Online Leaders Club Session 12

Today’s Topic: Learning

Host: CV
unnatichandresh: Last night I had a conversation with Leader Raju regarding today’s session as he was going to host this session but due to his busy schedule he is not available today. The discussion went around today’s topic and together we have created today’s session flow.What is Learning?Benefits of Learning?How do we Learning?
unnatichandresh: How do we learn (sorry for err)unnatichandresh: I remember one of the powerful thought shared by Elvin Toffler American Author of Science-fiction, b.1928 that the illiterates of the future are not those who cannot read and write but are those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn…unnatichandresh: What is Learning? I invite all of you to type the first word that comes to your mind when I ask you to think about “What is Learning?”
unnatichandresh: Just type out the first word that comes to your mind immediately… unnatineeru: continuous process

unnatineeru: learning is life

leadersunali: I learned cluster thinking from epad session.

leaderudayan: learning is

unnatichandresh: Some years ago Säljö (1979) carried out a simple, but very useful piece of research. He asked a number of adult students what they understood by learning. Their responses fell into five main categories: leadersunali: learning is evolving.unnatichandresh: 1. Learning as a quantitative increase in knowledge. Learning is acquiring information or ‘knowing a lot’.

2. Learning as memorising. Learning is storing information that can be reproduced.

3. Learning as acquiring facts, skills, and methods that can be retained and used as necessary.
4. Learning as making sense or abstracting meaning. Learning involves relating parts of the subject matter to each other and to the real world.

5. Learning as interpreting and understanding reality in a different way. Learning involves comprehending the world by reinterpreting knowledge. (quoted in Ramsden 1992: 26)
unnatineeru: very interesting

unnatichandresh: Now as we know that learning has all these wide meaning... lets talk about what are the benefits of learning...

unnatineeru: no learning no growth

unnatineeru: as Mr. Taneja syas there is no steady state in the world either you grow or decay.

unnatineeru: when you learn continuously - you grow

unnatineeru: when you stop learning you start decaying

unnatineeru: i feel most of the adults start decaying because they stop learning

leaderudayan: i totally agree LEARNING SHOULD BE A LIFE LONG PROCESS

leadersunali: absolutely learning expands your horizons, unleash your potential from within and helps to achieve goals and dreams

unnatichandresh: So the question arises How do you learn?

unnatineeru: i think learning also is important for ones spiritual development

unnatineeru: i learn through reading

unnatineeru: through interaction

unnatineeru: through observation

unnatineeru: through experinece

unnatichandresh: People learn in different ways. And no one has a better learning style than anyone else. Howard Gardner declared in his book Frames of Mind about seven different learning styles; but it's easier to narrow it down to three types of learning . . . we'll call them: 1. Listening learners (Auditory)

2. Seeing learners (Visual)

3. Touch / experience learners (Kinesthetic)
unnatineeru: through not succeding - you are forced to think of ways to become successful leaderudayan: BY 'EPAD'

unnatineeru: can a person have a mixture of all three

unnatichandresh: Yes

unnatichandresh: It's simple really. Think about one of life's earliest lessons - often taught by our mothers: The Stove Can Burn You.

unnatichandresh: 1. Listening learners heard their mother, believed the information, and never touched a stove.

unnatichandresh: 2. Seeing learners watched their brother touch the stove, and never touched it.

unnatichandresh: 3. Experience learners touched the stove; but only once! unnatichandresh: Most people combine the styles of learning

unnatichandresh: Here are some everyday problems you might want to learn about. How would you learn more? Think about them - no way of learning is better than the others. Remember, the way you learn is perfect for you.

unnatineeru: reading books and learning is = listening readers?

