Learning is a lifelong process. Studies show that students were successful when they utilized varied and more effective learning strategies in their learning. What is your learning strategy and why, and how would you incorporate more learning strategies in your learning? Secondly, What teaching strategy do you incorporate in your teaching to facilitate students uniqueness? This episode, inspired and co-produced by co-host, Donte Nelson, explores these questions and more in relation to college and learning success. The Episode is broken up in Four Segments: 1. The Introduction; 2. The Sit Down; 3. Learning Strategies for Learning Success written by D. Nelson, Edited and Narrated by Renaldo McKenzie; & 4. Learning is a Matter of Faith written by D. Nelson, Edited & Narrated by Renaldo McKenzie. First, the episode begins with an inspiration from Phil Thompson singing "All my worship/here's my worship" via YouTube, & a powerful word from Rev. Renaldo who said: "As you think about your life, & where you are and where you are going, one will find that there is an experience or something beyond you, that if you tap into it, you will find the strength and motivation to overcome and to carry on... irrespective of the challenges." Secondly, this introductory segment is then followed by "The Sit Down" where Donte and Renaldo explores Writing, Learning, Pragmatist Dilemmas/ Faith," providing insights into their writing journeys, approaches to learning, faith experiences, dilemmas of life and ways we resolve these or understand them. Some sticking points from this segment: A. Writing is a skill that you develop; B. Writing becomes easy; C. You can't write if you haven't read! D. God has always been with me; E. I don't think I was fully developed & made decisions that angered some people but looking back, there are decisions I made that would not have made now, but I was a young & inexperienced Senior Pastor. F. There's always this issue of privilege between & or within races. G. Church is a part of culture. H. We create the idea of God in a sense, and there are cultural biases and people want to preserve their culture so these attitudes that people have towards things generate fears & hardline positions that may challenge even their own idea of faith. I. Dilemmas are damned if you, damned if you don't but these dilemmas are ultimately guided by and resolved by a type of pragmatist concept of truth where our perceived derived benefit from a position disposes any moral position. Thirdly, this week, I learned that students were successful when they used varied & more effective learning strategies (Simsek and Baladan, 2010 Pp. 36 - 45). the learning strategies which included: 1. Rehearsal is identifying and repeating important concepts , taking personal notes and memorizing; 2. Elaboration, going beyond the given content, using new words, making comparisons, mental imaging and writing questions; 3. Organization - reviewing and restructuring information, creating tables, classifying or listing; 4. Metacognitive - which I describe as "The unexamined life is not worth living," Socrates, this is the reflective/ introspective part where you daily critique, adjust, self/strategies; and 5. Motivational - which deals with reducing stress and redirecting anxiety. In the final segment, Learning involves Faith, A Belief That I Can Do All Things Through Christ! learning is not a heavy-handed or top-down approach that relies on the teacher. In fact, teaching seems to be a facilitative role in learning, especially in online learning, where the students at the collegiate levels have the power to chart their own course. The final take away is the idea that everyone is unique, learning that is geared towards students' uniqueness will lead to greater success. Renaldo is a Doctoral Candidate, Lecturer & Author. Donte is a Psychology major & Digital Creator. Support us at Https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support. Subscribe for free. HTTPS://renaldocmckenzie.com
