EDCI 5065 Week 1 T2P

Today I learned many things about the abstract concept of "learning" that I believe will benefit me as a future educator. It was very interesting to me to be able to see on paper what my learning preferences are. I always speculated what I believed were my stronger/weaker learning preferences, so it was interesting to see a whole list of preferences and how I rated. As students and teachers, it is important to understand where are strengths and weaknesses are in order to be able to know how information should be relayed best.
It was also beneficial I feel to split up into groups in order to compare other people's learning preferences. It is important for teachers and students to realize that people have different learning preferences as this helps explain why we are all different. It is important to be able to present information in a way that is conducive to multiple learning preferences.
The concept map was also helpful as it made me realize how abstract learning really is. There is no one set definition and everyone views learning differently. Through discussing the idea of learning with my group, I was able to come up with a better understanding of learning through the multiple avenues that learning occurs. The biggest thing for me is that learning is gray. Learning is not cut and dry and encompasses many different definitions.
In all I feel the most important concept I took away from this class today is differences. We all have different learning preferences, different personalities, different demographics etc. After this class I feel that above everything our differences will make us stronger especially as a group as we will have the opportunity to learn from each other's differences, which will make us better educators. When we embrace each other's differences and begin to learn from them, it will help us reach our students in different ways.

If a teacher employs a wide variety of learning activities throughout the daily lesson, then a wide variety of learning preferences will also be met which is beneficial to the students because no student learns in the same manner as another so in this way students will have many opportunities to connect to content.