leadersunali: according to me when you master your 5 senses and use for learning you get best results

unnatichandresh: Its a combination of both visual and auditory NG

unnatineeru: okay i was trying to think which learner i was? or rather which was my dominant style

unnatichandresh: We vary our learning styles according to situations and experiences we have every day

unnatineeru: can't figure it out - right now

unnatichandresh: Lets talk about this problem: Problem #1:You need to paint a room. How much paint and what supplies do you need?
unnatineeru: paint quantity will depend on th eroom you need paint brush, roller., ladder, clean cloth

unnatineeru: see the room

unnatichandresh: then?

unnatineeru: measure it and work out from a standard formula of how much paint is needed

unnatichandresh: So after figuring out the measurement and everything what you will do NG?

unnatineeru: am i alone or do i have a team

unnatichandresh: if you are alone what you will do?

unnatineeru: switch on some loud music and start painting

unnatichandresh: ok great NG...

unnatichandresh: Now let me share something very interesting

unnatichandresh: Listening Learners might: Call a painter, a friend, or paint store, and ask them for instructions before starting. Might attend a course on painting at the paint store.

unnatichandresh: Seeing Learners might: Look online for answers, read several websites. Go to a bookstore and find books and magazines about home improvement and painting. Go to the paint store and read the back of paint cans. Watch a course at the paint store.

unnatichandresh: Experience Learners might: Go buy a can of paint, a brush, and start painting. If there's not enough paint or you have the wrong brush, you just buy more. Eventually you learn how much paint and what supplies are required.

unnatichandresh: Do you see which learning style is dominating in you now NG?

unnatineeru: experential learning - definately

unnatineeru: makes sense

unnatichandresh: yes...

unnatichandresh: lets talk about another problemleaderudayan: PLAN ACTION ON A WORK SHEET AND THEN START....

leadersunali: 1st i'll visulize a room with color i would like to paint than think how to pain it in a best way, with the best resources

unnatichandresh: Leader Sunali will you call someone for painting?

leadersunali: YES

leaderudayan: TO TAKE KNOWLEDGE I'LL DO IT MYSELF

unnatichandresh: lets talk about one more problem and see which learning style dominates you

unnatineeru: great

unnatichandresh: Your boss wants you to plan a summer party for 25 coworkers and their spouses/partners. You've never planned anything before. How would you learn what to do?unnatichandresh: Thank leader Udayan... now think of this second problem what you will do?unnatineeru: i would just sit with a paper and first chalk out everything needed to be done unnatichandresh: What you will do Leader Sunali?

unnatineeru: i will then run the entire vent in my mind

unnatineeru: then i will run the entire event in my mind

unnatineeru: figure out things that i have missed

unnatineeru: figure out things that can possibly go wrong and aslo plan for back up

unnatichandresh: then NG?

unnatichandresh: What you will do Leader Sunali?

leadersunali: 1st i'll try to know from my boss why he is giving party? and how he want to give party to the coworkers and plan according to his wish...

unnatineeru: maybe i will show my list of work to a couple of people - who know or who can think and take suggections on what is missing?

unnatichandresh: What about you Leader Udayan?

unnatichandresh: ok let us see now what style dominates you

unnatichandresh: Listening Learners might: Call a friend who throws great parties, and cry HELP! Attend an upcoming party, and ask the host lots of questions. Call a party planner in the phone book and try to squeeze some tips out of them. Attend a class on event planning.

unnatichandresh: Seeing Learners might: Search for "party planning tips" through Internet search engines. Look for books about catering, event planning, and party games at the library.

unnatichandresh: Experience Learners might: Dive right in-walk around to coworkers' desks to ask them how many people are coming. Find a place to hold the event, buy lots of food at the local deli and determine in your head if it's enough. Hire a country band you heard at the bar last week, and learn by experience that alcohol melts through paper cups!unnatichandresh: What do you think NG which style Leader Sunali has used for this situation?

unnatineeru: i think i am a experential learner unnatineeru: but at the same time on things which i have no clue

unnatineeru: i usually would turn into a lsitening learner - ask for help and then work it from there

unnatichandresh: Yes... your dominating style is kinesthetic but you do use other styles according to the situations....NG