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Week 5-How to learn?-(23.04-30.04)


How to learn?

The greatest gift of humanity is the ability to make mistakes and their greatest wisdom is learning from them. Have you ever considered failure not as misfortune but an opportunity for success? Diana Laufenberg highlights the significance of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process.


Have you met with a teacher like Diana Laufenberg during your learning process?
What do you think about the theory of learning from mistakes?
Do you have your own way to learn?

Comments

Lukasz Mroczek said…
I’ve never had an opportunity to meet with that kind of a teacher at school but I was lucky enough to meet one at private lessons. It was the best teacher met in my life with great knowledge about the subject he was teaching but also about other things and what’s most important for me – life. We even became friends despite the fact that there was about 20 years difference in our ages.
To be honest, I think that learning from mistakes is the best way to teach and I often use that theory but it’s also the most ‘expensive’ one. I’ve found an interesting way to learn from mistakes that other people make. I just observe them and their mistakes and then I make my own conclusions. It’s ‘cheap’ but also very good.

Jakub Nietupski said…
I haven't met teacher exactly like Diana but I admire her determination and passion for teaching. Especially the opinion that modern teachers have to completely change their approach since the beginning of internet era - when the information is extremely easy to access it is crucial to create space where students can try out their ideas and knowledge instead of being constantly tested.
Learning from mistakes is good but learning form successes is even better - instead of making students fail let's help them progress in their skills in such a way that they feel comfortable to test out small improvements in their knowledge structures.
I love learning by doing projects - that way I am able to see the practical value of things I learn and it's extremely motivating.
Unknown said…
I definitely didn't have a teacher like her. As she mentioned in the talk, most teachers do not accept failures from their students and that's the reason why so many kids are unmotivated to learn new things. The other major problem with some teachers is that they don't show you how you can use your new knowledge in practice.
Learning from mistakes is a crucial part for us to understand while we are students because if we don't do this it will be harder for us to get used to failures and be more productive in our lives later. Mistakes make us review our actions, thus forcing us to make some corrections or change the whole approach to the problem. Unfortunately, no teacher can teach you this. You can only learn this in process of self-teaching. And I agree with saying "You are your best teacher" because you won't find any person who knows you better than yourself.
I've recently have tried lots of different ways to learn. Some of them were effective and some were not. I personally prefer 'hands-on' approach - learning by doing. But sometimes I combine multiple technics depending on the subject I'm trying to learn.
Anna Koca said…
I have met several teachers like Diana, but unfortunately most of them were uninterested bullies - wrong people in wrong positions. Unfortunately, schooling system in Poland is still very flawed. Even in the global scale, teaching has stopped improving since the beginning of XX century. Someone has recently published video that the classroom of 1890s and classrom of 2010s look awfully similar.
Learning from mistakes is a good way to learn, however, a painful one. Sometimes the mistakes you make cost you more than the learning and knowledge you get. If you have to lose your wife or husband to understand that you could have been a better partner, than is it really worth it?
My best way to learn is through visual diagrams. I like to have everything neatly put down on paper and divided into schemes. Maybe I am a visual learner - I don't know - it all gets much quicker to my head then.
Unknown said…
Thank you for your comment. I agree with your observations. It cost a lot but later we have new knowledge for all live.
Unknown said…
I haven't met. Personally, I would like to meet such a teacher, but unfortunately I didn't have such an opportunity. Maybe in the future it will be possible to have such happiness.

Absolutely. It's nice if someone shows us this should be done correctly. But of course, unless we make a mistake, we simply will not learn. We shouldn't be afraid of mistakes.

I don't have my way to learn. I try many ways. There are many ways to learn the Internet and often try new things. I often learn to try to spread the material for a few days and learn a different thing every day
I had 2 teachers in the school with the approach that Diana has and I should admit the fact that I got to know the most from them and I still love the subjects they had been teaching me to by the time I graduated. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of such teachers in student’s willing to learn. I think that it’s crucial to meet at least 1 such teacher as soon as possible because it will let you understand the way the educational process should look like.

For me learning from mistakes is still the best way of learning. It allows me to make an attempt on my own to solve the problem, to understand all the difficulties, try to invent a creative solution and so forth. But the most important is that in the end I will get the solution and will be able to analyze it and improve myself. That’s the real purpose of studying.

I can’t say I have my own unique way to learn. I would rather say that my way to learn is combination or permutation of some most famous ways to learn especially learning from other’s mistakes.
Vladlen Kyselov said…
I have met lots of good teachers in my learning process and I think everyone just has his own study program and it works in different way, unless teacher really has no passion for teaching students. I respect every teacher, because for me it is extremely hard to teach someone something new. When I teach someone for me it seems very simple, thats why it is hard to find the unique way to the student. Learning on mistakes is a good, but sometimes painful practice. My parents always told me to learn from others mistakes, but for real I am learning well only on my own mistakes and the more painful mistake is the more valuable lesson I get from it. I am trying to find more experienced people and ask them everything that seems interesting for me. If something is not interesting for me the only way to learn it is just study it until it will stuck in my head like songs that always get stuck in our heads.
Unknown said…
I don't recall meeting any teacher whose approach would be close to Diana's. I have met great teachers though.

