To explore the role of conversations in learning, it is naturally expedient to start with revisiting the reasons for learning. We learn with the expectation of the following three benefits: a. To know more (than others) b. To recall knowledge faster (than others) c. To learn faster and better (than others) The significant role of […]
Learning is a very complex and multifaceted process and for the sake of comparison we have picked up five dimensions of learning – the stated goal of learning, the nature of knowledge that is the target of learning, the stated role of reading in learning, the nature of learning expected at the homes of students […]
We learn through our sensory organs and their interactions with the brain. We learn when some change occurs in our brain in response to new ‘sensory inputs’. To draw an analogy, think of our brain as a ‘telephone exchange/network’ and each incoming call as a potential source of new inputs and each outgoing call as […]
We all know what learning is, in our own ways. Expectedly, the discussion on this question is more about exploring how appropriate is what we think learning to be. It will be easier to get to what learning is if we begin by discussing what learning is not, because we register differences with prior knowledge […]
