Cognitive theory is also interesting because I am usually interested in how people understand things and how to remember and relate old ideas to new ideas to make them very novel. I am both an ESL learner and a non-traditional student, so I have the opportunity to experience a variety of learning styles under the guidance of different professors’ teaching strategies. In order to achieve this, I have put a lot of effort into it. It has been the continual absorption of new information, combining it with previous research, or learning from scratch, training yourself to ignore what I don’t need or don’t care about, and saving the necessary content, and most importantly, realizing how My knowledge and skills have increased over the years. But the question is, is this all that I have done, or is our brain adapted to function?
In any case, it always makes me fascinated by the unconscious way of working, connecting all the points for us to learn. The “black box” function works extremely effectively without permission, which is inspired by the ideas that many teachers train us to learn. This concept is not new. I believe that everyone will encounter this phenomenon. The question is whether I think that cognitive theory has all the tools that really promote overall learning, not as meaningful but holistic learning. I still believe that students should be exposed to the learning experience through all possible opportunities. Teaching methods that are limited to organizing ideas to provide storage and retrieval of information still lack the need for humans to connect with others.
I can understand the function of how the brain gets information in any training environment and what teaching strategies are used to promote the benefits of better long-term memory and information retrieval. I agree to continue to adopt more of these methods, but I can’t say that I define my teaching as cognition. Not only that.