Learning is Contagious

Just two of them met, started talking about music One started singing Another one joined, Two more joined, Now few more joining Learning is contagious …

How children learn can be summed up in two words – by themselves! As they take ownership of their learning and then seek different ways to get it – use different resources, choose different goals, get taught by somebody, seek demonstration, … and the list goes on.

So Children decide what they want to do/learn (content) and how they want to do/learn it (process). Often these goals involve making (a cake), creating (a movie), building (a house of pets), exploring (gardening or poetry), researching (about Ashoka the king), and so on.

Most endeavors span multiple contents, skills, and abilities.

Most of the endeavors necessitate many methods, tools, resources, and interactions. It’s a very dynamic process with peers, facilitators, and anybody else constantly adding value and challenges and sometimes guidance to it.

At the end of the day, I can reflect back on what I did, liked, found tough, want to do more, and so on. Reflection can be on what they did, how they did, resources used people interaction, emotions, etc.

All of the above can be done individually or in groups of any size

This week was no different
Began with people of all ages thinking about what they want to do
Then connecting-collaborating-and creating the learning process for self

When there are choices to be evaluated – the learning happens in the elimination
When there is the freedom to decide – the responsibility comes in for self-growth
When there is reflection – the discovery of self happens