Learning theories in daily life

I should spend one day thinking about learning theories. How I use them in daily life, e.g. how the influence my learning and my day.

Actually I have to say, that when I remember my school time y, I mostly got confronted with more or less behaviouristic teaching methods. Lots of input, that had to be remembered, critical reflection and self-determination of learning contents and aims was rather rare.

I have to say that I work a lot with the internet. Most of my daily research (where to go tonight, which restaurant, which club, to which office do I have to go to get my passpart, which professor is specified on that topic, etc.) is research in the internet. Most of the time, I try to find out about things that affect and effect me personally, are things that I’m really interested in. I have the possibility to do this research whenever and whereever I like to. I think that this is what a constructivist approach to learning is aimed to: that you become a critical, independent and self-determined learner. I have the impression, that the internet with his mass of resources really helpes me to become this kind of learner.

Online-Session

Our last session was a very new experience for me, because it was the first online seminar I’ve ever took part in. I was really curious how to manage to bring so many people online together and hold a seminar. 

In the beginning, we had some problems to manage that everybody could see and hear the instructors and referees. It was a little bit exhausting to keep in the skype conference, sometimes I got kicked out and had to wait untill I was called again and could join the seminar again. That was a little bit frustrating.

Additionally I found, that it was exhausting to follow the presentations over the whole time of almost two hours without seeing the person, that is speaking. 

What I really liked was the discussion in the skype chat, while the presentation was on. It was quite interesting to discuss everything immediately and direct. 

All in all it was a very interesting and important experience to me.