that is a reason I go for master school directly after I finished my bachelor degree. Despite my religion-value reason, I committed to myself as a long-life learner and will back to society as a scholar. A bonus: I never expect to be a graduate student and full-time research assistant would be this fun. I’m studying and I got paid, amazing job, isn’t it?
It is still a long process until I can finally achieve my goal in my academic career. My research papers are still under review, once rejected, one is still on a process. It is been 1 year since I start my master, but somehow I keep regretting how slow I am. See, it is still a far process until I can become a uni professor or any educator. To contribute back through education. So what else I can do besides keep writing my research papers and wait until it will be published?
This morning, I read How People Learn II: Learners, Context, and Cultures for my literature review part. In conclusions 5–2, I found some awakening sentences:
“Learners routinely generate their own novel understanding of the information they are accumulating and productively extend their knowledge by making logical connections between pieces of information. This capacity to generate novel understanding allows learners to use their knowledge to generalize, categorize, and solve problems”
and conclusions 5–3:
“The learning strategies for which there is evidence of effectiveness include ways to help students retrieve information and encourage them to summarize and explain material they are learning, as well as ways to space and structure the presentation of material. Effective strategies to create organized and distinctive knowledge structures encourage learners to go beyond the explicit material by elaborating and to enrich their mental representation of information by calling up and applying it in various contexts”
I know the meaningful learning theory by David Aussuble, as a science education major students, we keep asking how we can implement those theories on our teaching strategies? But we rarely think about how we implement it in our daily life, too.
Why don’t you start to share what you learn & read, as an implementation of strategies of your meaningful learning as well as your goals to become an educator? What else you can do? You can do many. Let’s not take this free internet for granted. Start from here. Let’s share.
So yeah, welcome to my medium.