painstaking bell to ring. Troy is a place of education, a very good one at that, with its Blue Ribbon Award and national recognition, you’d think I would be walking away with knowledge that will serve me well for decades to come, but no. I could have learned the same things I learned at Troy anywhere, it is the insight I picked up that will take me far. “What insight?” you ask. Its priceless wisdom really, it’s a shame too many people overlook it or take it for granted. You see there are some basic classes every Troy student takes, that in the long run prove to be very useful beyond their educational platforms. Take the Troy Tech classes, they offer more than just facts about 1s and 0s and codes of programming. Looking deeper into what is learned in these classes one can pick up the Zen like teachings. Bases, the fact that a ‘10’ can be any number, depending on its base, touches upon the idea how in the real world people seem to be the utmost characters of greatness but the more you get to know them, and their base, they can turn to be someone better or more often then not, something worse than what you first anticipated. In the course of programming we learn that there are several ways to solving a problem, just some are shorter than others and some easier to find the bugs, it depends on the commands you use. Such as how in life when using the right commands, or truths, will get you far, while some just tak...
From infancy to adulthood, organisms are always learning. The conscious and the subconscious are taking in information and sorting it, discarding irrelevant information and storing the relevant. The most common mode of gaining knowledge is through repetitions and memorization. These methods are effective for knowing exact definitions but do not develop understanding. In O Americano Outra Vez, Richard Feynman describes his teaching experiences while at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research. There he discovers the flaw in the modern education system, students are memorizing material but are unable to apply it to a real life scenarios, demonstrating they are gaining knowledge but not understanding it. Similar to Feynman’s Brazilian class,
Learning a new subject, such as Physics, the mind has to learn all the formulas given in order to become better at doing the math that comes with the physics class. “ When you learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger.”, stating that the more a person challenges themselves, their brain will better become good at that one thing or more than
People learn new things every day. My grandmother would say “I just received a new wrinkle in my brain!” Maybe, this is not true, but it is true that we learn new things even as we grow older. There are many techniques to learning a new skill. “Howard Gardner 's theory of Multiple Intelligences utilizes aspects of cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, and sociology to explain the human intellect” (Zhou 77). Gardner introduced nine different intelligences. Gardner believed that humans possess each of the nine intelligences, even though some are stronger or weaker than others. He also believed that each person had their own individual intelligence profile. We took a multiple intelligence test to see our own strengths and weaknesses
...ing learned something entails that one has gone from a state of ignorance to a state of knowledge.
...n looking at the results, they found out that the learning curve was exponential. The researchers assumed that learning occurs while people study and encode material into the brain.
Learning is a cognitive process which involves generating linkages between concepts, ideas, skills elements, experiences and people. This process requires the learner to make meaning of something by creating and re-working patterns, connections and relationships. From various scientific studies, it has been proved that this cognitive process is largely premised upon mental capabilities and development of the brain (intime, 2001). For people to actualize their ideas and creativities of their minds, learning is inevitable. However, the ability to learn is dissimilar for all people- some learn faster than others. This infers the notion of learning patterns. In simple terms, learning patterns can be defined as forms through people learn.
What does it mean to learn a new skill and go from "novice" to "expert"?
Learning the proper terminology was competitive, fun and stimulating. It gave me something exciting to look forward to in class each week. In my opinion, making learning and growing fun is an excellent way to connect the student with the information. Now, when I’m focused on learning something new, my mind automatically remembers the term engram. I smile knowing there’s a “physical change occurring in my brain to form the basis of my memory” (Gluck et al., 2014, p. 56). There was another discovery that I made this weekend. Usually, I hear the fire siren in my neighborhood every Saturday at noon. This past Saturday, I didn’t notice it all, perhaps due to habituation. I’ve lived in my home for more than 15 years. It’s natural, at this point, that habituation would occur because it dev...
moment moves forward with me and it makes the next tasks seem less mundane. I find myself
things. A window of learning means that there is a certain period of time in
You start out with a blank canvas, nothing on it, but ready to absorb new information. You soak up the paint like a sponge, like a baby soaking in all the information it can. The paint on the brush is your knowledge, and you are waiting for that first piece of information that you can get. The first line would mark that you can walk, as the line grows you begin to talk. As your painting grows, so does your knowledge. Learning more and more everyday.
When I retired three years ago from the United States Air Force as a Production Superintendent with 25 years of service, I was an expert in my field. During technical school I put in the classroom and study time on book materials and lectures to learn as much as I could. During the hands on experience I watched and duplicated what the instructors were teaching and asked questions when I did not understand. When I actually started working on aircraft and moving through the ranks, that’s when the true learning started. I was learning by experience. As I gained more and more experience I became an expert. Learning by experience is a lifelong learning process of success and failures. One of the greatest learning tools that can be used with life experiences is reflective thinking. As I start to learn and as I progress through my second career, reflection will be an important tool that I will use in what I hope to become; an expert nurse.
Light bulb is one of the most influential inventions in the word. It makes us work more productive at night and helps us enjoy more activities at night. It significantly change people lives all over the world. The born of light bulb also helped us by making more inventions that related to light, such as phones, televisions, and computes. By using light bulb, we actually reduced the probability of having fire accidents because if we don’t have light bulb, we will use candles instead which can cause fire easily. There are a lot more benefits we get from light bulb, and all of these are credited to Thomas Alva Edison.
The beginning of my 1st week1 to my major course computer programming compositions classes even though I had some basic skill about python programming I can tell it was a big challenge for me