After reading these articles, some of the points really inspired me, I want to share my opinions here. I think one point in the article I do not agree with, maybe the word confused is more appropriate for my feeling to this point—- study means to change your mind about something. I have to admit that everyone’s perception is different, which may be influenced by each person’s growing environment. Maybe I have a narrow definition of learning, but during my college career, even though some courses are really difficult, I never think the difficulties are caused by changing my mind. So I feel confused about these points. Also, I think most of the knowledge to me is new knowledge so I cannot relate the cognitive process to my own experiences.
In addition, I want to share a learning story and how I overcome it. Last semester, I took an economics course that talks about the potential economic problem in modern society. There are lots of models and definitions that need to understand and remembered but I was still interested in that courses and motivated by that course since I found that the knowledge it taught can remind me of my own experiences and there are some interactions with my life just like constructivists theory. For example, it talks about the consequences of the aging problem. In China, this problem gets more and more serious in recent years. The government announced many policies to boost the birth rate. When reading this news out of class, I was wondering why the aging problem is so serious. After taking that courses, I feel the knowledge is interacting with my experiences and I felt motivated. Since I am interested in it, even though this course is so hard but I was still willing to spend time on it and do some out-of-class learning to help me better learn this course.
I have to mention what my fellow group member Dennis mentioned in his post, that he thinks the video author was slow to master cycling skills, probably because learning to ride a bike didn’t give the author enough of a sense of accomplishment. His point corroborates mine, as I took my economics class seriously last semester and read a lot of extracurricular books for the same reason: a sense of accomplishment.