Category: learning

How do we learn?

The first edition was exemplary but it had been almost two decades. The second one reaffirms the faith.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a thorough update including newer schools of thoughts in contemporary sociology, lifelong learning and aging; I am more interested in social aspects. I also believe education truly empowers people of all abilities, at all stages.

So, how people learn is fundamental to a better tomorrow.
This is *freely* available online. This is essential reading on learning.

At its best, it will equip you when you have questions.
At its worst, it will give you the means to question effective learning.

Cover Image of How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures published by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Cover Image of How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures

 

How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures (2018)

A Consensus Study Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published by the The National Academies Press: Washington, DC

 

Reference:
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018). How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783

The birth of language

How do you learn language?
How do you learn a word?

The first International Day of Sign Languages was this Sunday, September 23rd. I was wondering how do we learn our first language.

In the learning sciences, some believe learning is contructivist, some believe it is situated – some believe learning is individualistic and some believe it is social in nature. In most cases, learning is so complex that many of these seem like attempts at simplification to merely address our own ignorance. Once in a while though, they are illuminating.

MIT researcher Deb Roy presented one of the most illuminating TED Talks.

Listen to how his child learns to speak a word…
literally see how events affect how the world communicates…
magic sometimes does not care about what we hypothesize.

© 2018 Sudip Ghosh.