I consider it as a fact and everyone learns from mistakes even if the person is not willing to accept that.

My way to learn is to start learning by doing, then I supply myself with some amount of research and theoretical knowledge and finally I try to reach higher levels of abstraction in what I'm doing. Time given to practice and learning is a very important factor.
Illia Shynder said…
I had such teacher in a school. And that was really one of the best teachers. And also I was talking with very different teachers. And I noticed, that if you start to ask and show your interest in subject, all teacher might suddenly become very good. Like, even those, who have already disappointed in life can still teach you a lot and tell you a lot, if they see that you want it.
I think, that this theory is quite effective, but my grandma told me even more interesting theory. She taught me to learn on other's mistakes, and that helps even more)
Reason why we learn when make mistakes is that we know in future why better to do some things in this way and not in another. We know pluses and minuses and can make decisions. Studying in school build on way that someone has already crossed and we know always mostly best solution but when I learn by myself I will find more aspects of that discipline because I will make more mistakes.
Unknown said…
Honestly, I've never met a teacher like her. All the teachers I had, were completely different.
I think that the method of learning from mistakes is the best one and that it is applied by itself. Only training can help you become better. After the mistakes we can learn what not to do next time and what we can do better.
Marcin Górski said…
To be honest, I have never met any teacher like Diana and it's something new for me.
Yes, I think that learning from mistakes is very good way. Even if you will do something wrong, you can do it again with awareness of wrong decision.
I have never thought about my best way to learn. Maybe practice? I can spend a lot of time to learn something and I hate to stop without success.
Unknown said…
All of my teachers were rather conventional in their approach to teaching. I don’t really think that speaker’s approach to teaching was all that revolutionary. Although I agree that we are all too often taught how to do something instead of being given opportunity to figure it out by our self. However, that shouldn’t be primary focus of educational system. Learning to innovate isn’t constant process and it’s important to learn the fastest way possible all the basic knowledge. While suggested approach is more time consuming and in essence is teaching some unnecessary skills.
I think that with time we all figure out our best way to learn things but the real problem for teachers still is how to properly test that knowledge.
Unknown said…
Learning from mistakes seems like a great idea but it would require actual interest and participation from student and from my experience it's rarely that great and usually you just do a minimal amount of work. Also burden of failing in our culture usually punished and our parents don't really understand that and I believe it would pressure students a lot.
Can't say I have some specific ways of learning. I always try to understand why something is the way it is rather then memorize a lot of encyclopedia knowledge.
Unknown said…
Thanks for your coment. I agree with you that teachers should use new technologies because of intergenerational gap.
In my opinion projects are also great form of learning. It's not so sad like mistakes :)
Unknown said…
Thank you for your answer. I have similar observations connected with teachers who don't show how we can use our knowledge. It's really bad because we miss really quickly only theoretical knowledge.
What's more it's very interesting to try combine various technics of learning. Maybe i will try it also.
Unknown said…
1. I have never met any teacher like Diana on my education path.
2. In my opinion it is always a good thing to take advantage of advices from more experienced people and try to learn on others’ mistakes. This can save us a lot of troubles and let us be more effective by avoiding certain mistakes. However, the most valuable knowledge always comes from our own experiences. When we are trying new things by ourselves, as soon as we see outcomes of our actions we can assess if it was a correct way to solve certain problem.
3. My approach to learning new things is quite traditional as I like to have solid theoretical understanding of a particular area combined with applying theory to practice in an incremental fashion. It means that I always start with possessing some theoretical knowledge and as soon as I have enough information, I try to build some simple, working solution. Then, I repeat the whole process, so I get more knowledge and try to improve my solution accordingly.
Unknown said…
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Unknown said…
Thank you for comment. I'm tottaly agree with you about polish school system. I have younger sister and when i see how now it looks in her school i can say that is worse and worse.
If it comes about learning by mistakes, it's good point of view. It depends about what situation we are talking about.
Unknown said…
Thank you for comment. I'm tottaly agree with you about polish school system. I have younger sister and when i see how now it looks in her school i can say that is worse and worse.
If it comes about learning by mistakes, it's good point of view. It depends about what situation we are talking about.
Unknown said…
Thanks for answer. I have similar feelings when I memorize my teacher from high school. He was teaching me history of art and I think that it was the best course in my high school because of him. Sometimes I think about him and his trying to make history of art big adventure for us.
Unknown said…
I agree with this point of view that we firts should learn theoretical. I have experience of doing new things in my work and I know if I don't have theoretical lessons at classes I don't be able do this new thing.
Unknown said…
I have similar observations about showing interest of subject then even the worst teacher can show his passion.
Unknown said…
1. I always consider the error from the positive side. Firstly, because I believe that everything that is done is for the best, then if I make mistakes, then I do everything right. My grandmother said that you need to see what mistakes others make and prevent them, but I believe that every mistake must be experienced firsthand to learn the lesson.
2. No, I did not have such teachers in school, always gave clean information and required her to retell (most often even did not need to understand).
3. My way of studying is to show interest, to look for sources of information, to communicate with people more conscious, to analyze and act. I'm not obsessed with mistakes and failures, they make me more literate.
Unknown said…
I've met and learn from a lot of diffrent teachers, and I can tell, that the method of learning from own mistakes is the best one - doesn't matter if You succed or failed. What's matter is that You survived the lesson - now You can collect your experience and learn from it. After time, we can have diffrent view on the same topic, the key is to look at it from another perspective.
As a tip, I can tell You, that having a good friend, that know You almost as good as You know yourself is a game changer - listen to them and You'll be surprise how much value they can give You
NOt exactly but in highschool I had history teacher and that men was very passionate and determined to teach us in clever way no only from books , but he was taking us for a trips and teach us there. It was pretty fun and helpful.
Yes, I think that learning from mistakes is very valuable lesson but it could be dangerous sometimes. Sometimes mistakes could led to injury or psychological problem so I would be careful about this way of learning.
Yes at first I create a cheatsheet of topics I should learn for the test. Then I am trying to remember all essential subjects after that I am repeating things I've learnt.
Peter Clemenza said…
Have you met with a teacher like Diana Laufenberg during your learning process?
Never had, but I do not regret it. Ms Laufenberg would surely show you some german learning process. Don't judge me by that. My grandfather once get a pretty good electric kettle from
East Germany and when he was told that its german he throw it out the window (or you could say he commited act of
defenestration)

