Just Spell It.

L-E-A-R-N-I-N-G

This is a familiar word for all of us. Since the pre-elementary grades, our parents want us to learn. This word always reminds me to spare time for myself to gain knowledge about the lessons in school. However, it broadens my understanding of learning after I read the first module of our course "Theories of Learning".

I defined learning as an unending process and product in acquiring knowledge of certain things through experiences. I believe that this process of moulding ourselves through soliciting thoughts, ideas, and perceptions in life won't end. Every moment of our lives and every second of our experiences are in the process of learning different things in life.

I also learned that it is not just a process but it is also a product. A product created through the learning process can also be called learning.

There are actually a lot of ways on how people learn. In an online article, Cherry (2018)  (Retrieved from https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-learning-2795332 ) shares her insights into the learning environment that could be classical conditioning where we learn through our associations, operant conditioning where we learn through reinforcements and punishments, and observation where we can learn without being conditioned, reinforced and punished.

Lastly, I learned the importance of theories in the learning process. As an educator and researcher, I really thought beforehand that theories are just conceptions of the different scholars in the world. However, I learned this time that it is an essential thing in the learning environment. Theories serve as a guide in understanding and analyzing the things. I now fully understand why we need to find theories in our research studies and why we need to have a theoretical framework. Indeed, to understand learning, we need to understand first the theories and what are those about.

Because we cannot spell the first word of this article without understanding theories.