lunes, 29 de septiembre de 2014

How do we learn?

First of all, and before answer this question, I’d like to introduce myself: I’m fine artist but I have been working in virtual education for a long time; I’m in love with education and I believe it can help to build a better world. As you can read my English is regular, that’s because I’m from Colombia so my maternal language is Spanish.

About the question, I guess I don’t have the answer, so I can say the following text is more like a personal reflexing about my experience as teacher and student than a technical answer.

I thing I’m the kind of person who can learn easy about any topic, I was a good student in school and maybe with more discipline I could be the best but I’m so lazy… and because of it’s easy to learn for me, made me more lazy so I never needed to study, I didn’t know it, I only thought everybody worked like me; when I began to teach I discover that I use to explain so fast and my students couldn’t follow me, they didn’t understand the concepts I explained or the readings I let them, and again I thought…education these days has become worst, I didn’t see the problem was me, I didn’t know everybody learns in different ways and times change, my teaching strategies weren’t working, I felt so disappointed and felt that I wasn’t a good teacher so I wasn’t good for the thing I love the most in my life.

I feel more comfortable as virtual education teacher because I’m not good for talking and my voice is not so loud, in this discipline I began to learn about metacognition and autoregulation in the web 2.0 world, so I discovered the different ways people learn: visual, kinesthetic and auditory besides the tools we use to remember a concept as underline, resume, build mental or conceptual maps, etc.

Truly I found I never study enough to be a teacher, actually I never used any tool more than paying attention but now I really need to know how to share my knowledge and make my students not only comprehend, apply and learn but also understand why is important to learn.


Here I share the pedagogy wheel, the instrument I’m using to enroll my students in the comprehension of their own way of learning.