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Pandemic Times: Learning How to Learn

“No one can do it for you, but you can’t do it for yourself.”

     Learning loss is at an all-time high as a result of the pandemic’s lockdown, which force students to learn in unfamiliar, inaccessible ways. It caused us to switch and settle on a blended type of learning method, which resulted in hardship and difficulties with self-study, it is where the phrase “if you’re smart, you can learn” is denied, and the idea of learning step by step is introduced.\

     Over the last few decades’ science has discovered that learning is a process rather than a byproduct of natural intelligence. It turns out that viewing learning as a method, or system, for developing understanding is far more accurate. Learning does not happen on its own, regardless of your IQ or general aptitude.

     As a society, we need an education that is more comprehensive, and processed that fosters the creativity and problem-solving skills that are essential in the modern economy.

     Learning can be accomplished more quickly with the use of educational help. Education is also how we store and distribute all the knowledge and skills we individually acquire. What it means to live in a society instead of in isolation is that we can benefit from education rather than having to develop new abilities and information on our own from the beginning. However, learning as a process involves more than just our knowledge, scientific findings, and predictions. The omnipresence of the internet and our shifting attention spans mean that facts and memorization of the have lost some of their value in today’s society and the changing function of our “expertise.”

     Recognizing that struggle is often a necessary part of learning keeps us from becoming too discouraged and giving up completely. That is to say, “learning is a process.” A process implies that we can improve our ability to gain expertise through a method, effort, focus and practice.

     It is also true our failures serve as windows of insight, giving us information on how and where we need to develop in order to achieve. In this regard, we can see that failure is essential to success and that it is also acceptable. Not all mistakes are acceptable, but mistakes that come from carelessness and failing to learn from them or from being afraid to try out novel concepts are detrimental and do not result in improvement.

     Having to learn will always require striving, failing reflecting and creating new connections in the brain, which is one of the most crucial things for children to learn. There is no royal path to knowledge, mastery, and achievement that avoids effort and failure. The road to innovation is paved with theories and experiments that failed, despite the fact that were have a tendency to laud scientific innovations as flashes of brilliance.

     Learning is not something that can be done automatically, all learning involves effort, which must be put gradually and one step at a time.