Is learning linear?
September 29, 2006
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| Photo taken by: keithcarver. | |
| On the first day of class, I said that people don’t learn linearly and thus I wouldn’t be teaching that way. Of course, I didn’t mean that I thought we should carry on our scholastic dialogue in the manner of an absurdist play. What does the term linearity suggest? If learning isn’t linear, what shape might it be? What have we read that offers insight into how people process information?Keep this idea of linearity in mind as you read Ch2 & 3 of Freedman for this week. |
October 3, 2006 at 4:06 am
I believe learning can be linear but is not limited to that visual expression. I believe learning to be a web. There are lines and curves and overlaps connecting all different types of information. Some of the lines can continue to branch out in a linear manner but the root of the line is still part of the web. Being connected to that web of knowledge connects to Freedman’s Chapter 4 by learning most readily information that is already familiar.
The image of a web also connects to Freeman’s Chapter 2. On page 34 Freedman discusses how many postmodernist films are not presented in a linear fashion. Instead the information is presented in such a way that it is necessary for the audience to create connections between the information portrayed by the film.