What do you think about the theory of learning from mistakes?
I think that germans are making use of it: They lost two wars, and finally they still managed to conquer Europe.

Do you have your own way to learn?
Yes, Confucius once said:
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Quit talking, start making it.
Have you met with a teacher like Diana Laufenberg during your learning process?e
Yes, it was the best teacher in my life. It was a strong and open-minded teacher of maths in my college. Thanks god she gave me and my friends a huge motivation to move forward.
I think that there is a theory of learning from mistakes but not in a way the video told us. You must understand what you need to change to prevent mistakes from the past and thats it. I have my own way to learn but i don't want to share it with you :)
Iman Masjedi said…
I think that people misunderstand the "learning from mistakes" approach. It's not that you have to fail in order to success or learn. First, it supposes that you don't know a little or you just know so little about the problem itself, like a new problem to solve, that you don't have instructions to solve it, or it just have never be solved. So, failures out of this context just doesn't count. So, "learning from mistakes" what really means I think it's that you have to TRY.
No not really.
Most of the time life is the best teacher u can get. There is nothing more teaching than a failure or a loss. Once we make mistake that has costed us something ex: time, money, relationship, we add that experience like scar to our skin and wear it with pride being taught a lesson of life. Sometimes letting students/ other people fail first is not the best idea it all depends on ones strength of the will and character.
Yes i do my way to learn is : Finding someone passionate about the topic and talk to them, listen to their stories, listen about the topic read about them and what they have to say. There is nothing better for me than a passionate teacher and u can make a lot of friends along the way that can help you out.
Unknown said…
1. I have met a teachers with such approach to learn like Diana Laufenberg but only on private lessons. I don't know why but I can't say the same about teachers from my public schools.

2. I think that is is the best way of learning because we learn much more faster when we learn by experiences than only from pure theory.

3. I usually learn with headphones and classic music which isolates me from whole world and nothing and nobody can disrupt my time for learning.
Illia Lukisha said…
I've never met a teacher like Diana, but i want to meet a person with this methodology how to learn. I believe in a theory of learning mistakes but i'm not a guy who follows it. I don't have specific ways to learn something but there are a lot of methods that are really helpful. And they are all simple you don't need to waste a lot of time to learn them.
Unknown said…
I’ve never had an opportunity to meet with that kind of a teacher in my life, but I've met many people who were devoted to what they were doing. I have my way of learning I've developed to be able to follow my dreams. I work with people who are much smarter and experienced than me, that's the best way to the quick and efficient method of learning for me. In this scenario, after one year you get used to one of the most important skills I've learned in the last ten years of my life in my opinion. The fact that you are capable of doing and learning everything and should not be scared when you are faced up with a task you have zero experience. It takes time to understand this, but it's life-changing. Unfortunately, I believe there is no "one perfect way of learning", you have to find your own - the one which is the most efficient for you.
Patryk Górski said…
Nope. I thought that teachers like her do not exist :D

It's good. You know what you did wrong, and you are trying to not repeat that mistakes. I like it.

I do not have any special ways to learn. I'm doing it like everyone does.

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