HOW CHILDREN EXPERIENCE LEARNING

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How Children Experience Learning

Children have different ways of learning. However, the essential thing is that children get their initial information and learning from their parents, and later as they begin to walk and talk, they get more education from schools. Therefore, it is always difficult for children to learn, even though most people see it as an easy way to learn. For instance, during the exercise of writing or drawing using a hand that is not generally used for writing, I realized how hard it is for children to learn since I felt it very difficult. This comes despite the different theories which have been proposed. For example, Noam Chomsky’s language acquisition theory states that children are born with the innate ability to understand language. This means that children are already endowed with the knowledge and do not have to learn everything from blank. Therefore if this is the case, the question comes in what about other aspects of the child? This paper, thus, explores learning in children and explains the different processes involved in learning.

How was it like writing in your non-dominant hand?

First of all, it felt entirely off, and there was an enormous temptation that I should shift and write in my dominant hand. However, I did not change hands; I continued writing in my non-dominant hand until I finished. It was complicated at first since my mind was not used to that handwriting. Therefore, there must have had been a lot of change in the brain whereby the whole body was involved in the writing, not just the hand.

Was it easy, fun, frustrating?

Writing using my non-dominant hand was frustrating. When a person is not used to doing something, it becomes frustrating; however, a person can keep on trying until they perfectly do what they are expected to do with ease. Therefore, writing using the non-dominant hand was frustrating because the activity had to force my brain and my writing and the other party involved in writing, like the muscles, to adapt to the new change.

1.3 How does this change your opinion of children at this age and their writing/drawing abilities?

For the young children who keep on trying to write and fail, I understand them in a better manner since I have done the exercise. It is clearly understood how it is difficult to write and learn how to write for a person like the children who have never written or drawn before. Therefore the experience of my left-hand writing made me change my view and opinion towards the young ones. This is because understanding how difficult it is, instead of criticizing the young ones I might interact with or even those at home, I will encourage them even if they draw something that is not perfect since the learning process is complicated.

The head and neck in wiring are essential, and therefore the writing experience explains why the young develop these muscles at first, then they set the other muscles. So, for example, when a child is writing, they tend to lean forward and focus their eyes on what they are writing, making their neck muscles more developed.